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June 01, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge has cleared the way for servers and bussers at a craft brewing company to pursue their wage claims as a group, finding that tipped workers across the company's taprooms shared a common grievance over how they were paid.
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June 01, 2026
A warehouse and freight unloading company was hit with a proposed collective action in Georgia federal court by two former forklift operators who alleged they worked as many as 80 hours per week without proper overtime pay and were retaliated against for complaining.
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June 01, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor told the Fifth Circuit it expects to seek dismissal of its appeal over a nationwide injunction blocking parts of a Biden-era Davis-Bacon Act rule if a Texas federal court enters final judgment in the underlying case.
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June 01, 2026
An Ohio manufacturer required hourly production workers to don safety gear and attend preshift meetings without pay, a former employee told a federal court.
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May 29, 2026
The quarterly, nondiscretionary bonuses an employer gave to eligible employees already contemplated overtime pay and therefore don't trigger a recalculation of the workers' regular rate of pay, the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division said in one of four opinion letters it released.
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May 29, 2026
A coalition of New York construction industry groups has asked a federal court to block a state law that would extend prevailing wage requirements to off-site fabrication facilities, calling it unconstitutional and impossible to administer before its upcoming effective date.
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May 29, 2026
Three plumbers have sued a Michigan plumbing company and its owner, claiming they were wrongly denied overtime pay and fired after one worker contacted the U.S. Department of Labor about the company's pay practices.
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May 29, 2026
A New Jersey legislative committee has advanced a bill aimed at creating a model policy governing the use of generative artificial intelligence by licensed professionals across the state.
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May 29, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge ruled Friday that adult entertainers who perform on a streaming service are independent contractors under federal wage law but employees under New Jersey law, handing both sides partial wins in a wage class and collective action over the platform's pay practices.
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May 29, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a motion to dismiss hearing in a proposed wage and hour class action against oil refinery company Phillips 66. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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May 29, 2026
From the latest U.S. Supreme Court decision on whether a federal arbitration exemption covers 'last-mile' drivers to the Second Circuit ruling limiting where workers can bring collectives, catch up on Law360 Employment Authority's wage and hour stories from May.
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May 29, 2026
CNN America and a former worker who claimed she was unlawfully denied a proper place to pump breast milk on the job told a D.C. federal court they had agreed on the broad strokes of a deal to resolve her suit.
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May 29, 2026
A unit of Tyson Foods is seeking an early win in a former production supervisor's overtime suit, urging an Arkansas federal judge to find that the worker was properly classified as exempt because he managed tortilla production lines and supervised scores of workers.
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May 29, 2026
T-Mobile required its hourly call center workers to boot up computers and log in to multiple software systems before their shifts without paying them for any of it, a former employee said in a collective and class action filed in Washington federal court.
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May 28, 2026
A dietary worker at a Pennsylvania hospital network accused her employer of shortchanging overtime pay by leaving bonuses out of the calculation, according to a proposed collective action filed in federal court.
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May 28, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Thursday that an arbitration exemption can cover delivery drivers, who complete the last leg of an interstate journey but themselves don't cross state lines or touch a vehicle that does, doesn't entirely address distribution agreements and class action waivers, attorneys said.
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May 28, 2026
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision finding that a lower court abused its discretion by relying on arguments the parties never raised supports a home care company's bid to undo a Sixth Circuit ruling affirming nearly $15 million in overtime liability, the company told the appeals court.
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May 28, 2026
Amtrak violated its collective bargaining agreements with two unions by allowing only workers who were actively employed on the 15th day of the month to accrue paid time off, the unions told a District of Columbia federal court.
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May 28, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor will not oppose a bid by construction industry groups to permanently wipe out three provisions of a Biden-era Davis-Bacon Act rule that a Texas federal court has already blocked nationwide.
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May 28, 2026
The Seventh Circuit affirmed a medical benefits management company's win in a Black former business analyst's suit alleging she was denied higher pay and promotions because of her race, saying she failed to show the company's stated reasons were a cover for discrimination.
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May 28, 2026
Two security guards dropped their proposed class and collective action that alleged a security company in Washington, D.C., failed to pay workers for time spent traveling between jobsites, according to a filing Wednesday in D.C. federal court.
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May 28, 2026
An exemption to federal arbitration requirements for workers engaged in interstate commerce can extend to what are known as last-mile drivers who locally deliver goods that travel interstate, the U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday, resolving an issue that lingered after previous high court decisions.
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May 27, 2026
The Colorado Court of Appeals appeared poised Wednesday to revive the retaliation claims of a former human services caseworker against the county department she had worked for, pushing back on a lower court's interpretation of statutes meant to close gender pay gaps.
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May 27, 2026
Boeing has asked a South Carolina federal court to toss a proposed class and collective action brought by workers who say the aerospace giant failed to pay them for time spent waiting for and riding shuttles between a remote parking lot and its 787 Dreamliner manufacturing facility, arguing that such commute time is not compensable under federal law.
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May 27, 2026
The Third Circuit appeared startled Wednesday at the notion that the Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to notify workers that they're required to notify them of various aspects of the wage law, as Denny's seeks to overturn certification of a server's suit accusing it of violating the act's disclosure requirement.