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August 05, 2026
A tenured philosophy professor's retaliation claims against Drexel University will proceed to trial after a Pennsylvania federal court denied the university's bid for an early win, finding that genuine factual disputes remain over whether the university's course format change was retaliatory.
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August 05, 2026
The operators of three San Antonio, Texas, bakery locations paid $45,000 in back wages and penalties after a U.S. Department of Labor probe found child labor and wage violations, the agency announced.
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August 05, 2026
A New York federal judge refused Wednesday to narrow proposed groups of workers suing a healthcare facility over overtime and sick pay or dismiss the sick-leave and wage-statement claims, finding a former worker plausibly alleged broad pay practices and harm from misleading records.
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August 05, 2026
The federal minimum wage is often treated as a cornerstone of American employment law. But for hundreds of thousands of workers nationwide, exceptions remain embedded in the legal system. "Law360 Explores: Subminimum Wage," a three-part audio series, examines how and why certain workers can legally be paid less than the federal minimum, $7.25 an hour.
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August 05, 2026
Littler Mendelson PC shareholder Rocio Blanco Garcia's litigation work helped to clarify how employers can beat whistleblower cases in the Eleventh Circuit, and her advisory work gave thousands of employees of a Florida county access to paid parental leave, earning her a spot among the employment lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 05, 2026
A Maryland federal court has conditionally certified a collective of construction workers who allege their employer systematically underpaid overtime through a scheme of issuing two separate checks, with the second check often for a flat $104 regardless of the actual overtime hours worked.
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August 05, 2026
An Anaheim, California, Marriott hotel will pay $2.75 million to resolve a state Labor Commissioner's Office investigation into allegations that it violated state law by failing to rehire two dozen employees who were laid off during the pandemic, the agency announced.
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August 05, 2026
Lockheed Martin agreed to pay $620,000 to end a former employee's proposed class action alleging the defense contractor failed to pay employees for the time they walked to and from time clocks at a Pennsylvania facility, according to a motion filed in federal court.
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August 05, 2026
A UPS driver urged a Colorado federal judge to reject the company's early win bid in a proposed class action, arguing late payments cannot erase paid-sick-leave violations.
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August 05, 2026
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a state law passed during the COVID-19 pandemic properly barred school custodians from claiming extra emergency pay under their collective bargaining agreement, finding that the law required employees to be treated as if schools had stayed open.
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August 04, 2026
The owner of a chain of New York car wash businesses shaved time off of the weekly wages of his employees, illegally retained their tips and retaliated against them when they complained, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in federal court on Tuesday.
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August 04, 2026
The California Supreme Court is reviewing whether a carveout to employment law liability that religious institutions use as a shield in discrimination cases extends to wage and hour claims, stepping into a debate that the U.S. Supreme Court previously declined to take up.
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August 04, 2026
The Campbell's Co. and the staffing firm CorTech LLC violated federal and state wage laws by requiring hourly contingent workers to work nights and weekends without overtime pay, a proposed class and collective action filed in New Jersey federal court claims.
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August 04, 2026
Five Virginia traffic control workers sued their employer Tuesday in federal court, alleging the company deleted or shortened their recorded hours to suppress overtime pay, failed to pay for required travel and retaliated against workers who refused to sign a new timekeeping policy.
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August 04, 2026
A Colorado casino forced dealers to hand over part of their tips to supervisors, buy their own uniforms and work off the clock before their shifts, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in federal court.
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August 04, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday revived a Virginia commonwealth's attorney's qualified immunity bid in a Family and Medical Leave Act firing suit, finding the law did not clearly require him to let an employee fix a disputed medical certification before contacting the provider.
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August 04, 2026
Former participants in a Texas faith-based addiction recovery program have asked a federal court to certify a collective of workers who allege they were required to perform substantial labor on farms, in retail stores and in other commercial operations without receiving lawful wages, instead earning a points-based system worth roughly $1 per hour.
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August 04, 2026
Illinois IHOP franchise operators and their owner reached a settlement in principle Tuesday with the U.S. Department of Labor in a federal lawsuit accusing them of keeping workers' tips, deleting hours and underpaying overtime.
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August 04, 2026
Allison Anderson of Foley Hoag LLP helped negotiate a project labor agreement for the first offshore wind energy project in the U.S. and litigated a high-stakes trade secrets dispute that went to the First Circuit, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 04, 2026
A former agricultural worker objected to a magistrate judge's recommendation to deny class certification in her wage and hour suit against a California farm labor contractor in federal court, arguing the findings rest on a fundamental legal error in applying the state's meal period presumption to agricultural workers.
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August 04, 2026
An urgent care provider will pay $1.64 million to end claims that it denied workers overtime through meal-break, time-rounding and bonus-pay practices, according to a settlement given preliminary approval by an Illinois federal judge.
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August 04, 2026
New Jersey's attorney general hit Amazon with a federal antitrust suit Tuesday, alleging the company engineered its Delivery Service Partner program to create a "captive seller," then used its dominance to impose substandard pay, harsh working conditions and anti‑union tactics on thousands of last‑mile delivery drivers across the state.
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August 03, 2026
An assisted living operator refused to pay for breaks under 20 minutes, left extra-shift bonuses out of overtime rates and paid manual workers biweekly instead of weekly, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in New York federal court.
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August 03, 2026
A former worker for a commercial potato and vegetable processing company asked a Washington federal court Monday to certify a collective in his suit alleging the company automatically deducted meal periods from workers' pay regardless of whether they took breaks and restricted them from clocking in to record pre-shift work.
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August 03, 2026
Federal workers would receive up to 12 weeks of paid leave to address their own serious health conditions or care for family members under legislation introduced by a group of Democratic senators.