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April 22, 2025
Washington state troopers can sue their employer directly in superior court over alleged minimum wage violations before exhausting the grievance process under collective bargaining agreements, an Evergreen State appellate court said Tuesday, distinguishing the challenged policies from the union contracts.
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April 22, 2025
A Georgia federal judge ended a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia, brought by a former juvenile court employee who said her firing constituted age and disability discrimination, ruling Tuesday that there was no dispute it was the court — not the county — that she should have sued.
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April 22, 2025
Six temporary workers claimed in a potential class action filed Monday that salad kit maker Fresh Express failed to train them to operate dangerous equipment or mitigate safety risks and that the staffing agencies that sent them there failed to pay wages comparable to what their hired employees make in violation of Illinois law.
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April 22, 2025
Wells Fargo cannot shut down a senior finance manager's lawsuit alleging she faced backlash after she sought to work remotely because of health issues, the employee told a North Carolina federal court, saying she put forward enough detail to show she suffered discriminatory actions.
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April 22, 2025
A North Carolina sheriff's office reached a deal with a class of detention center employees to end their lawsuit alleging they were underpaid because the sheriff paid them for a flat number of hours without considering that their work schedules varied, according to a filing in federal court.
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April 22, 2025
A search-and-rescue helicopter company is a common carrier by air that engages in interstate commerce and therefore can escape a proposed collective action brought by a group of employees who claimed unpaid overtime, a Louisiana federal judge ruled.
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April 22, 2025
The owner of a construction company had the power typical of an employer and therefore can't dodge claims that he didn't pay workers' overtime, a former employee told a New York federal court.
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April 22, 2025
The NCAA has officially adopted policy changes that will allow college athletes to be paid, to go into effect when the $2.78 billion antitrust settlement between schools and athletes receives final court approval.
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April 22, 2025
Aviation services provider Swissport will pay more than $3.1 million in penalties and restitution to workers at Boston's Logan International Airport to settle allegations that it violated Massachusetts wage laws, the state attorney general's office announced Tuesday.
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April 22, 2025
A banking company and a former worker agreed to end his proposed collective action accusing the bank of creating fraudulent time records that understated how long loan officers worked to avoid paying them overtime wages, a Texas federal court filing said.
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April 21, 2025
Pay transparency litigation in Washington state highlights the enforcement challenges associated with defining who is a job applicant and offers lessons to other jurisdictions on how to balance these laws' goals with facilitating compliance, attorneys say.
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April 21, 2025
A California judge indicated Monday she may send to arbitration a former JPMorgan Chase Bank worker's individual claim brought under the Private Attorneys General Act alleging the bank encouraged workers to perform off-the-clock work but failed to pay them accordingly, issuing a tentative order that would split off her representative claims and pause them.
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April 21, 2025
New Jersey's attorney general on Monday announced a lawsuit against a general contractor and a group of subcontractors for shorting workers on wages and benefits during the construction of a Jersey City luxury high-rise.
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April 21, 2025
Workers who sued a project management company for allegedly failing to pay proper overtime rates have asked a Georgia federal judge for summary judgment, arguing the company pays employees based on the number of hours worked and, therefore, fails the salary basis test for an overtime exemption.
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April 21, 2025
The arbitration awards a group of X workers tried to present to a Delaware federal court don't add anything to their suit claiming the social media platform owes them additional severance payments, the court ruled, striking them from the docket.
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April 21, 2025
Potential members of a collective action accusing Amazon of misclassifying drivers were not coerced into talking to attorneys representing the company, Amazon told a Washington federal court, urging the court to reject the drivers' bid to slap sanctions on the company.
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April 21, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice is defending a key wage-fixing and fraud conviction of a Nevada nursing executive, hitting back at the executive's claims that it used privileged documents and communications to sway the jury during the three-week trial.
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April 21, 2025
HCA Healthcare Inc. asked a North Carolina federal court to press pause on a respiratory therapist's class and collective action accusing the company of manipulating workers' time sheets to pay them less overtime wages, saying the parties are planning to attend mediation in July.
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April 21, 2025
A claims management company paid a former executive less than three of her male colleagues with the same work duties, then fired her after she filed a charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she told a Georgia federal court.
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April 21, 2025
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP announced Monday that the firm has fortified its employment class action group with a partner in San Francisco who came aboard from Morrison Foerster LLP.
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April 21, 2025
An attorney cannot sustain his lawsuit accusing the city of Martinsville, Virginia, of unlawfully firing him after he requested leave to care for his mother, the city told a federal court, saying it had no power to terminate him because it was not his employer.
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April 21, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review a Fifth Circuit decision finding a welding inspector was an independent contractor, not an employee, and therefore not entitled to Fair Labor Standards Act coverage.
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April 18, 2025
It's too soon to determine whether a landscaping company should be sanctioned for its attorneys' failure to produce accurate lists of its current and former employees in a class action alleging unpaid overtime, a Kansas federal judge said, saying both sides' attorneys need to meet.
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April 18, 2025
The Office of Personnel Management on Friday proposed a rule that would give President Donald Trump's administration the power to hire and fire some 50,000 career federal employees, a move that federal worker unions say will allow the president "to replace qualified public servants with political cronies."
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April 18, 2025
A former chief counsel for Sunoco LP sued her ex-employer in Texas state court Wednesday, alleging she was denied promotional opportunities and later terminated due to her age, while also accusing the company of replacing attorneys older than 50 with significantly younger attorneys with less experience.