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June 03, 2026
It's true that Jennifer Bennett is undefeated at the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's also an understatement. Bennett's five wins, including two recent ones, were all unanimous decisions. They showed that the plaintiffs bar can still persuade a conservative supermajority. And they turned the tide after a spree of decisions keeping workers and consumers out of court.
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June 03, 2026
Several Texas-based addiction recovery program operators cannot remove a worker's attorney from a proposed wage class action over his prior involvement with the programs, a federal judge found, saying the operators failed to show the attorney had a conflict of interest or was a necessary witness.
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June 03, 2026
Artificial intelligence tools' ability to come up with assignments and review workers' performance could support findings that an independent contractor is an employee under federal law, as the Labor Department's new proposed rule for independent contractors puts particular emphasis on employers' control, attorneys say.
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June 03, 2026
The Trump administration told federal agencies that employees based in 11 cities hosting World Cup matches should be allowed to work remotely during the international soccer tournament, easing restrictive guidelines issued late last year.
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June 03, 2026
An Arizona federal judge sent out-of-state Cracker Barrel workers' wage claims to Massachusetts federal court, finding the claims should be transferred, not dismissed, after a Ninth Circuit ruling left the Arizona court without jurisdiction over them.
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June 03, 2026
North Carolina's corrections department cannot skip ahead to an appellate court to challenge a ruling that found correctional officers must be paid for all time spent inside prison facilities, a federal judge found, saying the yearslong case is nearly ready for a final resolution.
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June 03, 2026
A proposed wage class action against a medical and industrial gas supplier can proceed in court, a Washington federal judge ruled, finding that a former worker's arbitration agreement with a staffing agency did not apply.
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June 03, 2026
Federal wage law doesn't allow workers to recover pay for nonovertime hours during weeks when they logged more than 40 hours, the Third Circuit held Wednesday as a matter of first impression, partially undoing a $35.8 million win for the U.S. Department of Labor against bankrupt nursing homes.
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June 02, 2026
A Sixth Circuit case that the U.S. Department of Labor has continued litigating involving a wage rule the agency is separately seeking to walk back shows how the department simultaneously takes different approaches to enforcement and deregulation, agency veterans and attorneys said.
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June 02, 2026
The Fourth Circuit dismissed a former auto parts worker's appeal of an order decertifying wage and hour classes and a collective action, finding Tuesday he lost standing when he voluntarily settled his individual claims.
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June 02, 2026
A Texas commercial cleaning company and workers who accused it of using subcontractors to dodge overtime pay have reached a proposed class action settlement, according to a joint status report filed in Colorado federal court.
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June 02, 2026
A FedEx delivery driver's overtime suit has largely survived the company's bid to end it early, as an Illinois federal judge found that questions over a key exemption tied to vehicle weight must go to a jury.
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June 02, 2026
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that last-mile drivers who locally deliver goods that travel interstate can qualify for a federal arbitration exemption does not undo several independent arguments for keeping a Rhode Island bread distributor's wage suit in arbitration, Flowers Foods Inc. told the First Circuit.
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June 02, 2026
A California federal judge allowed a wage and hour suit accusing Phillips 66 of failing to pay oil refinery workers for standby shifts to move forward, rejecting the energy company's bid to shut the case down.
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June 01, 2026
Food delivery drivers suing a California company for alleged wage violations say a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision bolsters their argument that a similar federal overtime exemption does not cover their local warehouse runs, according to a letter filed in the Ninth Circuit.
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June 01, 2026
A Georgia federal court on Monday awarded $3.45 million in attorney fees and costs to lawyers for workers who reached an $11.5 million settlement over claims that a Hyundai supplier, a Kia plant and staffing agencies recruited skilled Mexican engineers for production work and underpaid them.
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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.