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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.
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May 06, 2026
A decade-long wage lawsuit against Walmart has come to a close after a California federal judge granted final approval of a $2.25 million class action settlement that includes claims under California's Private Attorneys General Act.
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May 06, 2026
A Texas marketing company and the U.S. Department of Labor asked the Fifth Circuit to toss an appeal challenging a Biden-era overtime rule, according to a joint filing Tuesday.
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May 05, 2026
Top corporate legal officers and executives are seeing a significant influx of leave and accommodation requests tied to workers' mental health, and an uptick in requests for pregnancy-related job modifications, according to a survey released Wednesday by Littler Mendelson PC.
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May 05, 2026
Papa John's employees are continuing to push a Kentucky federal court to approve a $5 million settlement for the pizza chain's past use of "no-poach" provisions in its franchise agreements, saying a handful of newly discovered objections offer no reason to reject the deal.
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May 05, 2026
A U.S. federal court erroneously ruled that federal antitrust law did not apply in a case involving Canada-based hockey leagues and teams, players hoping to revive their suit alleging mistreatment by the developmental leagues told the Ninth Circuit on Monday.
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May 05, 2026
An energy consulting firm failed to pay overtime to hourly consultants who regularly worked more than 40 hours per week on infrastructure projects across the country, according to a collective action filed Tuesday in Minnesota federal court.
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May 05, 2026
California’s proposed rule for punishing “vexatious filers” of Private Attorneys General Act notices isn’t clear enough about the state workforce agency’s oversight plans, said Elizabeth Parker-Fawley of Lawyers for Justice. She spoke with Law360 about the firm’s PAGA strategy, the 2024 amendment and the regulation.
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May 05, 2026
A former equity principal from Jackson Lewis PC with nearly three decades of experience representing and counseling employers on labor and employment issues has joined Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC as a shareholder in its Boston office, the firm has announced.
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May 05, 2026
A Fourth Circuit panel seemed unlikely to leave untouched a certified class of Anheuser-Busch LLC workers alleging the brewing giant failed to pay for pre- and post-shift work, taking issue with disparities in the class such as members hired before and after COVID personal protective equipment requirements.
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May 05, 2026
Restricted stock units would be excluded from the calculation of overtime pay under federal wage law under a bill introduced by a Republican U.S. House lawmaker.
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May 05, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor told a D.C. federal court that it will make a final call by the end of June on how it will proceed with an overtime rule issued during the Biden administration.
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May 05, 2026
A Washington freight carrier denied workers meal and rest breaks, failed to pay overtime and sick leave and required employees to sign unlawful noncompete agreements, a proposed class action filed in state court said.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor could make wage and hour policy even more of a priority, as the acting secretary, who previously led the department's Wage and Hour Division, staffs up with top aides from that subagency.
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May 04, 2026
Tyson production supervisors cannot pursue a nationwide collective accusing the company of misclassifying them as overtime-exempt, an Arkansas federal judge ruled on Monday, though he allowed a narrower group of workers at a single facility to move forward with their wage claims.
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May 04, 2026
A DTE Energy employee filed a proposed collective action in Michigan federal court, alleging the utility systematically underpaid overtime wages by failing to properly calculate workers' regular rate under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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May 04, 2026
Out-of-state delivery drivers can't pursue their wage claims against Bimbo Bakeries in a Vermont federal court, the Second Circuit ruled Monday, finding their claims aren't tied closely enough to the company's activities in the state.
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May 04, 2026
Three former sales workers have sued a cloud software company in North Carolina federal court, alleging the company wrongly classified them as overtime-exempt and denied them time and a half pay for years.
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May 04, 2026
A now-shuttered university urged an Ohio federal court to dismiss a proposed wage and benefits class and collective action brought by former employees, arguing the suit fails to allege sufficient facts, is barred by prior bankruptcy proceedings and improperly targets individual defendants.
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May 04, 2026
An aviation staffing company paid its avionics technicians the same hourly rate for all hours worked, including overtime, and disguised the scheme using fake per diem payments, a proposed collective and class action filed in Georgia federal court alleges.