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July 27, 2026
A recently signed California law clarifies that exemptions and exclusions from federal arbitration requirements apply to state arbitration law, closing what worker-side attorneys said was a gap in wage and hour litigation and potentially paving the way for updates in other states.
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July 27, 2026
Two former call center workers who accused a healthcare sharing nonprofit of failing to pay them for time spent booting up computers and logging into software before their shifts have settled their individual claims, according to a filing in Ohio federal court.
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July 27, 2026
FedEx agreed to pay $900,000 to close a suit claiming the company didn't compensate its service member employees who took short-term military leave but provided pay for other short-term leave such as jury duty and bereavement time, according to a Georgia federal court filing.
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July 27, 2026
New York-based truck drivers who accused a major trucking company of failing to pay them for time spent sleeping in their cabs have moved to settle their claims for $2.1 million, according to a motion filed in New York federal court.
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July 27, 2026
A New York federal judge tossed wage claims brought against Insomnia Cookies by a former delivery driver, finding that a tip theft claim was vague and that the worker failed to show that unreimbursed costs pushed her pay below the federal minimum.
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July 27, 2026
An investment bank and two managing directors are urging a Texas federal judge to toss a proposed collective action alleging employees went months without pay, arguing that the workers were exempt from overtime and had turned a contract dispute into a federal wage law case.
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July 24, 2026
Glenn Danas of Clarkson Law Firm will soon return to the California Supreme Court in a case dealing with the state’s Private Attorneys General Act, after arguing before the Ninth Circuit this month in a Motor Carrier Act exemption dispute. Danas spoke with Law360 on the sidelines of that state’s wage and hour law conference.
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July 24, 2026
Patrol lieutenants for an Arizona sheriff's department who claim they have been misclassified as overtime-exempt will take their case to a jury after a federal judge Friday denied both sides' bids for an early win and kept the collective action intact.
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July 24, 2026
Two former Citibank employees must take to arbitration their proposed class and collective claims alleging the bank underpaid workers by requiring inaccurate time reporting, a New York federal judge ruled, finding the workers entered valid arbitration agreements.
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July 24, 2026
A Nebraska federal judge approved $6 million in attorney fees and more than $1.7 million in litigation costs for class counsel in a long-running wage and hour class action brought by truck drivers against a major trucking company as part of a final approval order entered Friday.
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July 24, 2026
This week, a New York federal magistrate judge will consider a class of restaurant workers' claims that a steakhouse has not provided accurate information necessary to administer an $800,000 settlement that the two sides reached in April.
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July 24, 2026
A Virginia hospital system systematically shaved minutes off workers' pay by rounding away time worked before and after their scheduled shifts, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in Virginia federal court.
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July 24, 2026
A Colorado doctor has sued a medical billing company in state court, saying it mishandled patients' protected health information, skimmed her earnings and tried to pressure her into signing a new agreement allowing it to keep more collections after she left.
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July 24, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a final settlement approval hearing in a worker misclassification suit against Grubhub that went to the Ninth Circuit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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July 23, 2026
A Nordstrom Inc. worker has hit the Seattle-based retailer with a proposed wage-and-hour class action in Washington state court, accusing the company of failing to provide employees with legally mandated meal and rest breaks, then further failing to compensate them for the missed breaks.
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July 23, 2026
Proposed regulations impacting California's Private Attorneys General Act that have raised questions from both workers' and employers' attorneys are necessary to address a "depressing" trend of inadequate notices, a state workforce agency official said at a wage and hour conference Thursday.
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July 23, 2026
The Colorado Court of Appeals held for the first time Thursday that two Colorado statutes meant to close gender pay gaps do not require workers to allege gender discrimination, partially reviving a former human services caseworker's retaliation case against the county department she had worked for.
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July 23, 2026
Domino's Pizza LLC illegally blocked its Washington workers from moonlighting at certain businesses, a former employee claimed in a proposed class action filed Tuesday, alleging that a company conflict-of-interest policy violated two state laws barring many noncompete agreements.
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July 23, 2026
A Black forklift operator who claimed his employer denied him overtime work opportunities because of his race and in retaliation for filing discrimination complaints lost his appeal Thursday at the Sixth Circuit, which found that he failed to show his Arab American co-workers were truly comparable to him.
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July 23, 2026
A Cargill food company subsidiary is expected to pay nearly $5 million under a settlement that has received preliminary approval to resolve production workers' claims that they were stiffed on overtime for preshift COVID-19 screenings and walking before and after shifts at three Pennsylvania meatpacking plants.
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July 23, 2026
Two pairs of auto parts workers will try claims over unpaid off-the-clock work together, a North Carolina federal judge ruled Thursday, rejecting the manufacturer's bid to force 11 workers to pursue separate trials.
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July 23, 2026
Nike should hand over $15 million to a former employee who said she was paid less than male colleagues and passed over for promotions despite exceeding performance expectations, a federal jury in Oregon said.
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July 22, 2026
Google and a woman former engineering director who accused the company of discriminating against her because of her gender have reached a settlement, the parties told a New York federal judge Wednesday, months after the judge declined to throw out a jury's verdict in the woman's favor.
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July 22, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday named former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan board chair of the New York City Economic Development Corp. and Anthony E. Shorris, a partner at consulting giant McKinsey & Co., as its president.
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July 22, 2026
Midday travel between home and office for employees who work from home part of their workday qualifies as ordinary commuting time and does not need to be paid, the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division said in one of two opinion letters it released Wednesday addressing commuter travel and compensable work time under federal overtime law.