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December 11, 2025
A Connecticut Asian fusion restaurant must face a class action employment case led by a sushi chef who claimed he and others worked close to 80 hours some weeks at a flat rate, without overtime pay.
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December 11, 2025
A Georgia federal judge agreed Thursday to consolidate a pair of class actions accusing Geico of shorting its call center workers on pay for pre- and post-shift work, clearing the way for settlements that were reached in late October.
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December 11, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take up a case about federal jurisdiction over the final say on arbitration awards is a technical battleground that may reaffirm state court power over such agreements, including those involving wage and hour claims, experts say.
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December 11, 2025
Nurses and technicians cannot move forward as a collective in an unpaid meal break lawsuit against a hospital network, a Missouri federal judge ruled, finding that they failed to put forward enough evidence that interrupted meal breaks were primarily for their employer's benefit.
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December 11, 2025
As the new year approaches, employment law attorneys are watching the expansion of pay transparency laws, efforts to ban "stay-or-pay" contracts and an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether last-mile drivers are exempt from federal arbitration requirements. Here, five attorneys share the wage and hour issues they’re watching.
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December 10, 2025
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and a staffing company urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to force traveling nurses to arbitrate their claims that they were cheated out of compensation, saying a judge erred when he found the agreement unconscionable due to a potentially confusing fee shifting provision.
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December 10, 2025
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is accusing coffee giant Starbucks Corp. of violating state civil rights protections in its efforts to promote an inclusive workforce, claiming in a state lawsuit Wednesday that the company's diversity, equity and inclusion policies "cross the line into illegal, race-based quotas."
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December 10, 2025
A former Home Depot assistant store manager showed that she spent most of her time performing nonexempt work, a California federal judge ruled on Wednesday, while also agreeing to grant the home improvement chain a victory on waiting time, wage statement and unfair competition claims.
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December 10, 2025
A pharmaceutical delivery company misclassified drivers as independent contractors even though it controlled nearly every aspect of their work and fired 12 named drivers at once for speaking up about it, according to a proposed class action filed in Kentucky federal court.
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December 10, 2025
Stone Hilton PLLC attorneys facing a sexual harassment suit from a former employee defended their move to subpoena two high-ranking members of the Texas Office of the Attorney General this week, saying their "hands are tied" by the ex-staffer's use of an email related to the purported misconduct.
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December 10, 2025
A construction company will pay out $1.5 million following an investigation revealing that the entity and its subcontractors misclassified workers as independent contractors, leading to unpaid wages, D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb said.
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December 10, 2025
A physician has agreed to settle his suit accusing a medical clinic of withholding his bonus and then firing him for complaining about unsanitary conditions in an autopsy suite, a New York federal judge said, discontinuing the case.
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December 10, 2025
Two staffing companies and an account and consulting entity failed to pay employees for all time that they worked and manipulated their time entries, two workers said in a Private Attorneys General Act suit lodged in California state court.
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December 10, 2025
Budtenders at a group of Massachusetts cannabis dispensaries alleged in a proposed class action filed in state court that managers are improperly pooling and taking a cut of tips left by customers.
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December 09, 2025
An overtime suit against the city of Philadelphia, its police department and some of the department's leaders should continue on to trial because qualified immunity doesn't apply and many questions remain unanswered, two ranking officers told a federal court.
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December 09, 2025
Federal labor law requires United Airlines Inc. flight attendants to arbitrate their proposed wage class action, the airline told a New Jersey federal court, saying resolution of the claims hinges on the parties' collective bargaining agreement.
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December 09, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court should clear up once and for all what standard courts should follow to certify collectives, the Retail Litigation Center Inc. said, backing Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc.'s efforts to evaluate the two-step certification process.
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December 09, 2025
The general counsel to the GEO Group Inc. has announced his retirement amid the company's battle at the U.S. Supreme Court, where the private prison operator stands accused of forcing immigrant detainees to clean a detention facility.
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December 09, 2025
An aircraft mechanic must cut his claim of meal break violations from his wage and hour suit against his former employer because it is preempted by the Labor Management Relations Act, a California federal judge ruled.
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December 09, 2025
The Trump administration asked a Florida federal judge to dismiss a suit challenging a Biden-era rule that boosted wages for foreign H-2A farmworkers, saying the case is moot after a Louisiana federal judge permanently blocked the rule nationwide.
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December 08, 2025
A California federal judge won't decide whether to certify a class of truck drivers in their wage suit against a construction materials company until the California Supreme Court resolves a separate wage suit, finding that the state high court's ruling could significantly impact the drivers' case.
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December 08, 2025
A suit accusing Delta Air Lines of failing to include a compensation range in job postings should remain in federal court because the job applicant who sued established an injury, the airline told a Washington federal court.
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December 08, 2025
An ex-Booz Allen Hamilton associate failed to show that the professional services firm terminated her because she agreed to testify in a co-worker's bias case, a Virginia federal judge ruled, tossing her last open claim and staving off a trial that had been slated to start Dec. 16.
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December 08, 2025
A Texas law firm should face sanctions after it flouted a court's order to turn over emails that could determine how much overtime a former paralegal worked, the former employee told a federal court, saying the firm provided "unusable garbage."
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December 09, 2025
Duane Reade and New York City will pay $7.2 million to more than 2,000 New York Police Department officers who claimed in New York federal court that the drug store chain didn't properly compensate them for work performed during off-duty hours.