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June 10, 2025
Hundreds of private attorneys in Massachusetts who are paid by the state to represent indigent defendants and others have stopped accepting new court-appointed cases over complaints about low pay, putting the system on what one veteran advocate called "the verge of imploding."
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June 10, 2025
An attorney who has focused his career on advising clients on employment and labor matters recently moved his practice to Fisher Phillips' Pittsburgh office after 13 years with Reed Smith LLP.
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June 10, 2025
Pension credits bought by military service members aren't an accrued benefit under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, Nevada's public employee retirement system argued, urging the Ninth Circuit not to revive the U.S. Department of Justice's suit alleging the state and system overcharged employees for the credits.
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June 10, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to weigh in on a case that would have had an impact on a former Amazon employee's request for class status in her military leave suit, the worker told a New York federal court, saying it should reopen her suit and approve class treatment.
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June 10, 2025
FedEx exercised substantial control over drivers' jobs, two former workers told a Pennsylvania federal court, urging it to find that the delivery company acted as their joint employer and is therefore on the hook for what they said are unpaid overtime wages.
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June 10, 2025
An Atlanta bar that provides drag show entertainment has agreed to pay $50,000 to end a performer's proposed collective action alleging it failed to pay minimum wage and overtime, and both parties urged a Georgia federal court to greenlight the deal.
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June 09, 2025
A group of Emirates ex-employees who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic asked a New York federal judge to certify their lawsuit against the airline as a class action, saying their discrimination, benefits and WARN Act claims apply to many ex-workers and should be processed collectively.
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June 09, 2025
A six-person jury in New York awarded more than $6.1 million in damages to the former general counsel of now-defunct firm Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik LLP on her claim that the firm attacked her reputation after she sued for sex discrimination 10 years ago.
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June 09, 2025
A tech company that partners with banks to offer home improvement loans failed to pay customer service workers for the time they spent booting up and shutting down their computers before and after their scheduled shifts, a former employee said in a suit filed in Georgia federal court.
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June 09, 2025
Loan assistants and processors can proceed as a collective in their suit alleging a mortgage firm discouraged them from reporting overtime and failed to compensate them for that extra time, a California federal judge ruled, finding the workers backed up their claims that they were subject to the same policy.
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June 09, 2025
A proposed Connecticut class action accusing Yale University of paying salaried employees on a monthly basis, rather than weekly or bi-weekly as required by state law, has been withdrawn, court records show.
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June 09, 2025
A New Jersey trial court made a mistake when it ruled that commissions are not wages, a state appeals panel said Monday, reviving a sales executive's wage and hour suit against a technology services company.
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June 09, 2025
Two packing material manufacturers agreed to pay $150,000 to end a lawsuit accusing them of not paying employees for the time they spent donning and doffing personal protective equipment, two workers told an Indiana federal court.
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June 09, 2025
Neither an aerospace and electronics defense company nor a collective of workers can get a pre-trial win in the employees' suit alleging the company underpaid their overtime hours, a Maryland federal judge ruled Monday, saying the many remaining questions should head to a jury.
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June 09, 2025
NYC Health and Hospitals and a staffing company failed to pay the entirety of wages to employees who worked at emergency response and relief centers where asylum seekers would stay, a former operational site lead said in a suit in New York federal court.
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June 09, 2025
The Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor is reviewing Biden-era rules and hopes to balance enforcement with compliance assistance, the department's deputy solicitor said Monday.
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June 09, 2025
An entertainment company behind the AMC thriller series "Dark Winds" paid a female worker less than her male counterparts and then fired her after she complained that a male crew member had harassed her, she told a California state court.
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June 09, 2025
A North Carolina sheriff's office agreed to pay $625,000 to a class of detention center employees to end their suit 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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June 06, 2025
A Michigan federal jury on Friday ruled that a migrant farmworker contractor engaged in forced labor, finding in favor of five farmworkers who said they were coerced into working long hours without pay.
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June 06, 2025
Pay transparency laws are making an impact on pay disparities but policymakers should be careful to not make compliance too burdensome, says employment attorney Kelly Cardin. Here, Law360 speaks with Cardin about how pay transparency will continue to evolve.
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June 06, 2025
The Ninth Circuit declined to upend an order applying the federal rate instead of a higher Washington state rate when calculating prejudgment interest that a federal jury awarded to a worker in his lawsuit accusing a manufacturer of firing him for taking leave, saying his federal claim guided his litigation strategy.
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June 06, 2025
Counsel representing two female teachers should receive nearly $218,000 in costs following a jury trial in which the workers were awarded $165,000 over claims that a Pennsylvania school district paid them less than men, the teachers told a federal court.
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June 06, 2025
A Michigan federal judge on Friday granted initial approval of a $205,000 settlement to end a collective action alleging the owner of a chain of Michigan dispensaries withheld portions of tips meant to go to retail workers.
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June 06, 2025
Truck drivers said a California federal court focused on the wrong shipper when it ruled that they were overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act, urging the Ninth Circuit to flip the decision granting a win to a food distributor.
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June 06, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit regarding the extent to which federal labor law preempts employment law claims, in a case involving UPS. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.