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July 07, 2026
A furniture retailer and a last-mile delivery company have agreed to a $2.5 million settlement resolving a roughly 9-year-old class action brought by workers alleging delivery truck drivers and helpers were misclassified and denied overtime pay, according to a motion for preliminary approval filed in New Jersey federal court.
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July 07, 2026
A co-founder of the global labor and employment juggernaut Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC died Monday after decades of helping shape the firm's values of honesty and transparency.
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July 07, 2026
A New Jersey state appeals court said the state's public employee pension system was right to shave eight years of service off a government prosecutor's retirement credits, finding he couldn't skirt a change in law that blocked contractors of professional services from collecting benefits.
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July 07, 2026
FedEx shorted warehouse workers by requiring them to undergo unpaid security screenings before and after their shifts, according to a proposed class action filed in Colorado federal court Tuesday.
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July 07, 2026
Regulatory changes in California and New Jersey, high court decisions in Connecticut and Illinois, and new laws in Virginia are highlights of the wage and hour policy activity states have faced in the first half of 2026. Here, Law360 looks at those state developments.
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July 07, 2026
Seventeen current and former employees of a Chicago data company have sued the firm and its chief executive in Illinois federal court, alleging he withheld five months of wages, pocketed health insurance premiums without paying the insurer, and diverted nearly $2 million in company revenue to cover personal expenses rather than payroll.
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July 07, 2026
A Massachusetts police lieutenant who spent nearly three years on paid administrative leave while his department investigated a suspected internal affairs leak says he's owed hundreds of hours of overtime pay because he was not allowed to leave his home for a 30-minute meal break during the workday.
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July 07, 2026
A Tennessee federal judge threw out an ex-worker's suit claiming a Coca-Cola bottling company failed to hold her job open after she took several months of medical leave, ruling that once she exhausted her 12-week leave allotment, the business wasn't obligated to return her to her old job.
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July 07, 2026
An Amazon entity agreed to pay $5 million to settle claims by grocery store workers in California federal court that it failed to provide required meal and rest breaks and pay overtime wages.
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July 06, 2026
Ninth Circuit arguments in a proposed class and collective action by delivery drivers seeking overtime from a food distributor will likely focus on which entity shipped the transported goods, an analysis that can help determine whether a Fair Labor Standards Act exemption for truck drivers applies, attorneys said.
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July 06, 2026
Two companies partnered with Con Edison targeted immigrants from the country of Georgia and required them to work 50- to 90-hour weeks under conditions "tantamount to human trafficking" for far less than minimum wage, according to a proposed class action filed in New York federal court Monday.
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July 06, 2026
Walmart Inc. has agreed to pay $13 million to settle claims brought by the Texas attorney general alleging the company stiffed delivery drivers participating in its Spark Driver program, and said it will additionally implement "honest" compensation practices going forward.
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July 06, 2026
Kim Kardashian's Skims retail company executed a "scheme of wage abuse" to increase its profits by failing to pay overtime wages to hourly employees and denying them legally required meal and rest breaks, alleges a Private Attorneys General Act representative action lodged Monday in California state court.
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July 06, 2026
North Carolina law firm Whitaker & Hamer PLLC fired a paralegal after she asked to bring her service dog to work and for additional time off to manage flare-ups of her disability, according to a Monday lawsuit the former employee filed in federal court.
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July 06, 2026
A workers' compensation insurance company has been sued by a premium audit consultant who claims it failed to pay overtime wages to workers who regularly clocked far more than 40 hours a week, a North Carolina federal lawsuit alleges.
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July 06, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court justices forged unusual alliances when they ruled a federal statute preempts claims Monsanto failed to warn consumers its Roundup weed killer may cause cancer. Oral arguments provided insights on the 7-2 outcome, highlighting issues the jurists were grappling with and showcasing rationales that found their way into the opinion.
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July 06, 2026
Following several U.S. Supreme Court terms teeming with reversals and rebukes of lower appeals courts, the justices this term found fault less often with rulings by circuit judges, who are likely becoming better attuned to the conservative supermajority, attorneys say.
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July 06, 2026
When one of the U.S. Supreme Court's most talkative members suddenly struggled to speak, the atmosphere at oral arguments grew increasingly anxious — until the justice deadpanned that it was an advocate's golden opportunity to avoid a grilling.
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July 06, 2026
A Maryland federal judge trimmed but declined to completely toss a suit from a trio of CSX Transportation Inc. workers who said they were suspended or fired for taking medical leave during holidays, saying a jury needs to probe whether a crackdown on dishonesty drove the discipline or retaliation.
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July 06, 2026
Ogletree announced Monday the management-side labor and employment law firm has added to its roster of attorneys in Orange County, California, a new shareholder who is returning to the firm following a short time at employment boutique GBG LLP and several years practicing at Constangy.
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July 06, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled an updated agency rule list that contains newly announced plans for child labor and tipped worker changes and provides updated time frames on previously announced proposals.
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July 06, 2026
In the first half of 2026, the scope of an arbitration exemption, the reach of collective actions, a U.S. Department of Labor rule for home care workers and more were the focus of some major wage and hour decisions. Here, Law360 looks at five rulings that have made a mark this year.
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July 06, 2026
A gig economy staffing platform has agreed to pay $95,000 to settle allegations made in Illinois state court that it misclassified workers as independent contractors and failed to pay overtime wages and four-hour minimums when job placements were canceled, the state attorney general announced.
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July 02, 2026
This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.
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July 02, 2026
The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.