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July 16, 2026
A Utah federal judge kept alive a former employee's preshift overtime claim in a proposed collective action against a drilling services company, while tossing his rounding, bonus and per diem allegations and most Minnesota wage claims, according to an order.
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July 16, 2026
Kroger was hit with a proposed class and collective action in Georgia federal court alleging the company automatically deducted 30-minute meal breaks from delivery drivers' hours and failed to pay Illinois workers for mandatory security screenings.
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July 16, 2026
Democrats in Congress are seeking to eliminate the tip credit, while federal Republican lawmakers are proposing to make it easier to classify employees as tipped workers whom employers can pay below minimum wage. Here, Law360 looks at three pieces of pending tipped wages legislation.
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July 15, 2026
Federal appeals courts had wide-ranging successes and struggles during the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed term: One had its best showing in years following its worst showing in years; one felt déjà vu after recently starting to find favor with the justices; and one saw its reputation for independence occupy a rare role in the Supreme Court spotlight.
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July 15, 2026
Advocates for and against eliminating the tip credit believe their arguments are gaining momentum, but the situation is more complex, as efforts to end the lower minimum wage in Chicago and Washington, D.C., have advanced but in a manner that is more scaled back than initially intended.
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July 15, 2026
Atlantic City's Golden Nugget casino moved Wednesday to cash out of a table game dealer's proposed class action alleging its tip pool practices and mandatory rest period policy violated federal and state wage laws, arguing the claims fail on multiple grounds including that a key federal regulation underpinning the lawsuit was vacated.
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July 15, 2026
Northrop Grumman shorted California workers by rounding recorded time, automatically deducting 30-minute meal periods and requiring off-the-clock work, according to a proposed class action and California's Private Attorneys General Act suit lodged against the aerospace and defense contractor in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
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July 15, 2026
A North Carolina sports bar urged a federal court to slash a former manager's bid for nearly $431,000 in attorney fees following her jury win on a claim that the restaurant's owner sexually harassed her, arguing the worker inflated the total with unnecessary costs and lofty rates.
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July 15, 2026
A Colorado federal judge gave final approval Wednesday to a $500,000 settlement resolving claims that a transcription and closed captioning company failed to pay workers for preparation tasks they performed before their official shift start times.
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July 15, 2026
A United Airlines Inc. subsidiary and a class of airport cleaning workers have reached an agreement in principle to settle a lawsuit alleging the company failed to properly pay overtime for voluntary shift trades, a Colorado federal court filing shows.
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July 15, 2026
A Michigan nursing home operator violated federal labor law by telling two workers not to talk about their pay and firing them after they threatened to take their complaints to the National Labor Relations Board, an agency judge has found.
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July 15, 2026
Retail clothing company Anthropologie has directed store managers to systematically alter employee time records in an electronic timekeeping system to reduce recorded work hours and avoid paying overtime, a former employee said in a suit filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
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July 14, 2026
A D.C. federal judge has rejected a Black property manager's claims that her former employer paid her less than male and white colleagues and retaliated against her after she raised pay concerns, finding the company's pay decisions were driven by experience and property size rather than race or sex.
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July 14, 2026
Over two dozen Meta employees accused the tech giant of unlawfully picking them to be laid off using artificial intelligence tools that penalized people who took protected leave or received workplace accommodations, and they urged a California federal court to suspend their terminations until their legal claims are resolved.
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July 14, 2026
An artificial intelligence executive with more than two decades of experience at McKinsey was named the new chief innovation officer at Paul Hastings LLP on Monday.
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July 14, 2026
Four former pet care employees have sued PetSmart in Colorado state court alleging the company denied them meal breaks and rest periods, failed to pay them for off-the-clock work and improperly calculated their overtime pay.
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July 14, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday that it will convene in a week to consider its plan to scuttle its decades-old requirements mandating that certain employers report their workplace demographics.
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July 14, 2026
An auto parts maker and factory workers filed competing bids for early wins in parallel federal wage suits, with the workers alleging willful pay-shaving practices and the manufacturer arguing that the disputed minutes were too trivial to compensate, according to filings in North Carolina federal court.
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July 14, 2026
A North Carolina city asked a federal court to dismantle a collective action brought by police officers alleging they were not properly compensated for preshift and postshift work, arguing the officers' claims are too individualized to proceed as a group.
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July 13, 2026
A chain of marijuana dispensaries operating under the Catalyst brand has agreed to pay $300,000 in order to end claims it denied overtime pay, meal breaks and cellphone reimbursements to thousands of workers, with a Los Angeles County court giving its blessing to the settlement Friday.
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July 13, 2026
A staffing company accused of failing to provide laborers with required employment notices and assignment-related disclosures in violation of Illinois law said it is entitled to a defense under its commercial lines policies, telling a federal court that its insurer wrongfully refused coverage for the proposed class action.
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July 13, 2026
An Illinois custom sign fabricator violated federal labor law by firing an employee over wage discussions with co-workers, a National Labor Relations Board judge held, finding the company would not have terminated him absent that protected activity.
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July 13, 2026
A Los Angeles judge dismissed a lawsuit Monday by an artificial intelligence researcher who alleged the company ignored numerous laws in a frantic attempt to catch up to its artificial intelligence rivals after the parties reached an out-of-court settlement.
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July 13, 2026
A UPS package driver asked a Colorado federal court to rule in his favor on key issues in a proposed class action alleging the delivery giant failed to provide paid sick leave to thousands of union workers, arguing there are no disputed facts that could save the company's position.
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July 13, 2026
A South Carolina video game retailer violated federal labor law by firing an employee for breaching an overly broad nondisclosure agreement during a discussion about a manager's wages and performance, a National Labor Relations Board judge held, ruling that the former employee's statements were protected.