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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.
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August 03, 2026
Mahru Madjidi, a managing shareholder at Shegerian & Associates, helped a client secure a historic $103 million trial victory in an age discrimination suit brought against Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 03, 2026
Two mortgage companies agreed to pay $850,000 to resolve claims that loan assistants and processors were pushed to work unpaid overtime, according to a filing in California federal court.
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August 03, 2026
A libertarian public interest law firm urged the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to rule against the Labor Department's authority to adjudicate civil penalties against agricultural employers in house, arguing that Congress never authorized the agency's enforcement scheme under the H-2A guest worker program.
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August 03, 2026
A Georgia federal judge agreed to stay a former Emory University program coordinator's suit alleging that a director position she was promised was eliminated and she was fired after she requested maternity leave, citing upcoming mediation.
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August 03, 2026
A pizza shop and its owner told a Kentucky federal judge that the U.S. Department of Labor cannot recover punitive damages even if it wins its retaliation case, arguing the agency never proved the owner knew he might be breaking federal law.
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August 03, 2026
A former PepsiCo Inc. coordinator sued the beverage and snack giant in Pennsylvania federal court, alleging the company subjected her to years of harassment based on her sexual orientation and gender expression, ignored repeated complaints and then fired her shortly after she returned from medical leave.
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July 31, 2026
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2026, our list of more than 160 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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July 31, 2026
A Goodyear worker hit the tire-maker with a proposed class action in Washington state court, alleging it denied employees required meal and rest breaks, failed to pay for off-the-clock work and used time-rounding practices that left workers underpaid.
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July 31, 2026
A former autonomous vehicle operator has sued a New Jersey mapping and technology company in federal court, alleging the company failed to pay workers for mandatory post-shift meetings, excluded the first hour of workday travel from compensation and delayed overtime premium payments.
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July 31, 2026
From a look at where Fair Labor Standards Act collectives stand a year after rulings in the Seventh and Ninth circuits, to a California law that clarifies whether exemptions from federal arbitration requirements apply to state law, catch up on Law360 Employment Authority's wage and hour stories from July.
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July 31, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a hearing on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's motion to send gender discrimination claims to arbitration. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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July 31, 2026
Food delivery drivers who claimed that Grubhub misclassified them as independent contractors secured final approval of a $24.8 million settlement in California federal court, though a judge cut class counsel's requested attorney fees by more than $2 million.
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July 31, 2026
A healthcare call center told the Sixth Circuit that remote employees are not entitled to pay for booting up and logging in to work computers, arguing those steps are no different from passing through a workplace security checkpoint.
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July 31, 2026
A Portland strip club's co-owner has renewed his bid to end a dancer's retaliation lawsuit in Oregon federal court, arguing that the cancellation of a one-time $50 performance does not rise to the level of harm needed to sustain a federal retaliation claim.
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July 31, 2026
This week, a federal judge will consider the New York State Police's attempt to toss a suit brought by a former lieutenant who claimed that he was passed over for promotions dozens of times in favor of white candidates.
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July 31, 2026
The Seventh Circuit's new standard for certifying collective actions, introduced a year ago in an age discrimination case against pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, has turned out to be less onerous than certification standards recently established by other circuits and hasn't significantly impacted notice distribution, wage and hour attorneys say.
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July 30, 2026
A Colorado federal judge Thursday ended a motion hearing, uncertain if an arbitration agreement between a home improvement company and a group of former employees who claim they were misclassified as independent contractors is still valid even if the forum they agreed to arbitrate in changed.
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July 30, 2026
The former chief executive of Sound Federal Credit Union can draw a management entity that he is accused of shortchanging into a lawsuit stemming from his termination, a Connecticut state judge has ruled, apparently as an alternative to dismissing portions of two counterclaims.
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July 30, 2026
A Washington state judge paused a proposed class action against Meta and related entities over its alleged omission of pay information from job postings, finding an appellate ruling in a similar suit against TikTok could determine whether class treatment is appropriate.