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August 13, 2025
GE Appliances lawfully disciplined and terminated a probationary employee who complained about the company's overtime policy, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the worker's actions were not protected under federal labor law.
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August 13, 2025
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a white Chicago city worker's suit claiming she was suspended three times by her Black boss out of racial discrimination, saying she hadn't rebutted the city's argument that performance issues, not prejudice, got her disciplined.
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August 12, 2025
A California statute waiving arbitration rights for a party that does not timely pay arbitration fees is not preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act, a split California Supreme Court ruled, saying the state law doesn't disfavor arbitration and is meant to deter parties from employing "strategic nonpayment" of fees.
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August 12, 2025
A Connecticut federal judge denied a $60,000 proposed settlement between a home health care worker and her former employer because it contained a "problematic" clause banning the worker from seeking a job from the same employer in the future.
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August 12, 2025
A New Jersey state judge has trimmed a discrimination and retaliation suit brought by a former acting director at the state's Department of Banking and Insurance, tossing her unequal pay and hostile work environment claims, but allowing her retaliation and failure to promote claims to proceed.
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August 12, 2025
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has added the former associate general counsel for private equity and venture capital firm Fifth Partners as a shareholder in its Salt Lake City office.
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August 12, 2025
The Driscoll Firm PC, which was accused of unfairly firing a paralegal after she disclosed her cancer recurrence, told a North Carolina federal court it should be freed from the lawsuit because the former worker didn't allege she was guaranteed protection under several federal laws.
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August 11, 2025
A Nevada federal court has rejected a ranching association's latest attempt to claim immunity from a proposed class action accusing the association and its members of conspiring to suppress the wages of sheepherders who are working on temporary visas.
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August 11, 2025
A New York federal magistrate judge has recommended preserving a proposed class action that accuses Con Edison and its subcontractors of failing to pay overtime wages to workers who directed traffic at the utility company's job sites.
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August 11, 2025
President Donald Trump’s mandate that the U.S. Department of Labor weigh in on the status of college-athletes could result in a rule or guidance that declares them employees or non-employees, which could impact which wage and hour protections apply. Here, Law360 explores what the DOL could say on the issue.
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August 11, 2025
The Eighth Circuit on Monday revived a First Amendment challenge to a Minnesota school district policy that allows teachers to take paid leave to work for their union, saying the district spending public funds on benefits for teachers engaged in political actions gave residents standing to sue as taxpayers.
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August 11, 2025
The pro se plaintiff seeking to revive wage claims against retired Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner has filed an opposed motion asking the circuit's chief judge to request U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts assign out-of-circuit judges to preside over the case, arguing the circuit judges cannot be impartial.
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August 11, 2025
Fisher Phillips is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Monday a Kahana Feld LLP labor and employment ace is returning to the firm as a partner its Orange County office in Irvine, California.
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August 08, 2025
A California federal court must grant class certification to truck drivers at a construction materials company that allegedly underpaid workers by rounding on time cards, a former employee argued, saying the workers did not receive accurate wage statements.
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August 08, 2025
This week, a New York federal judge will consider whether to order a homeless shelter operator to bargain with a Service Employees International Union affiliate over allegations that the nonprofit refused to bargain with the union and threatened workers over their union activity. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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August 08, 2025
The Ninth Circuit said Friday it won't weigh a panel's decision that Cracker Barrel servers from only the state where a wage suit originated should be kept in a collective action, and turned down the restaurant chain's bid to reevaluate the first step of the certification process.
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August 08, 2025
A Kentucky federal judge expressed lingering concerns despite giving initial approval to a $5 million settlement for claims from Papa John's employees over its past use of no-poach provisions in its franchise agreements after rejecting a previous approval bid.
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August 08, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in Amazon's challenge to the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board's structure. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 08, 2025
A former X employee was fired after writing on Slack about a "kill command" that could have turned off the website, according to the social media company, telling a California federal court that his Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act suit can't stand.
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August 08, 2025
New York business law firm Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP has hired an attorney from Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP as a partner in its labor and employment practice group, the firm announced.
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August 08, 2025
The pay disparity between a Black female corrections lieutenant and two white male lieutenants was rooted in civil service pay rules and job differences, not gender and race-based discrimination, an Alabama federal judge ruled.
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August 07, 2025
Two separate royalty disputes — one $90 million, the other $4 million — involving two giants in the alcoholic beverages market are among the top corporate cases that crossed Connecticut court dockets in the first half of 2025.
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August 07, 2025
A property management firm has been sued in Georgia federal court by a former employee who alleged she was discriminated against and eventually fired after being diagnosed with ovarian fibroids requiring a hysterectomy and hernia repair.
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August 07, 2025
A healthcare consulting company agreed to pay $16 million in a lawsuit accusing it of misclassifying care coordinators as overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act, about 200 workers said in a settlement approval bid filed in New Mexico federal court Thursday.
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August 07, 2025
A new framework the Seventh Circuit laid out for certifying collective actions in wage and hour litigation has attorneys for both employers and workers at first blush feeling relieved, as the panel majority put forward a flexible approach that gives lower courts discretion.