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July 21, 2026
Sam's Club illegally fired a baker after refusing to process her leave request during an emergency hospital stay, she alleged in Michigan federal court, adding that she only learned of her firing when her membership with the store expired.
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July 20, 2026
Bank of America agreed to a $4.3 million deal to end claims that it didn't pay out unused vacation time for thousands of workers, though the settlement hit a minor setback when a federal judge ruled the plaintiffs set a hearing date too soon after filing their preliminary approval motion.
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July 20, 2026
A Denver strip club Friday asked a state court judge to prohibit a Denver Labor hearing officer from presiding over its appeal challenging $14 million in fines stemming from wage theft allegations, claiming the hearing officer is biased and didn't fully disclose her professional relationship with the Denver Labor director who hired her.
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July 20, 2026
A Washington federal judge has allowed most of a campus food-service worker's wage and hour claims to proceed, finding the worker adequately pleaded violations of state meal and rest break laws and willful withholding of wages.
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July 20, 2026
An oilfield services company urged a Colorado federal judge to compel arbitration of a proposed class and collective action alleging unpaid overtime, arguing the former worker behind the suit agreed to arbitrate wage claims individually before providing services for the company.
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July 20, 2026
Poultry plant workers looking to bring claims in state court over an alleged scheme to suppress wages told a Maryland federal court they opted out of nearly $70 million in settlements struck with Wayne-Sanderson.
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July 20, 2026
An Alabama federal judge tossed a Black Chipotle manager's suit alleging she was fired for complaining that her boss favored Hispanics, ruling she failed to overcome the restaurant chain's position that she was terminated for mistreating her staff and allegedly saying that gay people were going to hell.
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July 20, 2026
A former CSX Transportation Inc. conductor has urged a Florida federal court to let his medical leave retaliation claims go to a jury, saying the company's investigation into his alleged misuse of approved leave was statistically baseless and fundamentally flawed.
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July 20, 2026
A former medical malpractice paralegal accused a personal injury law firm and three attorneys in New York federal court of failing to pay overtime, alleging the firm gave her $600 cash after she complained about unpaid wages and later fired her, according to a proposed class and collective action.
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July 20, 2026
A Colorado state corrections agency and a group of criminal investigators who accused it of failing to pay them for time spent on call have reached a settlement in principle in federal court, ending a lawsuit that was headed toward trial.
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July 20, 2026
Federal courts in the latter half of 2026 are expected to decide if the Trump administration overstepped by designating Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security and whether the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions pass constitutional muster, potentially affecting the government's ability to tackle fraud.
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July 17, 2026
Amazon urged a Washington federal court to toss a proposed class action alleging it paid women less than male colleagues and limited their career opportunities, arguing the lawsuit is short on details and many of the claims belong in New York or California rather than the Evergreen State.
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July 17, 2026
A California federal judge Friday denied a group of current and former Meta employees' bid to swiftly block the company from disturbing the benefits of certain employees it allegedly selected for termination using artificial intelligence, but requested more information on how Meta selected four employees on company-sponsored employment visas.
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July 17, 2026
UPS has urged a Colorado federal court to deny class certification in a sick leave suit brought by a package driver, arguing the claims turn on too many individual questions to proceed as a class action and that the court should first resolve the company's pending motion for summary judgment.
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July 17, 2026
Greystar, the largest apartment management firm in the U.S., failed to pay hourly workers for off-the-clock labor and missed breaks, according to a proposed class action filed in Washington state court.
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July 17, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court rulings determining that freight brokers can face state-based negligence lawsuits and that last-mile drivers can also be exempt from arbitration are among the biggest court decisions of the first half of 2026 affecting the transportation industry. Here, Law360 highlights a few of the biggest transportation-related rulings of 2026 so far.
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July 17, 2026
A bipartisan pair of senators introduced legislation that would offer federal grants to states creating paid family and medical leave programs through public-private partnerships and establish an interstate effort to streamline differing state rules.
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July 17, 2026
A Colorado federal judge dismantled a collective action brought by DaVita nurses and technicians alleging the kidney care giant forced them to work through unpaid meal breaks, finding Friday that the roughly 1,300 workers' vastly different experiences made collective treatment impossible.
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July 17, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a hearing on a dismissal bid in a religious discrimination suit against the City and County of San Francisco. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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July 17, 2026
Workers have been reevaluating where to lodge Fair Labor Standards Act suits in the year since the Ninth Circuit ruled in a case against Cracker Barrel that only plaintiffs who reside in a state where an FLSA case started in a collective can join a collective, attorneys say.
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July 17, 2026
Three current and former corrections officers at jail facilities in Washington, D.C., have sued the city, alleging the district failed to pay them for work performed before and after scheduled shifts, forced them to work through meal breaks without compensation and routinely delayed overtime payments by weeks or months.
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July 17, 2026
A consultant accused a Colorado investment firm and its founder of withholding more than $114,000 and reneging on promises to pay roughly $324,000 in deal fees after he helped secure a planned $108 million acquisition, according to a state court filing.
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July 16, 2026
A California federal judge indicated Thursday he won't immediately block Meta Platforms Inc. from laying off most of the 26 workers who claim the company used artificial intelligence to target them, but said he'd take a closer look at four on work visas who could be irreparably harmed.
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July 16, 2026
A pair of House Democrats have introduced a bill that would require employers to provide reasonable accommodations for workers experiencing menopause-related symptoms, creating explicit federal workplace protections for a condition that supporters say is not directly addressed under current law.
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July 16, 2026
A Pennsylvania appeals panel on Thursday said a lower court was wrong to scrap an arbitrator's conclusion that a school district violated a collective bargaining agreement by forcing a teacher recovering from surgery to use leave guaranteed by federal law to cover her absence.