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October 22, 2025
Sales workers of a John Deere retailer can pursue as a collective their claims that they were misclassified as overtime-exempt, a Georgia federal judge said Wednesday, granting their unchallenged bid for conditional certification.
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October 21, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court may finally settle whether last-mile drivers are part of interstate transportation and thus exempt from federal arbitration requirements, leaving experts wondering just how far the high court will go toward resolving an issue that continually bogs down litigation.
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October 21, 2025
A $515,000 deal to settle a suit accusing Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America of only paying workers based on their scheduled shifts will go forward, an Ohio federal judge ruled, finding the settlement fair and reasonable.
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October 21, 2025
A Seventh Circuit decision introducing yet another standard to certify collective actions deepens a split that the U.S. Supreme Court should address, Eli Lilly & Co. said, urging the justices to take up an age discrimination case against the pharmaceutical company.
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October 21, 2025
Amazon misclassifies its Flex program drivers as independent contractors, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said in a suit, leading to millions of dollars in unpaid wages and benefits.
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October 21, 2025
A suit accusing United Airlines of conspiring to underpay workers is related to another case in which flight attendants are bringing a grievance to arbitration without the Teamsters' support, a California federal judge ruled, turning down a worker's arguments that the cases didn't overlap.
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October 20, 2025
A new California law modifies employers' pay disclosure obligations, but its expansion of workers' ability to sue and recover damages for pay discrimination violations may ultimately be the statute's lasting legacy, attorneys say.
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October 20, 2025
Two security guards asked a Colorado federal judge Monday to reject a security company's bid for a win in their proposed class action, claiming the company's representations about the security guards committing time fraud were false.
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October 20, 2025
The operators of a New York City hotel have failed to fully pay a roughly $1.1 million arbitration award stemming from a wage and benefits dispute, a hotel and hospitality workers union said, urging a New York federal court to order the entities to comply with the award.
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October 20, 2025
TikTok urged a Washington state court to toss an applicant's proposed class action claiming the video platform failed to include salary information in job listings, arguing the worker leading the case and dozens of others couldn't show he was harmed by the omission.
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October 20, 2025
A bricklayer and a refractory contractor told a Pennsylvania federal court Monday that they agreed to end a proposed class action claiming the company failed to pay workers for the time they spent shuttling to and from the construction of a petrochemical plant.
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October 20, 2025
A New Jersey appellate panel on Monday questioned a concrete supplier's assertion that it complied with the state's Earned Sick Leave Law even without differentiating between workers' vacation time and paid sick leave.
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October 20, 2025
A Texas personal injury law firm argued that a federal judge was mistaken when he ruled that a paralegal was an independent contractor for only the first part of her tenure, urging the court to reconsider the decision days before a trial in the wage case.
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October 20, 2025
The Third Circuit conflicted with U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it scrapped a $3.5 million win for a pipe fitters and plumbers union that found a commercial real estate company failed to properly factor overtime in pension contributions, the union argued as it asked the Circuit Court to rethink its opinion.
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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.