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June 05, 2026
An Ohio federal judge ordered a Buffalo Wild Wings franchise Friday to pay a collective of workers nearly $300,000 after finding the business underpaid them through a tipped wage and didn't properly notify them of their rights under federal wage law.
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June 05, 2026
Morrison Foerster LLP has expanded its employment and labor group in Los Angeles with the addition of a former McDermott Will & Schulte attorney.
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June 05, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a former University of Connecticut professor's lawsuit claiming he was forced out of his job because of his race after the school launched an investigation into trumped-up charges of misconduct. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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June 05, 2026
A New York federal magistrate judge recommended tossing a former cancer physician's federal equal pay claim, finding she failed to show that two higher-paid male physicians performed substantially equal work.
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June 05, 2026
In the week ahead, a California federal court will weigh whether to sign off on a $2.4 million deal in a proposed wage and hour class action against a medical clinic. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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June 05, 2026
The Ninth Circuit will hear from a benefits administrator that claims federal law preempts state-law data breach claims, and Amazon will defend its win in a military leave bias suit at the Second Circuit. Here, Law360 looks at cases being argued in June that benefits attorneys should have on their radar.
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June 04, 2026
Jacksons Food Stores Inc. pushed workers in Washington state to delay their legally mandated meal and rest breaks, cut them short or skip them entirely in order to complete their assigned job duties, a former employee has claimed in a proposed class action targeting the convenience store chain.
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June 04, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday validated the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's conclusion that national hours-of-service regulations trump California's meal and rest break rules for bus drivers, saying the agency was justified in finding that the Golden State rules strain interstate commerce.
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June 04, 2026
A Black payroll specialist at a Hormel Foods Corp. plant in Georgia has accused the food company of firing her two days before Christmas because of her race and age, and in retaliation for raising concerns about improper wage recordkeeping, according to a complaint filed in federal court.
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June 04, 2026
A Total Wine & More operator urged a Washington federal judge Thursday to deny class certification in a pay transparency suit, warning that certifying a class of up to 20,000 job applicants would be "ruinous" for the employer.
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June 04, 2026
Colorado workers will no longer have to foot the bill for their own personal protective equipment under a new state law that also guarantees restroom breaks for meat processing workers.
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June 04, 2026
A food service distributor told the Ninth Circuit that 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 supports a lower court's decision tossing workers' federal overtime claims.
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June 04, 2026
The House Appropriations Committee introduced a funding bill Thursday that would cut the U.S. Department of Labor's budget by nearly $4 billion, including a decrease in the Wage and Hour Division's budget and the elimination of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
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June 04, 2026
Maynard Nexsen PC has bulked up in Dallas with a new shareholder and of counsel who joined from Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, an associate who arrived from Winstead PC and an associate who has relocated from the firm's Washington, D.C., office.
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June 04, 2026
Paper and building products manufacturer Georgia-Pacific shorted hourly workers on overtime by failing to include performance pay and other nondiscretionary compensation in their regular rate of pay, a forklift operator alleged in a proposed collective action in Georgia federal court.
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June 04, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge tossed a call center worker's Virginia overtime claim against a home security company, finding the state law at issue merely repackages rights already protected by federal law.
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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.