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May 19, 2026
American Airlines has asked a Texas federal court to toss a proposed collective action brought by customer service agents who alleged that the carrier failed to pay overtime wages, saying the workers are exempt from federal overtime law and a collective bargaining agreement bars their state law claims.
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May 19, 2026
A payroll services vendor for Pennsylvania's Medicaid-funded home care program cannot be held jointly liable for unpaid overtime because it did not exercise significant control over caregivers, the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday, affirming the company's bench trial win.
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May 19, 2026
Flowers Foods Inc. and two affiliates have pressed the First Circuit to uphold an order sending a Rhode Island bread distributor's wage suit to arbitration, arguing the distributor's agreement was a business-to-business contract that falls outside a Federal Arbitration Act exemption.
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May 19, 2026
Google's former global sales manager was targeted for taking protected medical leave and baby bonding leave and "treated with a lack of empathy and understanding for needing time off as a single father," he alleged in a discrimination lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
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May 19, 2026
Home Depot failed to show how Oregon law allows wage underpayments in one pay period to be offset by overpayments in another, a federal judge ruled, denying the retailer's bid to reconsider a decision finding it may still owe prejudgment interest to workers in a dispute over time-rounding practices.
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May 19, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge refused to reconsider her ruling that a church-run farm violated federal labor law by putting children as young as 12 to work without pay, rejecting its bid to undo nearly $670,000 in back wages.
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May 18, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday severed three wage suits against FedEx affecting more than 14,000 delivery drivers, saying their claims were improperly joined and represented an attempt to sidestep failed collective and class action efforts.
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May 18, 2026
A former 7-Eleven worker told a Tennessee federal court the convenience store chain required hourly employees to work off the clock and shaved time from their records to avoid paying overtime.
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May 18, 2026
New Jersey’s top labor official said he’s aware of opposition to an ABC test rule for independent contractor classification that his agency finalized this month, but that the regulation doesn’t change the way the state has approached the issue for nearly a century. Acting Labor Commissioner Kevin Jarvis spoke with Law360 about the rule.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged the Second Circuit to side with Instacart in its challenge to New York City laws governing grocery-delivery worker pay and tipping prompts, arguing that the measures will reduce gig-work opportunities while increasing delivery costs.
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May 18, 2026
Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake's New York sports bar told a federal judge on Monday that it has agreed to settle a wage and hour lawsuit brought by two bartenders who alleged the celebrity-owned venue stole their tips and shorted them on overtime pay.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review whether a Federal Arbitration Act exemption applies to agreements between two business entities when neither is a worker, leaving intact a Second Circuit decision that sided with two delivery drivers seeking to pursue their claims in court rather than arbitration.
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May 18, 2026
A former healthcare data platform chief strategy officer's amended complaint against the employer failed again to justify bringing three out-of-state individuals into the litigation, the company told a North Carolina federal court, adding that several key claims remain flawed.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court asked for the U.S. solicitor general's input Monday in a case that questions whether the GEO Group is covered by intergovernmental immunity and therefore able to pay immigrant detainees $1 a day for their work.
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May 15, 2026
Connecticut expanded pay transparency and breastfeeding accommodation obligations for employers, while Colorado's governor overhauled and reset the effective date of a novel artificial intelligence law. Here's Law360's biweekly look at state-level legislative developments discrimination lawyers should have on their radar.
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May 15, 2026
A free-enterprise nonprofit has backed Uber and DoorDash in their challenge to a pair of New York City laws that require food delivery services to prompt customers to tip before checkout, urging the Second Circuit to find that the laws tread on the companies' First Amendment rights.
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May 15, 2026
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling preserving federal courts' authority over cases they send to arbitration gives wage and hour litigants a clearer route for enforcing or challenging arbitration awards, attorneys said, though its practical impact is likely limited to the late stages of cases that do not settle.
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May 15, 2026
A North Carolina federal court declined to let employees alleging a property management company shortchanged them on overtime wages haul a recent order denying a bid for collective certification into the Fourth Circuit.
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May 15, 2026
A former human resources manager who alleged she was not given the chance to take paid leave and was fired by Iris Telehealth after suffering a miscarriage last summer has voluntarily dismissed her suit, according to Georgia federal court records.
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May 15, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a disability discrimination suit against Union Pacific Railroad Co. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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May 15, 2026
A Colorado state judge on Friday approved a Denver restaurant group's $800,000 settlement of a class action by workers who accused it of failing to fully compensate employees and firing a worker who refused to sign a form barring him from joining a class action.
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May 15, 2026
The Sixth Circuit declined to revive a worker's suit claiming a heavy machinery dealer fired him for seeking leave to manage his mental health and that his union failed to challenge his termination, ruling he lacked evidence that prejudice informed his firing rather than his performance issues.
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May 15, 2026
A former court clerk sued the city of Atlanta and several officials in Georgia federal court, alleging she was fired less than a month after returning from maternity leave in retaliation for whistleblowing, taking leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act and complaining about workplace misconduct.
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May 15, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a former New York City teacher's lawsuit claiming she was fired and blacklisted from future work after she refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 due to religious objections.
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May 14, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's announcement Thursday that it is restoring an overtime salary threshold from President Donald Trump's first administration, rather than putting in place a new level, has attorneys wondering when future rulemaking will happen.