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June 23, 2026
The Sixth Circuit refused Tuesday to upend a $205,000 verdict in favor of a former Michigan Technological University accounting professor who said she was given a lower raise because she took maternity leave, saying a reasonable jury could conclude the dean improperly considered her pregnancy.
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June 23, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's proposed joint employer rule drew praise from franchisee organizations, which said the changes provide clarity, while others, including a coalition of more than 20 state attorneys general, said the rule overly limits long-standing standards.
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June 23, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge Tuesday agreed to certify a class of workers alleging Konica Minolta used an office relocation as a guise to conduct a mass layoff without having to pay severance.
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June 23, 2026
A former customer support worker has sued a business process outsourcing company in Massachusetts federal court, alleging the company shortchanged workers on overtime and paid them late because of its semimonthly pay system.
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June 23, 2026
A recently reintroduced bipartisan bill that would provide federal employees up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave could give them much-needed time off for medical-related issues while also helping to boost recruitment, said U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., a primary sponsor of the bill. Beyer spoke with Law360 about the Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act.
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June 23, 2026
Three former Buffalo Exchange workers are taking their wage suit to the Second Circuit, according to a Tuesday filing, appealing a final judgment for the retailer after a New York federal judge ruled they could not seek liquidated damages over their allegations that the company paid them late.
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June 23, 2026
A federal judge has tossed a former cancer physician's federal equal pay claim against a cancer center in Buffalo, New York, accepting a magistrate judge's recommendation that she failed to show male comparators performed substantially equal work.
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June 22, 2026
Medical supplies giant Thermo Fisher Scientific pressed a Ninth Circuit panel Monday to agree that the company's repeated emails about litigation waivers should send an ex-employee's proposed class action to arbitration, but the judges repeatedly questioned why no one simply asked if the worker saw the emails.
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June 22, 2026
A Home Depot employee called on a Seattle federal judge to certify a class of more than 21,000 current and former low-income workers whom the home improvement store chain allegedly barred from working additional jobs in violation of Washington state law.
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June 22, 2026
The ex-CEO of Sound Federal Credit Union asked a Connecticut state judge on Monday to dismiss portions of the credit union's two counterclaims asking him to return $80,000 for services he didn't perform because he was fired, saying it was not the correct party to bring such counterclaims.
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June 22, 2026
A federal judge allowed a national airline trade group's challenge to Michigan's earned sick leave law to move forward Monday in a Michigan federal court, finding the group plausibly alleged the law is preempted by a federal aviation deregulation statute.
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June 22, 2026
Two U.S. House Democrats on Monday urged the U.S. Department of Labor to withdraw its proposed rule for determining when multiple employers are jointly liable for wage and hour violations, saying it would undermine worker protections by making it harder to hold larger businesses accountable.
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June 22, 2026
A former Stop & Shop employee says the supermarket chain is violating the Massachusetts Wage Act by failing to give terminated workers all owed pay on their final day of employment, according to a proposed class action filed in state court.
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June 22, 2026
A Georgia energy company and a former technician reached a settlement Monday in a Georgia federal court in a proposed collective action alleging the company misclassified maintenance workers as independent contractors to avoid paying overtime.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down a Minnesota teachers union local's bid for review of an Eighth Circuit decision that revived a taxpayer challenge to a collective bargaining agreement's policy letting workers take paid time off to work for their union.
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June 18, 2026
CSX Transportation asked a Florida federal judge to toss two ex-workers' claims that they were fired for using Family and Medical Leave Act leave, saying one was fired for using the leave dishonestly and the other was fired for repeatedly calling out sick without medical documentation.
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June 18, 2026
A former state Department of Revenue employee claimed in a proposed class action Wednesday that she was paid more than $1 an hour below Denver's minimum wage for the entirety of her time as an employee and is owed compensation, according to a complaint filed in Colorado state court.
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June 18, 2026
Arizona lawmakers cleared a ballot measure that could lead to a ban on race-based diversity, equity and inclusion programming in public workplaces and schools, and Colorado's governor vetoed a bill aimed at curbing employers' use of data gleaned through surveillance to set workers' pay. Here, Law360 looks at notable state-level legislative developments this month that discrimination lawyers should have on their radar.
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June 18, 2026
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission failed to convince a New York federal court Thursday to reconsider a ruling that kept alive a school district's defense in a pay discrimination suit over a female superintendent's lower salary.
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June 18, 2026
A Delaware federal judge conditionally certified a collective of DuPont production workers who said they were shorted on overtime for pre- and post-shift tasks, finding the Fair Labor Standards Act does not bar a second collective action over the same alleged pay practices.
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June 18, 2026
A former call center worker asked a Massachusetts federal court to reconsider its dismissal of her Virginia overtime claim against a home security company, arguing the ruling rested on a legal error and that a newly enacted state amendment independently defeats federal preemption.
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June 18, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit arguments in a retaliation suit by several workers against SpaceX. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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June 18, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider reviving a New York City firefighter's lawsuit claiming the city denied him a medical exemption from a COVID-19 vaccine requirement even after he had an allergic reaction to the first dose, causing an even more severe reaction that forced him to retire.
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June 18, 2026
A Colorado hotel operator snagged an early win in a class and collective action brought by H-2B housekeepers, with a federal judge finding the workers failed to show the company was their joint employer and could be held liable for federal and state pay violations.
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June 18, 2026
A fresh Fourth Circuit ruling decertifying a class of brewery workers in an overtime case supports the argument against class certification made by fried chicken restaurant Bojangles in a suit accusing it of not paying shift managers for off-the-clock work, the chain told a North Carolina federal court.