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November 10, 2025
Southwest Airlines' policy of compensating flight attendants based only on their actual flight time systematically deprived them of overtime pay, a former employee says in a proposed class action in Illinois federal court.
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November 10, 2025
A Michigan federal judge said a farm labor contractor failed to identify any reasons for a new trial after a jury found it violated anti-trafficking and labor laws and breached employment contracts with farmworkers from Guatemala.
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November 10, 2025
The former chief financial officer of a Pittsburgh-area steel company told a Pennsylvania state court he was promised severance pay when he was terminated as part of the company's sale, but has yet to get any of the $112,500 he signed up for.
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November 10, 2025
Ranking police officers' claims that officials with the city of Philadelphia and its Police Department didn't tell them they were eligible for overtime for emergency work would require a one-on-one analysis, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, denying a bid for class certification.
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November 10, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it won't review a $22 million verdict for workers claiming they were owed pay for changing in and out of protective gear before and after shifts, shelving the question of whether compensation for that activity is based on a "reasonable" duration or the actual time spent.
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November 07, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court will return Monday for a short week of arguments, in which the justices will consider whether state and local government officials can be held personally liable for alleged religious rights violations, and whether government contractors are entitled to immediately appeal denials of derivative sovereign immunity.
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November 07, 2025
A former Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP associate has accused the firm of discriminating against women, especially pregnant women, claiming that she was harassed throughout her pregnancy and eventually fired after she advocated for herself and pointed out the disparate treatment.
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November 07, 2025
A defunct nonprofit art studio and nightclub is facing a proposed class and collective action brought by a former employee who says he is owed nearly $40,000 in unpaid wages due to being misclassified as an independent contractor.
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November 07, 2025
The ongoing battle over the paid short-term military leave rights of National Guard and Reserve members in civilian employment is at a critical juncture, and employers should be aware that this type of litigation is here to stay, attorneys say.
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November 07, 2025
A former employee sued Emory Healthcare Inc. in Georgia federal court Friday, claiming the healthcare provider violated federal law by firing her for complaining that it broke a promise to pay her extra for working late.
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November 07, 2025
An Alabama federal court correctly handed FedEx a win on a former freight handler's retaliation and discrimination suit alleging he was punished for leaving work to take care of his pregnant wife, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday while nevertheless reviving his interference claim.
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November 07, 2025
A rest stop operator has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve a suit lodged by the Connecticut labor commissioner accusing the company of failing to pay food service employees the full wages they were owed, the parties told a state court.
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November 06, 2025
In a landmark vote that turned corporate governance on its head, Tesla Inc. shareholders on Thursday thumbed their noses at both Delaware Chancery Court and top proxy advisers by awarding CEO Elon Musk an estimated $1 trillion compensation package, according to preliminary results.
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November 06, 2025
A Colorado federal judge on Thursday questioned the parties on both sides of a complaint in determining if it has enough details to move forward in the lawsuit from nearly 40 nurses who claim they were not properly paid while temporarily working at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California during a 2023 strike.
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November 06, 2025
A dog training and grooming business's insurer told a Washington federal court it should owe no coverage for two cases and a civil investigative demand from the state attorney general's office relating to customers' purchase of service dogs and the business's employment practices, pointing to a raft of exclusions.
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November 06, 2025
The Ninth Circuit has affirmed the National Labor Relations Board's order finding a trio of Southern California hospitals violated federal labor law by unilaterally implementing a COVID-19 pandemic pay program without first bargaining with a Service Employees International Union affiliate representing registered nurses and professional workers.
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November 06, 2025
A food and beverage company wrongly assumed that all its employees were subject to overtime violations alleged in a worker's proposed class action, a Washington federal court ruled, remanding the case to state court on the grounds that the company overestimated the amount of money at stake.
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November 06, 2025
An automotive parts retailer paid drivers based on how long a specific route was supposed to take, not how much they actually worked, a former employee said in a proposed class and collective action filed in North Carolina federal court.
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November 06, 2025
Massachusetts' newly implemented pay transparency law seems primed to be used as a tool to bolster laws already in place — including in discrimination and equal pay cases — even if the new statute itself is unlikely to spawn significant legal action, experts told Law360.
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November 06, 2025
Wayfair imposed unreasonable quotas on workers for unloading and sorting furniture that led to missing meals, rest and cooling-down breaks, as well as unpaid wages, a former employee told a California state court.
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November 05, 2025
Nursing home operator Nationwide Healthcare Services LLC has been hit with a wage class action in Ohio federal court alleging that the company failed to pay workers overtime at the proper rate in violation of state law and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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November 05, 2025
The Colorado Supreme Court's disciplinary body publicly censured an attorney Tuesday for making misrepresentations while he served as general counsel for a company owner in an employment dispute.
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November 05, 2025
A worker's overtime claim can proceed against a healthcare company that provides services through the U.S. Department of Labor to individuals who have suffered injuries while working at nuclear facilities, a South Carolina federal judge ruled Wednesday, while tossing other wage- and benefits-related claims.
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November 05, 2025
New Jersey has joined the growing list of states to go after companies for classifying workers as independent contractors instead of employees, but such actions tend to result in recovering pay without a change in status. Here, Law360 explores the issue.
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November 05, 2025
The Ninth Circuit relied on a U.S. Supreme Court decision that is silent on federal courts' jurisdiction when it limited a collective to Cracker Barrel servers only from the state where a wage suit originated, the workers told the justices, asking them to weigh in.