Social media platform X has agreed to settle a suit accusing it of owing workers $500 million in severance after Elon Musk took the reins of the company while it was still named Twitter, the two workers suing and the entity told the Ninth Circuit.
Federal district judges in various circuits are still questioning whether parties in wage and hour cases need court or U.S. Department of Labor approval of settlements a decade after the Second Circuit said approval was necessary, and alternatives to that process have developed.
New York State’s prenatal leave law is at the vanguard of paid leave progress and with New York City’s added obligations, employers in the Empire State should remember to follow the more worker-friendly requirement. Here, Law360 explores four do’s and don’ts of New York’s robust prenatal leave landscape.
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Social media platform X has agreed to settle a suit accusing it of owing workers $500 million in severance after Elon Musk took the reins of the company while it was still named Twitter, the two workers suing and the entity told the Ninth Circuit.
Federal district judges in various circuits are still questioning whether parties in wage and hour cases need court or U.S. Department of Labor approval of settlements a decade after the Second Circuit said approval was necessary, and alternatives to that process have developed.
New York State’s prenatal leave law is at the vanguard of paid leave progress and with New York City’s added obligations, employers in the Empire State should remember to follow the more worker-friendly requirement. Here, Law360 explores four do’s and don’ts of New York’s robust prenatal leave landscape.
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August 21, 2025
The Sixth Circuit on Thursday told a lower court to reassess a fired USPS employee's medical leave suit alleging the agency illegally faulted him for sickle cell anemia-related absences, saying the trial judge erred by using a doctor's estimate to cap his time off.
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August 21, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge has granted American Airlines' bid to revoke class certification in a suit alleging the airline unlawfully denied pilots pay and profit-sharing credit for time spent on military leave, agreeing the case raises too many individual questions.
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August 21, 2025
Former players accusing Major League Baseball and its teams of colluding to pay minor leaguers "poverty level" wages are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case and overturn baseball's century-old exemption from antitrust law.
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August 21, 2025
A Connecticut state court's findings that a steakhouse at the Foxwoods Resort Casino was not liable for untipped work should have dismantled a class of tipped servers claiming unpaid wages, the steakhouse argued.
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August 21, 2025
Aramark Services Inc. workers asked a California federal court Thursday to give the initial sign-off on a deal to end a proposed class action alleging the food services company made them work through meal and breaks in addition to other wage and hour violations.
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August 21, 2025
Colorado would exempt overtime and tipped income from state taxation under a proposed 2026 ballot measure advanced by the state panel.
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August 21, 2025
Employees of a contractor providing security at a U.S. Department of Homeland Security campus told a D.C. federal judge the company can't use a union agreement to escape allegations it's violating the district's wage and overtime laws.
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August 21, 2025
A software developer does not owe a former employee $60,000 in incentives she accused it of failing to pay her after she resigned, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled, finding the amount was not considered part of her wages because it was contingent on continued employment.
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August 21, 2025
Software startup Catamorphic has agreed to settle a proposed class action brought by three former sales employees in Massachusetts and California who say the company failed to pay them overtime and engaged in other "widespread, repeated and consistent" violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, a Wednesday court filing says.
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August 20, 2025
After the parties reported a settlement in principle, a Connecticut federal judge has agreed to dismiss claims that a Greenwich hair salon underpaid an employee's wages, failed to pay overtime and discriminated against the worker because she is from Poland.
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August 20, 2025
A Washington 5G provider has agreed to pay $1.2 million to end a proposed class and collective action in federal court accusing it of automatically deducting unpaid time for lunch breaks and not including per diems in workers' overtime calculations, a former technician said Wednesday.
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August 20, 2025
A Florida appeals court on Wednesday revived a hospice worker's disability discrimination suit, ruling that her claims are not time-barred because the Florida Commission on Human Relations has not yet officially given her notice about her claim that would conclude the administrative process.
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August 20, 2025
Lockheed Martin failed to compensate employees for the time they need to walk from and to time clocks at its 350,000-square-foot Archbald facility in Pennsylvania, a former employee claimed in a proposed class action now in federal court.
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August 20, 2025
The Ninth Circuit granted Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc.'s motion to stay the mandate of the appellate court's opinion in a case about the nitty-gritty of collective action certification while the restaurant chain seeks U.S. Supreme Court review of the decision.
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August 20, 2025
Loeb & Loeb LLP is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in an Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP employment litigator as a partner in its San Francisco office.
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August 20, 2025
A farmworkers union cannot halt the U.S. Department of Labor from replacing 2020 prevailing wages with 2022 wage-survey results, a Washington federal judge ruled, saying the alleged harm is self-inflicted because the later wages were published following the union's actions.
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August 20, 2025
Two investigators with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service on paid leave after signing deferred resignation agreements claim the U.S. government has unlawfully cut law enforcement availability pay they are entitled to.
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August 19, 2025
A Chicagoland hospital network pressured its nurses to work late and through their breaks without pay because it was so understaffed, a group of current and former nurses claimed in Illinois federal court, looking to recoup the pay they say they lost through a wage and hour lawsuit.
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August 19, 2025
GEO Group told the Ninth Circuit it plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh into a case that has it on the hook for $23.2 million after paying immigration detainees $1 a day for the work they performed behind bars.
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August 19, 2025
Fanatics LLC and a digital collectibles company knocked out part of a suit from a former executive who said he was fired for seeking parental leave, with a New York federal judge nixing his retaliation claim but letting allegations that the companies interfered with his leave rights move ahead.
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August 19, 2025
An operator of Michigan pizza restaurants will not face sanctions in a wage suit over payroll records a group of drivers claimed were missing because the company was not aware the documents were lost, a Michigan federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
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August 19, 2025
A North Carolina federal judge pushed into arbitration a quality control worker's overtime suit against a clean energy manufacturing company, ruling that the arbitration agreement the company presented to him while he was a putative member in a related case is valid.
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August 18, 2025
An attempt by state lawmakers in New Jersey to halt a proposed ABC test demonstrates a pathway to fighting independent contractor status analyses, after opponents have taken different approaches in other states.
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August 18, 2025
National Freight has agreed to pay $5.75 million to end an almost 10-year-long suit in which a class of truckers claimed they were misclassified as independent contractors, the workers said, urging a New Jersey federal court to greenlight the deal.
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August 18, 2025
For the second time this month, Stone Hilton PLLC has asked a federal court to trim a former employee's lawsuit, saying her allegations of sexual harassment and intentional infliction of emotional distress do not rise to the level of "severe or pervasive" or "extreme and outrageous" as the law requires.