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May 12, 2026
Alaska Airlines has agreed to settle a pilot's class action claiming the company didn't let employees on military leave accrue the same amount of sick and vacation time benefits civilian employees collected on other types of leave, according to a Washington federal court filing.
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May 12, 2026
A cannabis retailer and one of its co-owners urged a Michigan federal court to toss a proposed collective action accusing the company of improperly confiscating employee tips, calling the suit "frivolous" and denying any unlawful tip-pooling practices.
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May 12, 2026
Two Prince George's County deputy sheriffs who take their police dogs home have sued the county in Maryland federal court, alleging it underpaid K-9 handlers for overtime work related to the daily off-shift care of their assigned canines.
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May 12, 2026
A former Target distribution center worker sued the retail giant in Maryland federal court, claiming the company failed to pay hourly employees for time spent on mandatory pre- and post-shift activities.
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May 11, 2026
A Federal Circuit panel questioned Monday whether an email mishap that kept a U.S. Department of Defense employee from timely appealing his furlough was the employee's fault, after the U.S. Supreme Court gave him the green light to continue his 13-year-old fight.
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May 11, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor will no longer pursue another appeal seeking to save a Biden-era rule that increased the salary threshold for white-collar overtime exemptions.
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May 11, 2026
The Fifth Circuit refused Monday to reopen a lawsuit from a former payroll accountant for a Houston car dealership claiming that she was unlawfully fired ahead of her maternity leave, saying she hadn't shown that she was let go because of her pregnancy rather than colleagues' complaints about her behavior.
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May 11, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge on Monday appeared poised to order sanctions favoring a sushi chef in a proposed class action accusing a Fairfield restaurant of wage violations, criticizing the eatery's attorney for engaging as a purported consultant a client and manager of another restaurant the same chef is suing in New York.
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May 11, 2026
Seattle-area hospital system Swedish Health Services will pay $86 million to settle a proposed class action claiming its alleged meal break violations and rounding practices led to unpaid wages, according to a state judge's preliminary approval of the deal.
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May 11, 2026
Grubhub has misclassified its delivery drivers as independent contractors and unlawfully collected their biometric data without consent, according to a proposed class action filed in Illinois state court.
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May 11, 2026
Farmworkers accusing a harvesting company of luring them to the U.S. under false promises urged a Colorado federal court Monday to reject the company's attempt to undo sanctions, arguing its attorney's prolonged absence from the case did not constitute excusable neglect.
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May 11, 2026
An Alabama retirement and assisted living facility unlawfully excluded pandemic-related hazard pay from employees' overtime calculations, the Eleventh Circuit ruled, finding that the pay must be included in workers' regular rate under federal wage law.
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May 11, 2026
Cable technicians alleging several companies misclassified them as independent contractors must arbitrate their claims against one of the businesses because they signed agreements barring class and collective actions, the company told a Virginia federal court.
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May 11, 2026
A hiring startup that supplies workers to train artificial intelligence models for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta has misclassified more than 30,000 workers as independent contractors to avoid paying payroll taxes and benefits, according to a proposed class action in Texas federal court.
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May 08, 2026
Former H-2A workers alleging a turf farm avoided paying them overtime by misidentifying their roles while having them do substantial, non-agriculture-related landscaping work told a Missouri federal judge Friday they've reached an $850,000 settlement to resolve the yearslong Fair Labor Standards Act litigation.
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May 08, 2026
A Louisiana federal judge has awarded a total of $1.5 million to two former in-house attorneys at Louisiana State University following a jury trial over allegations that the university abruptly rescinded the attorneys' transfer offers as retaliation for raising concerns about gender equity.
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May 08, 2026
The Colorado General Assembly has passed a bill that limits companies and others from using consumers' and workers' personal data for setting individualized consumer prices and worker wages.
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May 08, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's proposed changes to its independent contractor classification test could result in fewer workers being able to avail themselves of Family and Medical Leave Act and PUMP Act protections, as well as add to compliance challenges posed by a patchwork of state laws, experts say. Here's a look at three effects a regulatory shift could have.
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May 08, 2026
A casino operator said a proposed wage and hour class action from a former employee must be tossed because the allegations in the complaint are too broad to move forward, according to a motion to dismiss filed Friday in Colorado federal court.
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May 08, 2026
New York commuter van drivers have urged a federal court to preserve a $236,000 jury verdict finding they were employees of a black car company and entitled to unpaid minimum wage and overtime, arguing the company's bid for a new trial was both untimely and meritless.
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May 08, 2026
A Colorado restaurant owner has agreed to pay more than $14,000 to resolve wage claims brought by one of three immigrant workers who have accused him of forcing a Venezuelan migrant to work without pay.
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May 08, 2026
A group of Arizona fire department employees failed to plausibly allege that they worked more than 40 hours in any given workweek without proper overtime pay, a federal judge ruled, dismissing their proposed collective action against the town of Gilbert but allowing them to amend their claims.
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May 08, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should keep an eye out for a hearing on a proposed deal to end a military leave class action against Southwest Airlines Co. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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May 08, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday scuttled an equal pay lawsuit from a former athletics official at Alabama State University, finding she failed to identify a male counterpart who performed similar work and yet was paid more.
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May 08, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge closed the books on a years-long severance dispute between A360 Media LLC, Bauer Media Group USA LLC and a former executive, after entering a sealed opinion and order terminating the case.