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November 17, 2025
The D.C. Court of Appeals revived a former Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP associate's lawsuit alleging the firm reneged on its promises to pay tuition reimbursement and productivity bonuses, saying the trial court should have conducted "a fuller analysis" before shutting the book on the case.
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November 17, 2025
Tyson Foods has been accused of systematically shorting Washington state workers on breaks, sick leave and overtime pay, according to a proposed class action the meat processing giant removed to federal court on Friday.
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November 17, 2025
A coalition of 21 states and two business groups told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that lower courts' allegedly premature certification of collective actions drives up the cost of litigation and forces employers into multimillion-dollar settlements, backing Eli Lilly & Co. in a worker's age bias case.
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November 17, 2025
A McDonald's franchise operator and the operator of Jack in the Box restaurants asked the Washington Supreme Court to clear up the reach of a state law requiring job postings to list pay information in two related cases involving Houston Casualty Co.
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November 17, 2025
A Georgia-based staffing and project management agency has agreed to pay nearly $450,000 to two dozen former workers who accused it of stiffing them on overtime by "slapping a 'salary' label" on their paychecks, according to a deal a federal judge approved Monday.
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November 17, 2025
An attorney who accused Debevoise & Plimpton LLP of unlawfully refusing to rehire him because he took protected medical leave has urged a New York federal court not to dismiss his suit or send it before an arbitrator, arguing an arbitration provision in an earlier settlement does not apply to new claims.
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November 17, 2025
Cameron W. Fox, chair of Paul Hastings LLP's traditional labor practice group and partner in its employment law department, persevered through a trial during the Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles and secured a win for Levi Strauss & Co. in a discrimination case where the jury reached a unanimous verdict in less than 20 minutes, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 17, 2025
Delta Air Lines should not be able to end a former employee's suit that said the company's understaffing issues forced workers to miss their meal and rest breaks, a former worker said, telling a Washington state federal court that she supported her claims well enough.
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November 17, 2025
A New York-based beer distributor has agreed to pay $1 million to more than 1,675 drivers and helpers who claimed they were not properly paid overtime under state law, the workers told a federal court, asking it to greenlight the deal.
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November 17, 2025
Anheuser-Busch can continue challenging a Virginia federal court's decision granting class certification and declining to untangle a collective of workers seeking unpaid wages for work performed outside their shifts, the Fourth Circuit ruled.
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November 14, 2025
Former employees suing JetBlue for allegedly shorting them on breaks and wages are urging a Washington state judge to block the airline's alleged efforts to coerce members of a proposed class into settlements, contending management has pressured workers to sign releases amid looming downsizing plans.
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November 14, 2025
Junior hockey players have asked the Ninth Circuit to reverse a lower court toss of their wage suppression suit against the National Hockey League and Canadian leagues, arguing that the territorial reach of U.S. antitrust laws gives United States federal courts jurisdiction.
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November 14, 2025
The Family and Medical Leave Act doesn't contemplate qualified immunity, a former Virginia city assistant attorney told the Fourth Circuit on Thursday, arguing that a municipal attorney cannot appeal a federal court's decision to let his FMLA suit go to trial.
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November 14, 2025
A Colorado mining company failed to pay workers for time spent putting on protective gear and attending meetings, a former lead man and heavy equipment operator alleged in a proposed collective action in federal court.
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November 14, 2025
Jason C. Schwartz, co-chair of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's labor and employment practice, convinced Maryland's Supreme Court to create new case law in favor of his client Amazon clarifying the state's wage and hour statutes, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 14, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a hearing on a potential $50 million deal to resolve a proposed racial discrimination class action against Google. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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November 14, 2025
New York City failed to pay its Department of Homeless Services special officers and sergeants for all the hours they worked, basing their pay on their scheduled hours instead, according to a suit in New York federal court that could include more than 460 workers' claims.
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November 14, 2025
PetSmart agreed to pay the state of Colorado $225,000 to end a suit accusing it of tricking dog groomers into contracts with training repayment agreement provisions that forced them to pay up to $5,500 if they left the company before working there for two years, the state's attorney general said.
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November 13, 2025
Workers in Washington state could now turn to a new unit that will focus on enforcing protections and tackling wage theft, the state's attorney general announced Thursday, citing "a systematic dismantling of the U.S. Department of Labor."
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November 13, 2025
Seventeen transgender service members are accusing the U.S. Air Force of unlawfully rescinding their retirement orders following President Donald Trump's executive order barring transgender people in the military, saying in a lawsuit that the move resulted in lost pay and benefits.
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November 13, 2025
A $525,000 deal between a school bus company and nearly 2,000 drivers accusing it of miscalculating their overtime rate can move forward, an Illinois federal court said Thursday.
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November 13, 2025
The Hawaii Supreme Court will sort out whether a per-week or a per-hour unit should apply in the determining of compliance and damages under the state's minimum wage law, a federal court said in a case accusing a Waldorf Astoria resort of misclassifying spa workers as independent contractors.
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November 13, 2025
Jennifer A. Riley of Duane Morris LLP helped Geico defeat conditional certification in a nationwide collective action, defended an industrial staffing company from California state law claims and helped several companies negotiate favorable settlements of wage and hour claims, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 13, 2025
An emergency medical transport company operating in Ohio and West Virginia flubbed overtime calculations, deducted wages to cover required training costs and zeroed out final paychecks, a former employee has alleged in a proposed collective action in Ohio federal court.
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November 13, 2025
AutoZone has settled a Massachusetts employee's lawsuit claiming he was demoted because he took medical leave to deal with stress exacerbated by a supervisor's ageist comments, according to a federal court filing.