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March 30, 2026
A marketing company misclassified employees working in a property management office on its CEO's private estate as independent contractors, denying them overtime wages, according to a proposed collective action filed Monday in Florida federal court.
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March 30, 2026
A jury will have to determine whether Flowers Foods and two other entities misclassified two distributors as independent contractors who created their own company to deliver goods, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Monday, saying it's not clear the drivers were in business only for themselves.
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March 30, 2026
Home services platform Angi Inc. failed to pay employees for off-the-clock work performed to meet "aggressive" sales quotas and other performance metrics, according to a proposed collective action filed in Colorado federal court.
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March 30, 2026
Boeing has not paid its workers for the time they spent traveling between a remote parking lot and its 787 Dreamliner manufacturing facility, resulting in unpaid overtime wages, according to a proposed class and collective action complaint brought in South Carolina federal court.
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March 30, 2026
A healthcare company will pay $300,000 to end a proposed class and collective action alleging it failed to pay workers for off-the-clock work, including on-call shifts, and automatically deducted meal breaks, according to a New York federal judge's order.
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March 27, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its March oral arguments session by hearing a nationwide class's blockbuster challenge to President Donald Trump's limited view of birthright citizenship, as well as a dispute over federal courts' authority to confirm or vacate arbitration awards in cases they've formerly overseen.
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March 27, 2026
Participants in the Salvation Army's rehabilitation programs who worked at the organization's thrift stores with no pay showed that there is a common question over whether they are employees under state laws, an Illinois federal judge said, signing off on three classes.
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March 27, 2026
A medical courier company misclassified its couriers as independent contractors and failed to pay them overtime despite routinely requiring more than 40 hours of work per week, according to a suit filed Friday in Connecticut federal court.
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March 27, 2026
The gender and race pay gap in California remains an issue among private sector employers despite the state having robust equal pay laws, the California Civil Rights Department said.
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March 27, 2026
In the next week, attorneys should watch for arguments in a suit by around 30 workers alleging Santa Clara County had a discriminatory COVID vaccination policy. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in the state.
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March 27, 2026
The U.S. arm of a Danish pharmaceutical company has told a North Carolina federal judge to throw out a former director's "extraordinary and conspiratorial" lawsuit claiming he was fired for expressing concerns about his employer's use of piglets at an anniversary party.
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March 27, 2026
A group of nurses can proceed as a class in a suit accusing a healthcare company of excluding holiday premiums from their pay when they worked overtime, a Colorado federal judge has ruled.
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March 27, 2026
A New York federal judge ruled that Uber drivers didn't sufficiently engage in interstate commerce, so they must arbitrate their claims that the ride-hailing company made illegal deductions from their wages.
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March 27, 2026
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP said Friday it has bolstered its labor and employment practice with the addition of a former Baker McKenzie attorney in Miami.
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March 27, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule that could drive roughly $6.5 billion in additional annual wages to foreign workers by overhauling how prevailing pay is calculated across high-skilled visa programs.
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March 26, 2026
A sushi chef suing a Connecticut restaurant on claims of wage-and-hour violations wants the defendant sanctioned for allowing a nonparty, who is the defendant in a separate but similar lawsuit, to attend a Jan. 19 deposition, allegedly in an attempt to gain a litigation advantage.
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March 26, 2026
Employees alleging a property management company stiffed them on overtime wages cannot proceed as a collective for now, a North Carolina federal judge has ruled, finding that the current record is insufficient to determine whether they are similarly situated.
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March 26, 2026
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson vetoed a City Council measure that sought to freeze the scheduled increases tipped workers are set to receive to be phased out of the subminimum wage, saying it was his "duty to veto" an ordinance that would have financially harmed tipped workers.
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March 26, 2026
The filing of Fair Labor Standards Act suits edged upward in 2025, with New York serving as a hotbed for such cases, and the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division recovered more back wages than it has in any year since 2019, a Seyfarth Shaw LLP report showed.
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March 26, 2026
A former research coordinator cannot snag conditional collective certification in his suit seeking unpaid overtime against a Bronx medical college and several related entities, a New York federal judge ruled Thursday, saying he failed to show that study and research coordinators were similarly situated.
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March 26, 2026
Choice Hotels and a hotel operator have urged a federal judge in Washington state to toss a collective and class action alleging workers were denied breaks and sick leave, arguing the complaint failed to show the hospitality giant was actually the workers' employer and improperly included claims beyond the court's jurisdiction.
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March 26, 2026
Haitian nationals accusing meatpacking giant JBS USA Food Co. and a subsidiary of race-based discrimination and numerous labor violations have told a Colorado federal court their lawsuit should survive JBS' dismissal bid, arguing that they've sufficiently established an employer relationship with both.
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March 26, 2026
A Texas federal judge entered a roughly $21.2 million judgment against a steakhouse chain and its owner in a lawsuit brought by hundreds of workers alleging unpaid wages and misappropriated tips, according to a court filing.
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March 25, 2026
Aviation services provider Swissport USA Inc. violated Washington wage laws by depriving its employees of their overtime pay and requiring them to remain on duty throughout meal and rest breaks, according to a proposed class action filed in state court.
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March 25, 2026
TD Bank failed to pay employees for overtime work they did before and after their shifts, a former customer service call representative alleges in a proposed collective and class action filed in New Jersey federal court.