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October 06, 2025
A New Jersey wedding DJ services company misclassified its entertainers as independent contractors rather than employees, the state appeals court ruled, affirming the state Department of Labor's $45,645 judgment against the company.
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October 06, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court refused a request on Monday to review baseball's century-old exemption from antitrust law in a case from players accusing Major League Baseball and its teams of colluding to pay minor leaguers "poverty level" wages.
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October 06, 2025
Disney must do regular equal pay audits as part of a recent $43 million settlement, which serves as a good reminder to employers about using such audits to weed out pay gaps, attorneys told Law360.
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October 06, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review whether the time that home health aides spend traveling between clients' homes is compensable in a case brought by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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October 03, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in six cases during the first week of its October 2025 term, including in disputes over federal candidates' ability to challenge state election laws, Colorado's ban on conversion therapy, and the ability of a landlord to sue the U.S. Postal Service for allegedly refusing to deliver mail.
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October 03, 2025
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 3 signed into law legislation giving gig drivers the right to unionize and negotiate certain job terms and conditions, after state leaders reached a deal with Uber and Lyft to facilitate its passage.
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October 03, 2025
After a busy summer of emergency rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its October 2025 term Monday with only a few big-ticket cases on its docket — over presidential authorities, transgender athletes and election law — in what might be a strategically slow start to a potentially momentous term. Here, Law360 looks at four of the most important cases on the court's docket so far.
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October 03, 2025
A nurse staffing executive convicted of wage fixing and wire fraud is asking a Nevada federal court for a new trial, arguing that prosecutors misled the jury about a cooperating witness's leniency deal.
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October 03, 2025
Inflated damages calculations and speculative attorney fee estimates can't keep a worker's suit accusing a logistics company and a wholesale grocery store chain of wage and hour violations in federal court, a California federal judge said Friday, vacating an earlier arbitration order.
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October 03, 2025
Amazon has urged an Illinois federal judge to grant it summary judgment in an ex-worker's lawsuit alleging pregnancy-based discrimination, saying she was fired only after failing to return at the end of an extended leave period and that it reminded her at least five times that she needed to provide documentation to support a longer leave.
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October 03, 2025
A Tokio Marine unit said it has no duty to defend or indemnify restaurant franchise operators accused of violating Washington's Equal Pay and Opportunities Act, telling a Washington federal court in two separate actions that the allegations do not trigger coverage under their respective employment practices liability insurance policies.
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October 03, 2025
The Ninth Circuit on Friday revived a lawsuit alleging that Circle K passed over three former employees for promotion because they were in their 50s, saying the trial court was wrong to fault the workers for not applying to the job when the company never advertised the opening.
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October 03, 2025
A handful of states have recently tightened child labor laws by reducing the number of hours young people can work and making other changes, while other states have loosened restrictions, creating what attorneys describe as a complex compliance landscape. Here, Law360 explores some of the latest developments.
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October 03, 2025
A manufacturer of grill and cooking accessories only paid brand ambassadors based on the company's product sales during promotional events at Costco stores and improperly considered the workers overtime-exempt, an employee said in a proposed collective action filed in Utah federal court.
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October 03, 2025
Twenty years after John Roberts became the 17th chief justice of the United States, he faces a U.S. Supreme Court term that's looking transformative for the country and its institutions. How Justice Roberts and his colleagues navigate mounting distrust in the judiciary and set the boundaries of presidential authority appear increasingly likely to define his time leading the court.
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October 03, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a California-based National Labor Relations Board matter involving a gas supplier. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in the Golden State.
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October 03, 2025
A DoorDash subsidiary that delivers groceries and household items failed to pay its associates for work performed before and after their shifts, training and missed meal breaks, an employee said in a proposed collective action in Tennessee federal court.
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October 03, 2025
The full Eighth Circuit will not review a split panel decision ruling that taxpayers could challenge a Minnesota school district's paid leave policy that allows teachers to take paid time off to work for their union.
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October 02, 2025
Owners of the San Diego Wave Futbol Club have sued its former president in California state court, alleging she lied about her intentions to stay with the women's soccer club after its purchase, resigning instead to take a job with FIFA as chief football officer.
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October 02, 2025
Southwest Airlines illegally fails to pay its Chicago Midway International Airport flight attendants for any work they perform outside the bounds of their actual flight time, according to a proposed class action one of the airline's employees filed in Illinois state court.
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October 02, 2025
A legal service support company failed to properly pay its employees overtime, a former trial consultant said in a proposed collective action filed Thursday in Texas federal court.
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October 02, 2025
A Colorado trial court failed to consider evidence showing that the operator of several McDonald's locations in Aurora, Colorado, did not violate the state's rest break laws, the entity told the state Supreme Court, urging the justices to undo the class.
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October 02, 2025
Dell illegally fired an attorney in the midst of her maternity leave after repeatedly denying her promotion opportunities and handing them to her male colleagues instead, the attorney told a Massachusetts federal court.
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October 02, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Administrative Law Judges said it has canceled proceedings, tolled deadlines and halted filings while the agency is closed because of the federal government shutdown.
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October 02, 2025
A former executive at a company providing assistance to people with intellectual disabilities and autism claimed in a lawsuit that he was misled over whether he was officially promoted, even as the company held him out to state regulators and banks as the chief executive officer.