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March 12, 2026
A Massachusetts water tank inspection company should not have to face a one-year debarment for prevailing wage violations, the company told a state court, arguing that it already paid the citations and being prevented from entering into contracts would be "fatal" to its business.
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March 11, 2026
Bally's, Hard Rock, Borgata and Tropicana were hit with proposed class and collective actions Tuesday in New Jersey federal court by dealers who alleged the Atlantic City-based casinos paid less than minimum wage to tipped employees and illegally required them to pool tips, in violation of federal and state wage laws.
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March 11, 2026
GreenSky LLC told a Georgia federal court Wednesday it's reached a settlement in a wage suit from former customer service employees a month after the fintech company won a bid to force the suit into arbitration.
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March 11, 2026
A Pennsylvania county averaged emergency dispatchers' and assistant supervisors' hours over two-week pay periods to avoid paying overtime premiums, according to a proposed collective action filed in federal court.
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March 11, 2026
The 2025 amendments to New York state's pay frequency law don't save employers from liquidated damages when they pay employees less than what they are owed, a federal magistrate judge said Wednesday, recommending that a home care company's partial win bid be rejected.
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March 11, 2026
Houston-based Callender Bowlin has struck back against a fired paralegal in federal court with counterclaims that she lied about the firm on TikTok and with allegations of fraud and "strange" office behavior.
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March 11, 2026
An Apple-affiliated repair company cannot undo five classes in a wage and hour suit that snagged a nearly $840,000 win for employees, a North Carolina federal judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting arguments that a recent Fourth Circuit ruling undermined the court's earlier decision.
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March 11, 2026
Sales agents supported their claims that an insurance marketing and sales organization willfully violated the Fair Labor Standards Act, a New Jersey federal judge ruled, applying a longer statute of limitations to the workers' claims for unpaid wages.
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March 11, 2026
A former security guard for a Tennessee hospital did not plausibly allege that lunch periods were compensable work time under federal wage law, the Sixth Circuit ruled, affirming the dismissal of his proposed class action claiming that automatic deductions for meal breaks cost him overtime pay.
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March 11, 2026
A bakery that sells cannabis products owes pay to a former cashier who sued it for overtime and tip violations, an Illinois federal judge ruled, accepting a magistrate judge's recommendation for a default judgment.
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March 10, 2026
Nannies, housekeepers and other domestic workers in Washington state will soon have many of the same labor protections as employees in traditional workplace settings thanks to a bill that Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed into law on Monday.
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March 10, 2026
A Texas federal court did not take into consideration relevant factors to determine whether a former Johnson & Johnson sales representative's failure to retain local counsel in his wage and hour suit represented excusable neglect, the Fifth Circuit ruled on Tuesday.
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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.