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March 19, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Thursday declined to dismiss a suit from drivers alleging Risinger Bros. Transfer Inc. misclassified them as independent contractors, saying the complaint sufficiently alleges they had an employer-employee relationship.
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March 19, 2026
A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge certified a class of military reservists who sued the U.S. government to recover the difference between active duty pay and pay received for their federal civilian jobs, finding there are enough reservists with common claims.
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March 19, 2026
A Delaware federal court ruled Thursday that six former Twitter employees cannot subpoena five law firms that represented the social media company in connection with its acquisition by Elon Musk, rejecting the employees' "conclusory allegations" that the company and Musk used the firms to make false promises of severance benefits.
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March 19, 2026
An Ohio federal judge rejected a proposed $30,000 settlement to a wage and hour suit against a group of home care staffing agencies Thursday, saying the settlement paperwork isn't clear enough to determine whether the deal is fair.
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March 19, 2026
Performers accusing an adult livestreaming site of misclassifying them as independent contractors and underpaying them can proceed as a class, a federal judge has ruled, and attorneys with McOmber McOmber & Luber PC and Hayber McKenna & Dinsmore LLC will serve as class counsel.
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March 19, 2026
The Delaware Supreme Court has revived key claims brought by a former investment firm banker, ruling that a lower court went too far in blocking his case based on earlier findings that he was not a partner at the firm.
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March 19, 2026
New Jersey wage and hour protections require employers to pay employees regardless of their immigration status, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday, finding that state law doesn't clash with federal immigration law prohibiting the employment of immigrants living in the country without legal permission.
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March 19, 2026
A maintenance worker launched a proposed class action alleging wage violations in Colorado state court against a major meatpacking company as a strike against the employer continues.
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March 19, 2026
A Columbus-area home health services company will pay $975,000 to end a lawsuit accusing it of misclassifying its program managers as exempt from overtime, according to an Ohio federal court filing.
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March 19, 2026
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state's minimum wage law doesn't incorporate the limitations on compensable preshift activities found in federal law, answering the Seventh Circuit's call for help determining whether Amazon must pay workers for time they spent undergoing preliminary COVID-19 screenings.
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March 19, 2026
University of Colorado Health urged a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class and collective action alleging that its time-rounding policy shorted workers on pay, saying it was not the former workers' employer and its policy complies with the law, according to a federal court filing.
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March 18, 2026
A Connecticut sushi restaurant has told a federal judge that it should win a chef's lawsuit alleging unpaid overtime, because he is a serial filer of baseless claims, working with his attorneys at Troy Law Group PLLC to try to secure unjustified payouts from multiple employers, and he was actually overpaid.
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March 18, 2026
An Illinois appellate court had choice words Tuesday for the Illinois Department of Labor's argument that an amendment to the Wage Payment and Collection Act deems certain corporate officers "employers" that can be held personally liable for employees' unpaid wages, calling the agency's interpretation "legally unsound" and "unjust."
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March 18, 2026
The operator of 40 IHOPs in California can push workers' individual wage and hour claims into arbitration, a California federal judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting the employees' arguments that they didn't remember signing the pact or that it was only in English.
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March 18, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge agreed to transfer a former C-suite executive's unpaid wages case against a Canadian cancer testing and treatment company to Virginia, where its U.S. headquarters are, finding the Old Dominion is the better venue.
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March 18, 2026
A long-running suit seeking to recover wages from Home Depot over its now-defunct time-rounding practice can partially continue despite the company sending payments to employees, an Oregon federal judge said, ruling there is an open question over whether some workers were fully repaid.
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March 18, 2026
An oil field services company failed to pay workers for extensive travel and off-the-clock work, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
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March 18, 2026
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has brought on seven lawyers at its Colorado Springs office from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner to enhance its sports law, intellectual property, employment and litigation practices.
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March 18, 2026
A staffing company and an urgent care tapped to provide services at New York City migrant facilities will pay $12,000 to end a proposed class and collective action brought by two hourly employees claiming they were improperly paid, according to a federal court filing.
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March 18, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor has sent a proposed rule laying out the Trump administration's test for joint employer status to the White House for review, teeing up the regulation for release.
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March 17, 2026
K&L Gates LLP has added a labor and employment partner with experience at Protection Law Group and Littler Mendelson to its Labor, Employment and Workplace Safety practice in Los Angeles, according to an announcement Tuesday.
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March 17, 2026
Trucking firm Swift Transportation urged a Washington federal court to reject a drivers' class action accusing the company of shorting them on overtime pay, arguing that drivers are exempt from Washington state's overtime laws and don't qualify for pay while off duty or in a truck's sleeper berth.
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March 17, 2026
A former database administrator who accused Express Scripts and two other companies of misclassifying him as an independent contractor reached a $30,000 deal with the entities to settle his federal law claim, the parties told a New York federal court.
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March 17, 2026
Recently introduced legislation would pave the way for New York City to have the highest minimum wage of any locality in the country. Council Member Sandy Nurse, the bill's prime sponsor, told Law360 that the measure would address a dire situation for the city's workers.
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March 17, 2026
Tyson Foods Inc. must face most of a proposed class action accusing it of wage and hour violations at a Washington processing plant, after a federal judge on Tuesday found a worker plausibly alleged that meal break interruptions and automatic deductions resulted in unpaid wages.