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March 10, 2026
Perdue Farms Inc. lost its case challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. Department of Labor's administrative proceedings for whistleblower complaints after a North Carolina federal judge found such proceedings don't flout Perdue's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial.
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March 10, 2026
The beginning of 2026 brought noteworthy moves in the wage and hour sphere, including the U.S. Department of Labor’s new independent contractor rule and federal contractors' minimum wage and two U.S. Supreme Court denials on collective issues. Here, Law360 looks at four notable developments since January.
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March 10, 2026
DLA Piper should not be permitted to represent itself at trial in a pregnancy discrimination case brought by a senior associate who was fired in 2022, lawyers for the plaintiff told a Manhattan federal judge.
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March 09, 2026
Employment law cases overall have bounced back from pandemic-era lows, especially discrimination and disability accommodation suits, though a slump has continued for Fair Labor Standards Act claims, according to a report by legal analytics provider Lex Machina.
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March 09, 2026
The American Forest Foundation fired a former director for taking a leave of absence to address physical and mental health concerns brought on by a disability, the ex-director told a Colorado federal court.
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March 09, 2026
A pair of former employees of a water damage repair company claim in a proposed class action filed in Colorado state court that the company is violating Colorado employment laws by not allowing employees to take state-mandated breaks and by paying on-call workers a flat rate for assignments regardless of the actual hours worked.
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March 09, 2026
American Airlines automatically deducted 30-minute meal breaks even when customer service agents worked through them and rounded employee hours to 15-minute increments, resulting in wage violations, according to a proposed collective action filed in Texas federal court.
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March 09, 2026
The operator of a North Carolina restaurant franchise that serves wings wrongfully retained employee tips, resulting in minimum wage violations, according to a new proposed class and collective action in federal court.
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March 09, 2026
Two companies that provided spot holders at Con Edison sites had control over the workers' conditions typical of that of employers, a New York federal judge said, agreeing with the U.S. Department of Labor that the entities misclassified the workers and owe about $6 million.
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March 09, 2026
An inspection services company will pay $530,000 to end a collective action alleging it underpaid inspectors, according to a Pennsylvania federal judge's order.
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March 09, 2026
A bus attendant plausibly alleged that a school transportation company willfully violated federal wage law, an Ohio federal judge ruled, allowing her claims to reach back three years rather than two.
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March 09, 2026
A bill making its way through the Washington Legislature would enhance the power of the state attorney general to demand document production and testimony in civil matters, including suspected violations of the U.S. and Washington constitutions, allowing prosecutors to seek documents from elected officials and law enforcement agencies.
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March 06, 2026
Insisting that attorneys call him "just Ye. No 'mister,''' the rapper formerly known as Kanye West took the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom Friday to defend himself from allegations he shorted a former worker who completed services on his Malibu home, saying he didn't recall most details of his interaction with the plaintiff.
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March 06, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court's opinion requiring Amazon to pay warehouse workers for time spent awaiting and undergoing post-shift security screenings used basic statutory interpretation tools, not policy arguments, to reach conclusions aligned with other pro-labor laws passed by the state legislature, experts told Law360.
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March 06, 2026
A class of FedEx workers in Connecticut has asked a federal judge to give preliminary approval to a $9.5 million settlement in a lawsuit over unpaid walking and security screening time and attorneys with Hayber McKenna & Dinsmore LLC are asking for $3.16 million in fees.
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March 06, 2026
Boeing should not be able to immediately appeal a decision sending to state court a proposed class action accusing the aerospace company of denying a $12,000 bonus to workers on long-term disability leave, a former employee told a Washington federal court.
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March 06, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Friday approved an undisclosed settlement resolving a wage dispute brought by emergency dispatchers who alleged St. Clair County failed to properly calculate overtime under federal and state wage laws.
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March 06, 2026
Two operations managers cannot snag class certification in their suit accusing rental car company Hertz of misclassifying them as overtime-exempt, a California federal judge ruled Friday, saying they didn't clear the burden that common questions predominate over individual ones.
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March 06, 2026
A multistate senior care provider automatically deducted 30 minutes per shift for meal breaks even when employees worked through them, resulting in unpaid overtime, according to a proposed class and collective action complaint filed in Kentucky federal court.
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March 06, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a lawsuit brought by teachers who accused their Long Island school district of unlawfully banning them from displaying LGBTQ+ pride flags in their classrooms. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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March 06, 2026
Pennsylvania's labor secretary had the authority to delegate the ability to issue prevailing wage determinations in several countywide broadband improvement projects, a state appeals court said Friday, putting to rest a grievance from Verizon that the state's labor board rejected.
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March 06, 2026
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court this month will revisit a ruling on the state attorney general's power over civil suits brought by county-level district attorneys in a case stemming from the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh district attorneys' objections to a $26 billion opioid settlement.
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March 06, 2026
CSX Transportation Inc. has resolved a conductor's lawsuit claiming the railroad giant discourages workers from using family and medical leave and punishes those who take time off to care for their health and loved ones, according to a filing in North Carolina federal court.
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March 06, 2026
A Georgia-based oil and gas infrastructure firm was hit with a proposed collective action Thursday by a former employee who said the company deliberately misclassified maintenance workers as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime rates.
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March 06, 2026
Two downtown Boston restaurants will pay a total of around $422,000 to resolve administrative complaints that alleged they failed to distribute proceeds from a service fee to employees as required by the Massachusetts Wage Act, the state attorney general's office announced Friday.