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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.
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May 08, 2026
In the coming week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a former New York correction officer's suit claiming he was suspended without pay and declared absent without leave in retaliation for his work with a union. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 08, 2026
A former Netflix Animation worker has accused the company and a staffing agency in a proposed class action and Private Attorneys General Act suit in California state court of denying legally compliant meal and rest breaks, requiring unpaid off-the-clock work, and failing to pay minimum and overtime wages.
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May 08, 2026
One year after New York changed how and when workers can recover liquidated damages under the state's pay frequency law, several cases that began before the changes have settled, and late-payment claims have taken a back seat in employees' suits, attorneys said.
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May 07, 2026
Delivery drivers for a catering platform were misclassified as independent contractors and denied minimum wages and overtime pay, according to a proposed class action in California state court.
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May 07, 2026
New Jersey's highly anticipated final rule codifying a three-prong ABC test doesn't contain some of the more controversial aspects of its proposed version but will still make it harder for businesses to classify workers as independent contractors, attorneys said.
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May 07, 2026
Former inmates at the Lackawanna County Prison who worked at a county recycling center for just $5 per day can get their long-running lawsuit certified as a class action, albeit only for inmates who had been incarcerated solely because of missing child support payments, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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May 07, 2026
Female pharmaceutical sales representatives in an AstraZeneca equal pay suit have urged an Illinois federal court to reject the company's bid to dismiss two dozen opt-in plaintiffs for refusing discovery, saying the women feared retaliation and career consequences.
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May 07, 2026
A Virginia federal judge declined to approve a proposed $52,500 settlement of a former case manager's lawsuit alleging that a law firm stiffed her on overtime, saying Thursday that the parties failed to provide enough information related to attorney fees and costs.
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May 07, 2026
Litigants involved in benefits cases that involve novel or significant pension-related issues can now ask the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. to lodge briefs shedding light on their disputes, the PBGC announced Thursday.
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May 07, 2026
The Fifth Circuit agreed Thursday to toss an appeal challenging a Biden-era overtime rule in a suit brought by a Texas marketing company against the U.S. Department of Labor.
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May 06, 2026
Safeway Inc. broke Washington state law by denying employees required meal and rest breaks and failing to adequately compensate them for missed or interrupted breaks, a former worker has claimed in a proposed class action filed in King County Superior Court.
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May 06, 2026
More workers will need to limit putative wage and hour collective actions to a single state or seek to bring a wider action where their employer is based or primarily does business, after the Second Circuit joined others in barring out-of-state workers from joining collective actions, attorneys said.
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May 06, 2026
Buffalo Exchange's New York employees can't collect liquidated damages on their claim that the company unlawfully issued paychecks biweekly instead of weekly, a New York federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying workers can't seek damages when their employer pays them semimonthly and hasn't violated the state's paycheck timing rule before.
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May 06, 2026
New Jersey adopted regulations codifying a test for determining whether workers are employees or independent contractors, establishing a classification framework set to take effect Oct. 1, the state has announced.
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May 06, 2026
Target warehouse workers urged a Washington federal judge to reject the retailer's bid to dismiss a proposed class action claiming employees weren't paid for time spent walking inside a distribution center before and after shifts, arguing they plausibly alleged they were on duty during that time.
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May 06, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge has sided with Bank of America in a discovery dispute over documents the bank withheld as privileged in a mortgage loan officers' overtime lawsuit, finding the materials were part of a protected legal review process.