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July 29, 2026
A former private jet company executive failed to plausibly allege that she was denied a promotion, underpaid, subjected to a hostile workplace or forced to resign because she is a woman, a North Carolina federal magistrate judge said in recommending dismissal of her federal claims.
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July 29, 2026
An aviation company that spent over two years litigating a wage and hour class action in federal court before seeking arbitration lost its chance to compel individual arbitration, the Ninth Circuit ruled, saying the company's prolonged litigation conduct amounted to a waiver of its arbitration rights.
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July 28, 2026
Amazon will pay $2 million to resolve Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go store workers' accusations that the e-commerce giant failed to provide them with meal and rest breaks required under Washington state law, according to a settlement given final approval by a Pierce County judge.
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July 28, 2026
DoorDash must pay $14.5 million in taxes and penalties for failing to pay its Dashers' industrial insurance premiums each quarter from 2017 to 2019, Washington appellate judges ruled Tuesday, finding the Dashers were covered workers under state law since their personal labor was the essence of their contracts.
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July 28, 2026
A Connecticut state judge refused to decertify a class of steakhouse servers alleging they were shorted on wages for untipped work, ruling their attorney's emotional and unprofessional conduct did not cast serious doubt on the court's ability to reach a just outcome.
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July 28, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge has tossed a worker's bid to force his former employer to pay a $25,000 settlement, finding the court lacks the authority to enforce the agreement because it was never incorporated into a court order.
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July 28, 2026
The Eighth Circuit affirmed a quartz-surface manufacturer's win in a former process engineering technician's suit alleging he was unlawfully fired while on medical leave, finding Tuesday the employer eliminated his position because production was slowing and he had less seniority.
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July 28, 2026
A former server who accused Bob Evans Restaurants LLC of requiring tipped employees to perform nontipped work while paying them subminimum tipped wages has settled her individual claims against the restaurant chain, according to court filings in Ohio federal court.
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July 28, 2026
Manual laborers who claim a North Carolina staffing company shorted them on wages urged a federal judge to keep their overtime collective intact, arguing that uniform timekeeping failures and coercive time-sheet practices tie all collective members together regardless of which job site they worked.
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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.