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January 29, 2026
A former worker asked the Eleventh Circuit Thursday to order a new trial in a suit accusing an Alabama steel mill of failing to fully compensate him for hours worked and overtime, arguing there was nothing to support the jury awarding him $0 in Fair Labor Standards Act damages.
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January 29, 2026
Security guards at private buildings in New York City will be entitled to the same minimum wage, paid time off and benefits received by security guards at public buildings under a new union-supported city law enacted Thursday.
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January 29, 2026
A Fourth Circuit panel misapplied Supreme Court precedent governing when employees are paid on a salary basis in finding that battalion chiefs for the Alexandria, Virginia, fire department qualified for an overtime exemption, the chiefs argued, urging the full appeals court to revisit a decision denying their bid to revive a wage suit.
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January 29, 2026
Walmart, a related entity and a collective of workers claiming they were misclassified as salaried employees exempt from overtime will head to settlement talks for the Fair Labor Standards Act suit, a Colorado federal judge said.
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January 29, 2026
A Colorado federal judge ordered a Texas attorney representing a company accused of luring temporary agricultural workers to the U.S. through false promises to explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned for missing a telephone discovery hearing.
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January 29, 2026
A Michigan law providing employees with earned sick time should stay in place because it has no impact on airlines' prices, routes or services, the state has argued, urging a federal court to turn down a national airline trade group's bid to halt the law.
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January 29, 2026
Casey's General Stores and managers reached a settlement in a collective action alleging the convenience store chain and two subsidiaries misclassified them as exempt from overtime pay, according to an Indiana federal judge's order.
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January 29, 2026
A Colorado mining company rounded employees' hours, forced them to work off the clock and failed to include bonuses in their overtime rates, according to a proposed collective action filed in federal court.
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January 28, 2026
TEKsystems Inc. engaged in misleading and coercive actions when it provided an arbitration pact to technology recruiters seeking unpaid overtime nearly two years after they lodged their suit, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday, affirming a California federal court decision.
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January 28, 2026
New Jersey suppliers can't rely on an exemption for the construction industry to avoid complying with the state's Earned Sick Leave Law, an appellate panel found Wednesday as a matter of first impression, finding the law only allows builders to claim the exemption to the law.
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January 28, 2026
A Sixth Circuit panel appeared unmoved Wednesday by Michigan Technological University's effort to undo a former professor's pregnancy bias win but also skeptical of resurrecting additional bias and pay disparity claims that had been trimmed from the case prior to trial.
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January 28, 2026
Solar panel company Sunrun Inc. misclassified its sales representatives as independent contractors in violation of Massachusetts workers' compensation law, a coalition of advocacy groups alleged in a complaint filed in state court.
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January 28, 2026
A California appeals court's decision that Amazon drivers' last-mile deliveries constituted interstate commerce exempt from arbitration clears up an important question of law, California's attorney general said, asking the court to publish the opinion.
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January 28, 2026
A disability services nonprofit has agreed to pay $76,500 to settle a suit accusing it of failing to pay call center employees for work before shifts and during unpaid meal breaks and of miscalculating their overtime, the workers told a Virginia federal court.
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January 27, 2026
A former attorney at the Colorado public defender's office told a state court Tuesday that it underpays and overworks its employees and fired him for complaining about it, though the office responded that the reality of balancing public defenders' workloads is more nuanced than the study he cited suggested.
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February 12, 2026
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January 27, 2026
People who deliver goods, handle repairs and housekeeping, and care for pets are among the types of gig workers who could see future protections typically reserved for employees, attorneys said as a new minimum pay standard took effect in New York City.
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January 27, 2026
Tyson Foods Inc. shouldn't dodge a proposed class action accusing the company of flouting meal and rest break requirements and not paying workers correctly, a worker told a Washington federal court Monday, arguing that she supported her claims well enough at this stage of the litigation.
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January 27, 2026
Fourth Circuit precedent establishes that state wage and hour laws are not preempted by federal law, a Butterball turkey catcher argued, urging the full appeals court to revisit a panel's decision denying his bid to revive his wage suit.
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January 27, 2026
Automotive parts retailer O'Reilly urged a North Carolina federal court to toss a proposed class and collective action brought by a former driver over its pay system, arguing it was not the drivers' employer and they were not promised or entitled to overtime pay.
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January 26, 2026
Puerto Rico's professional baseball league on Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to disturb the sport's century-old exemption from antitrust law, arguing that the justices have rejected similar challenges to the shield time and time again.
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January 26, 2026
A Colorado company subjects all its tractor-trailer drivers to the same illegal policy of considering them overtime-exempt under federal law, a group of migrant workers said, urging a Colorado federal court to greenlight a collective.
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January 26, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel temporarily paused a Nevada federal court's discovery order in wage suppression lawsuits against UFC after the mixed martial arts organization said the order violated attorney-client privilege and the First Amendment.
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January 26, 2026
A marketing and advertising services company misclassified employees as exempt from overtime even though their job duties did not meet the required standards for the carveout, according to a proposed collective action filed in Missouri federal court.
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January 26, 2026
A New York home healthcare services company has agreed to pay $6 million in a suit accusing it of not paying aides working 24-hour live-in shifts for all their hours, the aides told a federal court, urging it to sign off on the deal.