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January 26, 2026
A pet product manufacturer has agreed to pay $975,000 to resolve a proposed class and collective action alleging the company failed to pay its employees for the time they spent putting on and removing personal protective equipment, according to settlement papers filed in Colorado federal court.
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January 26, 2026
A staffing company cannot escape a lawsuit that nearly 40 nurses brought alleging they were not properly paid while temporarily working at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California during a 2023 strike, a Colorado federal magistrate judge has ruled, finding the healthcare workers sufficiently backed up their allegations.
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January 26, 2026
Geico will pay $900,000 to settle several suits, all accusing the insurance company of not paying call center workers for preshift and postshift work, after a Georgia federal judge gave the deal final approval.
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January 23, 2026
A Washington state judge appeared somewhat open Friday to a Seattle-based flight attendant's bid to certify a worker class based on allegations that Alaska Airlines failed to provide adequate breaks, but suggested the plaintiff's wage claims may be beyond the court's reach because of underlying questions about a union agreement.
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January 23, 2026
Whether a worker qualifies for an arbitration exemption depends on what they do, not on the legal structure of their work, 14 states and the District of Columbia told the U.S. Supreme Court, backing a driver for Flowers Foods seeking to keep his wage suit out of arbitration.
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January 23, 2026
Understaffing by Choice Hotels forced workers to skip meal and rest breaks and accrue overtime that the company never properly paid, said a former employee's proposed class and collective action filed Thursday in Washington federal court.
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January 23, 2026
Two New York federal judges rejected requests by delivery companies Instacart, DoorDash and Uber to halt New York City laws regulating tipping options, minimum wage and disclosure requirements, saying that the companies didn't support their arguments that the laws violate the First Amendment and federal preemption principles.
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January 23, 2026
An Atlanta-based aerospace and information technology company has been hit with a proposed collective action in Georgia federal court over allegations that it failed to properly calculate pay rates when paying overtime to its air traffic controllers.
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January 23, 2026
The Third Circuit's January lineup will find Citizens Bank and Quest Diagnostics attempting to fight off bids from former employees to revive suits over their compensation.
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January 23, 2026
A Black longtime employee of the New Jersey Education Association has been paid less than her colleagues because of her race, she told a state court.
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January 23, 2026
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a summary judgment hearing in a former BlackBerry Corp. executive's discrimination and harassment suit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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January 23, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a discrimination suit a former worker for a Service Employees International Union benefit fund brought claiming the fund fired him after refusing to accommodate a disability that prevented him from driving for long periods of time.
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January 23, 2026
Eligibility for a new tax deduction for overtime compensation is based on definitions provided in the Fair Labor Standards Act, the IRS said Friday, spelling out who can claim the tax break and what pay qualifies.
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January 23, 2026
Delta Air Lines and a food service company cheated workers at airport lounges out of wages by not paying them for time spent undergoing security checks and by denying them meal and rest breaks, a worker said in a proposed class action in California state court.
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January 22, 2026
A home health company urged the Third Circuit to rethink its decision upholding a $1 million judgment against it after finding that the U.S. Department of Labor could strip third-party employers of an overtime exemption, saying the decision flouted the U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright ruling.
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January 22, 2026
Leave protections for organ donors and crime victims and increases to maximum benefit amounts are among the trends in paid leave laws that took effect this month around the U.S. Here, Law360 explores the trends.
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January 22, 2026
A Colorado federal judge Thursday gave his initial blessing to a $500,000 settlement resolving a Vitac Corp. employee's allegations that the transcription and closed captioning company didn't pay workers for preparation tasks necessary to perform their jobs, saying the immediate recovery outweighs potential future relief following expensive litigation.
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January 22, 2026
A New York City nonprofit that operates homeless shelters shaved time off of employees' hours, resulting in unpaid wages and overtime, according to a proposed class and collective action complaint filed Thursday in New York federal court.
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January 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court should maintain a ruling that a Flowers Foods distributor claiming unpaid overtime was exempt from arbitration because he engaged in interstate commerce, the National Academy of Arbitration told the high court Thursday, backing the worker.
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January 22, 2026
Littler Mendelson PC has elected New York shareholder William J. Anthony to serve as chair of its 19-member 2026 Board of Directors and named three new board members.
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January 22, 2026
The operators of a cleaning company reached a settlement with a worker who alleged they failed to appropriately pay him for his minimum, overtime and spread-of-hours wages, according to a New York federal court filing.
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January 22, 2026
A Massachusetts hotel cannot escape a $580,000 deal settling a class action and three individual wage and hour cases, the First Circuit ruled, rejecting the entity's argument that a conflict of interest arose when the plaintiffs' counsel represented both the workers in all four cases.
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January 21, 2026
The Ultimate Fighting Championship urged the Ninth Circuit to immediately stop a Nevada federal court from enforcing a "breathtakingly overbroad" discovery order in wage suppression lawsuits, saying it violates attorney-client privilege and the First Amendment.
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January 21, 2026
UPS has reached a deal to end a class action alleging the package delivery giant violated federal law by failing to pay drivers for short-term military leave despite providing compensation for jury duty and other short-term absences, according to a filing in Washington federal court.
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January 21, 2026
Drivers who worked for FedEx through intermediary entities failed to support their arguments that the freight company was their joint employer or that they worked unpaid overtime under federal wage law, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Wednesday.