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January 23, 2026
Delta Air Lines and a food service company cheated workers at airport lounges out of wages by not paying them for time spent undergoing security checks and by denying them meal and rest breaks, a worker said in a proposed class action in California state court.
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January 22, 2026
A home health company urged the Third Circuit to rethink its decision upholding a $1 million judgment against it after finding that the U.S. Department of Labor could strip third-party employers of an overtime exemption, saying the decision flouted the U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright ruling.
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January 22, 2026
Leave protections for organ donors and crime victims and increases to maximum benefit amounts are among the trends in paid leave laws that took effect this month around the U.S. Here, Law360 explores the trends.
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January 22, 2026
A Colorado federal judge Thursday gave his initial blessing to a $500,000 settlement resolving a Vitac Corp. employee's allegations that the transcription and closed captioning company didn't pay workers for preparation tasks necessary to perform their jobs, saying the immediate recovery outweighs potential future relief following expensive litigation.
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January 22, 2026
A New York City nonprofit that operates homeless shelters shaved time off of employees' hours, resulting in unpaid wages and overtime, according to a proposed class and collective action complaint filed Thursday in New York federal court.
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January 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court should maintain a ruling that a Flowers Foods distributor claiming unpaid overtime was exempt from arbitration because he engaged in interstate commerce, the National Academy of Arbitration told the high court Thursday, backing the worker.
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January 22, 2026
Littler Mendelson PC has elected New York shareholder William J. Anthony to serve as chair of its 19-member 2026 Board of Directors and named three new board members.
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January 22, 2026
The operators of a cleaning company reached a settlement with a worker who alleged they failed to appropriately pay him for his minimum, overtime and spread-of-hours wages, according to a New York federal court filing.
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January 22, 2026
A Massachusetts hotel cannot escape a $580,000 deal settling a class action and three individual wage and hour cases, the First Circuit ruled, rejecting the entity's argument that a conflict of interest arose when the plaintiffs' counsel represented both the workers in all four cases.
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January 21, 2026
The Ultimate Fighting Championship urged the Ninth Circuit to immediately stop a Nevada federal court from enforcing a "breathtakingly overbroad" discovery order in wage suppression lawsuits, saying it violates attorney-client privilege and the First Amendment.
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January 21, 2026
UPS has reached a deal to end a class action alleging the package delivery giant violated federal law by failing to pay drivers for short-term military leave despite providing compensation for jury duty and other short-term absences, according to a filing in Washington federal court.
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January 21, 2026
Drivers who worked for FedEx through intermediary entities failed to support their arguments that the freight company was their joint employer or that they worked unpaid overtime under federal wage law, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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January 21, 2026
A class of truck delivery drivers asked an Illinois federal judge Tuesday to grant preliminary approval to a $975,000 settlement resolving their lawsuit alleging a logistics company they worked for misclassified them as independent contractors.
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January 21, 2026
A Flowers Foods distributor is exempt from federal arbitration because even though he delivered goods locally, his work was part of an uninterrupted stream of interstate commerce, AFL-CIO told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, backing the worker's bid to keep his misclassification suit in court.
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January 21, 2026
Nearly 12,000 healthcare workers in a $28.5 million settlement with two hospitals that were accused of agreeing not to poach each other's doctors and nurses urged a Pennsylvania federal court to grant approximately $12 million in attorney fees, costs and service awards.
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January 20, 2026
A former DaVita worker should amend misleading consent forms she submitted for nurses and technicians seeking to join her wage action against the dialysis giant, a Colorado federal judge recommended Sunday, saying the worker also sent deceptive solicitation materials to potential opt-in plaintiffs.
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January 20, 2026
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 48 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, achieving milestones such as high-profile litigation wins at the U.S. Supreme Court and 11-figure merger deals.
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January 20, 2026
The Third Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a lower court decision setting aside a jury verdict in favor of Pennsylvania resort workers who alleged their employer unfairly kept a gratuity charged to guests, ruling in part that the workers failed to point to "evidence of the guests' intentions with respect to distribution of the gratuity fee."
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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.