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October 20, 2025
A former cook for a North Carolina-based bakery told a federal court that she reached a deal in her suit claiming she was paid a flat hourly rate that did not mirror how many hours she worked.
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October 20, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a worker misclassification suit that could further refine an exemption to the Federal Arbitration Act.
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October 17, 2025
A Nevada federal judge has denied a new trial to a nursing executive convicted of wage-fixing conspiracy and wire fraud after he claimed the U.S. Department of Justice misled the jury about sweetheart terms of a cooperation deal with another company.
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October 17, 2025
A Third Circuit ruling that the Fair Labor Standards Act's collective action opt-in mechanism is silent about the release of unasserted claims by opt-out class action members will make it easier to settle cases containing claims under both federal and state wage and hour laws, attorneys said.
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October 17, 2025
The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.
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October 17, 2025
Two settlements can move forward in a suit brought by workers at red meat processing plants who alleged that Agri Beef Co., Indiana Packers Corp. and Washington Beef LLC engaged in a conspiracy to suppress wages, a Colorado federal judge ruled, finding the deals totaling $2.5 million are fair.
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October 17, 2025
Home Depot asked a California federal judge for an early win in a former assistant store manager's proposed class action, arguing that she is not entitled to overtime pay because she was properly classified as exempt under state law.
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October 17, 2025
A recent court ruling allowing the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to move ahead with a Pregnant Workers Fairness Act case over denied pumping breaks underscores the need for employers to train managers on breastfeeding accommodations, experts said.
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October 17, 2025
A jury could reasonably find that a pair of insurance companies employed three insurance adjusters, the Eleventh Circuit ruled, flipping an Alabama district court's findings that the workers were independent contractors.
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October 17, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge has sent back to arbitration a wage-related dispute between a maintenance workers unit of the Teamsters and the company that operates greater Boston's commuter rail system, saying he recently found he has the authority to do so.
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October 17, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a former California state court executive officer's race discrimination case. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in that state.
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October 17, 2025
A former K-9 security officer for a Michigan hospital agreed to drop her claims that she was fired after disclosing that she was in a same-sex relationship and asking for back pay earned while caring for the dog, according to a Friday order.
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October 17, 2025
A billable worker told a Georgia federal court that she reached a tentative settlement with Mercedes-Benz and a staffing agency she accused of flouting the Fair Labor Standards Act by failing to pay her overtime.
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October 16, 2025
La Colombe's hourly paid production workers have received final approval of a $450,000 settlement with the coffee chain, which was accused of failing to pay them for time spent donning and doffing protective equipment before and after their shifts, according to an order by a Pennsylvania federal judge.
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October 16, 2025
Equal pay data reporting laws are part of the broader embrace of pay transparency, and though their utility lies in forcing employers to audit their pay practices, the data is imperfect, attorneys said.
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October 16, 2025
Three former Twitter executives have settled their lawsuit claiming they were deprived of millions of dollars in severance benefits following Elon Musk's takeover of the social media company, according to a filing Thursday in California federal court.
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October 16, 2025
The city of Los Angeles on Thursday beat a proposed class action alleging its police department didn't grant equal sick and vacation time to service members and passed them over for promotions because of their service obligations, weeks before jury trial was set to commence in California federal court.
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October 16, 2025
A health system in New York has been automatically deducting meal breaks and rounding hours on workers' time sheets, cheating them out of wages, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in federal court.
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October 16, 2025
A former paralegal for a Texas law firm was an independent contractor for the first four years at the firm, but an employee for the remaining two, a federal judge ruled while denying her bid to snag a win on her overtime and minimum wage claims.
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October 16, 2025
The Fair Labor Standards Act tackles only who can litigate claims and is silent on whether settlement class members who have not opted into a collective can release their claims under the federal law, the Third Circuit found Thursday.
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October 16, 2025
The full Third Circuit won't weigh whether the U.S. Department of Labor had the authority to use in-house administrative proceedings to impose more than $580,000 in fines on a New Jersey farm for what the department said were violations of the H-2A visa program.
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October 15, 2025
A former Alaska Airlines pilot's suit claiming that he should have accrued vacation and sick time while on long-term military assignments cannot stand because the company doesn't provide such a benefit to other types of leave, the airline told a Washington federal court.
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October 15, 2025
California’s new ban on stay-or-pay provisions in employment contracts brings the issue of debt repayment under wage and hour law, a change attorneys expect will largely end the use of such arrangements or lead to civil suits under a new monetary penalty.
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October 15, 2025
A Washington federal judge refused to approve a $295,000 settlement in a proposed collective action accusing a consulting company of not paying workers overtime, finding no "bona fide dispute" existed over whether the company was required to pay overtime rates and that the deal would improperly waive workers' rights.
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October 15, 2025
A New York federal judge narrowed but refused to toss a bias suit from a Black mortgage company worker who said his white boss repeatedly called him a nickname using a racial slur, ruling a reasonable jury could find he'd endured an unlawfully hostile work environment.