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January 20, 2026
An aerospace and electronics defense contractor has reached a $450,000 agreement with its employees to settle class action allegations that workers were shorted by being paid straight time for overtime work, according to a copy of the agreement filed in Maryland federal court.
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January 20, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor would receive $13.7 billion in discretionary funding under a bipartisan bill that the U.S. House and Senate appropriations committees released Tuesday, including $260 million for the Wage and Hour Division, more than President Donald Trump and Republicans had previously proposed.
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January 20, 2026
Elevance Health agreed Tuesday to settle claims from three dozen registered nurses, assigned to evaluate insurance claims, that they were denied overtime pay, bringing an early close to a bench trial that kicked off in Georgia federal court last week.
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January 20, 2026
A Domino's franchisee has agreed to pay $1.18 million to settle a suit that took a trip to the Sixth Circuit and accused the company of failing to reimburse drivers for all vehicle-related expenses, the workers told an Ohio federal court.
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January 20, 2026
A home healthcare company and an aide agreed to end a proposed class and collective action alleging the employer failed to compensate workers for the time spent traveling between patients' homes, according to an Ohio federal court filing.
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January 20, 2026
The Supreme Court needs to pick up a wage and hour case challenging the evidentiary standard of the two-step certification process to certify collectives, Cracker Barrel urged the justices, arguing that their intervention is paramount to establish the same certification process in all courts.
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January 20, 2026
Cracker Barrel servers urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up an appeal of a Ninth Circuit decision that only Arizona employees could opt in to a collective suit over tipped wages, rebutting the restaurant chain's arguments that a circuit split on the issue will resolve itself.
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January 16, 2026
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2025, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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January 16, 2026
Littler Mendelson PC announced that an attorney from Epstein Becker Green is joining its Century City, California, office as a shareholder, bringing a wealth of experience in employment law.
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January 16, 2026
A Washington state judge on Thursday granted preliminary approval to US Foods' $2.4 million class action settlement with nearly 3,000 current and former workers who alleged the food service retailer systematically shorted them on breaks, overtime pay, sick leave and expense reimbursements.
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January 16, 2026
Walgreens has agreed to pay $2.5 million to a class of workers who accused the pharmacy chain of not paying their final paychecks on time, the workers said Friday, urging an Oregon federal court to greenlight the settlement.
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January 16, 2026
An Illinois federal judge should preserve a proposed class action accusing Southwest Airlines of systematically depriving flight attendants at Chicago Midway International Airport of overtime pay, a former flight attendant said, fighting Southwest's argument that the Railway Labor Act preempts the claims because the flight attendants are unionized.
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January 16, 2026
One year after the U.S. Supreme Court held that courts should not use a heightened evidence standard for Fair Labor Standards Act exemption disputes, the holding is turning up in other types of cases, even if its impact is somewhat limited, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores the ruling and how it has played out.
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January 16, 2026
A California appellate panel on Thursday approved an attorney fee award for a lawyer in dispute with his former firm but also denied that attorney's attempt to get attorney fees for a post-arbitration hearing.
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January 16, 2026
A former city employee of Cape May, New Jersey, claims it failed to properly pay its hourly employees for working overtime, according to a proposed collective action filed in state court.
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January 16, 2026
A group of nurses should proceed as a class in a suit accusing a healthcare company of excluding holiday premiums from their pay when they worked overtime, a Colorado magistrate judge found.
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January 16, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider TikTok's bid to overturn a federal judge's decision keeping a former executive's age and gender bias suit in court instead of sending it to arbitration.
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January 16, 2026
An aviation company failed to factor into air traffic controllers' regular rate of pay shift differentials, Sunday premium pay and other additional forms of compensation, according to a proposed collective action in Oklahoma federal court.
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January 15, 2026
Two attorneys who said they had "irreconcilable differences" with nurse practitioners who did not meet their contractual financial obligations can withdraw their representation in a minimum wage lawsuit against their employer, a North Carolina federal magistrate judge ruled.
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January 15, 2026
As Democrat Phil Murphy concludes his second term as governor, New Jersey's economy reflects a mix of lasting reforms, pandemic‑era scars and regulatory shifts that continue to shape how businesses operate and workers are protected in the Garden State.
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January 15, 2026
The Ninth Circuit ignored intergovernmental immunity when it ruled that the GEO Group needed to follow Washington's minimum wage to pay detainees in a voluntary work program, the private prison operator told the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to weigh in.
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January 15, 2026
The Fourth Circuit has dismissed a lawsuit accusing an international food distributor of unpaid overtime, almost a year to the day the U.S. Supreme Court held in the case that the Fair Labor Standards Act's exemptions do not call for heightened evidence standards, according to a court filing.
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January 15, 2026
A global renewable energy company held on to employees' bonuses and retaliated against a worker who questioned his salary and asked for disability accommodations, according to an individual and proposed class action filed in Colorado state court.
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January 15, 2026
An Illinois ambulance services company will pay $225,000 to end a suit alleging it violated wage law by only paying employees overtime when they worked more than 80 hours in a two-week period, according to a federal judge's order approving the deal.
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January 14, 2026
Office Depot LLC and a plaintiff accusing the company of violating a Washington state pay-transparency law clashed over class certification in separate motions in Seattle federal court, with the office supply giant attacking the proposed class as "unidentifiable and uncertifiable."