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July 28, 2026
An auto parts manufacturer and four North Carolina workers urged a judge to reject each other's partial early win bids, disputing whether rounding practices and time-record edits deprived employees of pay.
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July 28, 2026
Amtrak has asked a District of Columbia federal court to toss a lawsuit brought by two railroad unions over its paid time off accrual policy, arguing the dispute must go to arbitration because it involves the interpretation of existing labor agreements rather than a unilateral change to those agreements.
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July 28, 2026
The spread of artificial intelligence tools in the workplace could require employers to pay minimum wage and overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, because employees could lose their discretion and independent judgment under the federal statute's administrative exemption, attorneys say.
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July 27, 2026
AT&T's Illinois unit was hit Monday with proposed class pay claims by a premises technician who says the telecommunications giant illegally fails to compensate premises technicians for duties they're required to complete as they prepare for and conclude their daily shifts.
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July 27, 2026
A Washington Court of Appeals panel has reinstated a worker's proposed class action accusing public hospital district Island Health of denying employees meal breaks and illegally rounding time worked when calculating wages, finding Monday that a trial court wrongly concluded the claims must be arbitrated under a union agreement.
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July 27, 2026
A group of Utah liquor store operators who claimed the state misclassified them as independent contractors and failed to pay overtime have moved to settle their Fair Labor Standards Act claims for $275,000, according to a motion filed Monday in Utah federal court.
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July 27, 2026
A former oilfield geologist and mud logger hit an oilfield support services company with a proposed collective action in Colorado federal court, alleging it misclassified field workers as independent contractors and denied them overtime pay.
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July 27, 2026
A recently signed California law clarifies that exemptions and exclusions from federal arbitration requirements apply to state arbitration law, closing what worker-side attorneys said was a gap in wage and hour litigation and potentially paving the way for updates in other states.
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July 27, 2026
Two former call center workers who accused a healthcare sharing nonprofit of failing to pay them for time spent booting up computers and logging into software before their shifts have settled their individual claims, according to a filing in Ohio federal court.
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July 27, 2026
FedEx agreed to pay $900,000 to close a suit claiming the company didn't compensate its service member employees who took short-term military leave but provided pay for other short-term leave such as jury duty and bereavement time, according to a Georgia federal court filing.
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July 27, 2026
New York-based truck drivers who accused a major trucking company of failing to pay them for time spent sleeping in their cabs have moved to settle their claims for $2.1 million, according to a motion filed in New York federal court.
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July 27, 2026
A New York federal judge tossed wage claims brought against Insomnia Cookies by a former delivery driver, finding that a tip theft claim was vague and that the worker failed to show that unreimbursed costs pushed her pay below the federal minimum.
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July 27, 2026
An investment bank and two managing directors are urging a Texas federal judge to toss a proposed collective action alleging employees went months without pay, arguing that the workers were exempt from overtime and had turned a contract dispute into a federal wage law case.
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July 24, 2026
Glenn Danas of Clarkson Law Firm will soon return to the California Supreme Court in a case dealing with the state’s Private Attorneys General Act, after arguing before the Ninth Circuit this month in a Motor Carrier Act exemption dispute. Danas spoke with Law360 on the sidelines of that state’s wage and hour law conference.
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July 24, 2026
Patrol lieutenants for an Arizona sheriff's department who claim they have been misclassified as overtime-exempt will take their case to a jury after a federal judge Friday denied both sides' bids for an early win and kept the collective action intact.
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July 24, 2026
Two former Citibank employees must take to arbitration their proposed class and collective claims alleging the bank underpaid workers by requiring inaccurate time reporting, a New York federal judge ruled, finding the workers entered valid arbitration agreements.
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July 24, 2026
A Nebraska federal judge approved $6 million in attorney fees and more than $1.7 million in litigation costs for class counsel in a long-running wage and hour class action brought by truck drivers against a major trucking company as part of a final approval order entered Friday.
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July 24, 2026
This week, a New York federal magistrate judge will consider a class of restaurant workers' claims that a steakhouse has not provided accurate information necessary to administer an $800,000 settlement that the two sides reached in April.
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July 24, 2026
A Virginia hospital system systematically shaved minutes off workers' pay by rounding away time worked before and after their scheduled shifts, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in Virginia federal court.
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July 24, 2026
A Colorado doctor has sued a medical billing company in state court, saying it mishandled patients' protected health information, skimmed her earnings and tried to pressure her into signing a new agreement allowing it to keep more collections after she left.
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July 24, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a final settlement approval hearing in a worker misclassification suit against Grubhub that went to the Ninth Circuit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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July 23, 2026
A Nordstrom Inc. worker has hit the Seattle-based retailer with a proposed wage-and-hour class action in Washington state court, accusing the company of failing to provide employees with legally mandated meal and rest breaks, then further failing to compensate them for the missed breaks.
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July 23, 2026
Proposed regulations impacting California's Private Attorneys General Act that have raised questions from both workers' and employers' attorneys are necessary to address a "depressing" trend of inadequate notices, a state workforce agency official said at a wage and hour conference Thursday.
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July 23, 2026
The Colorado Court of Appeals held for the first time Thursday that two Colorado statutes meant to close gender pay gaps do not require workers to allege gender discrimination, partially reviving a former human services caseworker's retaliation case against the county department she had worked for.
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July 23, 2026
Domino's Pizza LLC illegally blocked its Washington workers from moonlighting at certain businesses, a former employee claimed in a proposed class action filed Tuesday, alleging that a company conflict-of-interest policy violated two state laws barring many noncompete agreements.