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July 02, 2026
A.Y. Strauss LLC announced a new chair of labor and employment law on Thursday with the addition of an employment litigator who was head of employment at Lindabury McCormick Estabrook & Cooper PC.
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July 02, 2026
Seyfarth Shaw has bolstered its labor and employment group with a veteran litigator from Fox Rothschild, bringing on an attorney who plans to utilize his platform at Seyfarth to continue defending employers in expansive bias and wage and hour class actions.
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July 02, 2026
Littler Mendelson PC, which primarily deals with the management side of employment and labor law, announced on Wednesday the hiring of a duo from Troutman Pepper Locke LLP specializing in independent contractor matters.
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July 02, 2026
Hilco Merchant Resources must face a lawsuit from a putative class of nationwide workers who ran going-out-of-business sales at Christmas Tree Shops, a Delaware bankruptcy judge has determined, rejecting the argument the suit should be dismissed because Hilco was an independent consultant to the debtor.
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July 02, 2026
Wage and hour claims brought by workers who accused an auto parts manufacturer of requiring off-the-clock work are headed to trial after settlement talks broke down, a North Carolina federal court said.
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July 01, 2026
The House Financial Services Committee has advanced a federal framework for fintechs offering paycheck advances despite pushback from some Democrats that the proposal hamstrings states by blocking them from applying their lending laws to the services and imposing stronger consumer protections.
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July 01, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's lack of controls over information sharing between subagencies and nongovernmental entities, including law firms and legal advocacy organizations, may have unfairly advantaged those parties with privileged investigative information, an agency watchdog reported, though use of the practice has dropped off.
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July 01, 2026
Littler Mendelson PC, which primarily deals in employment and labor law practice representing management, announced on Tuesday the hiring of a former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney as a shareholder in its Walnut Creek, California, office.
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July 01, 2026
A Texas commercial cleaning company agreed to pay $500,000 to settle claims that it failed to pay overtime wages and provide paid sick leave to Colorado workers it employed through subcontractors, according to a motion for preliminary settlement approval filed Wednesday in Colorado federal court.
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July 01, 2026
Battery plant workers have told a Michigan federal court that Ford Motor Co. is their joint employer and bears responsibility for unpaid wage claims at an electric vehicle battery plant, pushing back against the automaker's bid to escape the lawsuit.
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June 30, 2026
A former Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services registered nurse filed a proposed collective action on Tuesday accusing the Michigan health provider of shorting hourly workers on overtime pay through automatic meal-break deductions, time-rounding practices, unpaid training and excluded bonuses.
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June 30, 2026
Restaurant servers have asked a Connecticut state court to throw out a steakhouse's argument that some of their unpaid work was too small to matter, saying a recent state high court ruling makes clear that no amount of work can go uncompensated under state law.
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June 30, 2026
President Donald Trump's chosen nominee for secretary of labor has already been overseeing the U.S. Department of Labor as it returns to wage and hour policies from the president's first term, and observers said they expect him to maintain that approach.
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June 30, 2026
Two former hospital workers urged a Colorado federal court to keep alive their proposed class and collective action alleging University of Colorado Health shorted hourly employees through a time-rounding policy and denied them required meal and rest breaks, saying their claims are sufficiently detailed to proceed.
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June 30, 2026
A worker's challenge to his former employer's vacation buy program has failed after the Seventh Circuit ruled that letting employees trade salary for extra paid time off does not amount to a wage assignment requiring special written notice under Indiana law.
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June 30, 2026
A Missouri federal jury found a St. Louis University-affiliated hospital owes a former doctor $6.8 million in damages after finding she was retaliated against and fired for complaining that a male doctor made patient care errors and mistreated her on the job.
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June 30, 2026
Oilfield drillers who lost their bid for overtime pay after the Fifth Circuit ruled that their hybrid pay arrangement exempted them from overtime have asked the court to take another look at the case, arguing that the ruling makes it too easy for employers to dodge overtime rules.
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June 30, 2026
A look at a Ninth Circuit case involving whether a worker consents to arbitration if they did not see emails containing opt-out instructions and an interview with a member of Congress about his paid family leave bill are among Law360 Employment Authority's wage and hour stories to catch up on. Here's a look at features and analyses you may have missed from June.
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June 29, 2026
Wayne-Sanderson urged a Maryland federal court to enforce nearly $70 million in settlements the poultry processor reached with workers and to block dozens of individuals who are suing or threatening to sue in Alabama state court alleging wage suppression.
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June 29, 2026
President Donald Trump said Monday that he plans to nominate acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling to formally serve in the role, which has been vacant since the departure of Lori Chavez-DeRemer amid an internal watchdog investigation.
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June 29, 2026
A former employee of a Fortive medical equipment subsidiary urged a Colorado federal judge to reject the unit and its parent's bid for an early win in her retaliation suit, saying evidence shows a restructuring masked her firing after she challenged government pricing violations.
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June 29, 2026
An Eastern Michigan University interior design professor has sued the university and its board of regents in Michigan federal court, alleging the school systematically paid female faculty less than similarly situated male professors and then refused to correct the disparity after she sought a salary adjustment.
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June 29, 2026
Workers who need computer systems to do their jobs must be paid for time spent getting those systems ready, including booting up employer-provided machines, the U.S. Department of Labor told the Sixth Circuit in a bid to revive remote healthcare call center workers' claims that they were denied pay for that time.
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June 29, 2026
A New Jersey appeals court ruled Monday that workers can pursue representative wage actions under state law without meeting the requirements for a formal class action, while partly scaling back the time period for which back wages can be sought.
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June 29, 2026
A cloud software company has agreed to pay $1.475 million to resolve a proposed collective action alleging it misclassified sales employees as overtime-exempt and failed to pay them overtime wages, according to an unopposed approval motion filed in North Carolina federal court.