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June 25, 2025
Curaleaf Inc. is urging a Maryland federal court to deny conditional class certification to a class of budtenders who allege the company illegally shares tips with store leads, arguing that they haven't shown any common policy or practice among its dispensaries that warrants class treatment.
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June 25, 2025
A contractor tapped to manage and operate a tank farm holding millions of gallons of hazardous and radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington will pay $6.5 million to settle claims it overcharged the U.S. Department of Energy for labor hours, according to federal prosecutors.
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June 25, 2025
The Federal Circuit declined Wednesday to reverse a decision finding a government contractor is not owed money for the cost of paying out overtime wages it incurred from trying to meet a U.S. Navy deadline, saying the company's failure to finish the project on time was not excusable.
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June 24, 2025
X Corp. challenged a request from former Twitter employees in Washington state to make the social media giant arbitrate claims about unpaid severance and bonuses, telling a federal judge that there is a lack of evidence showing the workers have valid arbitration agreements with the company.
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June 24, 2025
In the first half of 2025, states tackled the litigation consequences of some statutes and continued the trend of developing employment laws that go far beyond the federal floor. Here, Law360 highlights four state law developments that stirred debate.
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June 24, 2025
Former workers on Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign said in a proposed class action filed in Massachusetts state court Tuesday that the media magnate and former New York City mayor reneged on a promise to keep them on the payroll through the general election.
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June 24, 2025
Two former employees brought their lawsuit accusing a food services company of using a faulty timekeeping system that shortchanged their wages too late, a New Jersey federal judge ruled, granting the company's bid to throw out the proposed class action.
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June 24, 2025
A California state appellate court has rejected TikTok parent ByteDance Inc.'s bid to make a former employee arbitrate pay discrimination claims against it, saying that an underlying arbitration agreement was unenforceable for requiring her to arbitrate claims while preserving all the Chinese internet technology company's rights and remedies.
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June 24, 2025
The Sixth Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a suit from a highway department worker who claimed he was fired for taking medical leave, saying an Ohio township's position that a private investigator saw him doing construction work put the termination on solid ground.
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June 24, 2025
A home care company cannot get a pretrial win in workers' lawsuit accusing it of underpaying their overtime wages and issuing the extra pay late, a New York federal judge ruled, nor can the company decertify a 1,100-member class.
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June 24, 2025
A former staffer for retired Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner has followed through on his pledge to appeal his district court loss of wage theft claims against the ex-judge, filing a motion to have his appeal heard in a different circuit and a request to unseal a medical document.
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June 24, 2025
A California appeals court has upheld a $400,000 wage-and-hour settlement between a cannabis delivery driver and The Highest Craft LLC, finding that a dispatcher whose claims are also covered under the settlement failed to show the deal was unfair or insufficiently investigated.
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June 24, 2025
An animal health company's argument that paying a female veterinary pathologist less than her male counterparts was not motivated by bias because the employer matched incoming male workers' prior salaries is not an adequate defense, she told a New Jersey federal court.
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June 23, 2025
A chef who works with celebrities including the Kardashian family refused to pay overtime despite requiring employees to work 12-hour days and offered Adderall instead of breaks if workers complained they were tired, a former assistant told a California state court.
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June 23, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor has put a Biden-era regulation protecting union-related activities for agricultural workers on seasonal H-2A visas on ice while litigation over the rule continues and the agency considers new rulemaking.
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June 23, 2025
A lawsuit accusing a title insurance company of improperly classifying information technology workers as exempt from earning overtime can proceed as a collective, a Delaware federal judge ruled Monday.
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June 23, 2025
The owner of a Missouri restaurant repeatedly made lewd comments to a female manager, paid her less than a male colleague and punished her when she tried to ignore his advances, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in federal court.
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June 23, 2025
A former Chili's employee should have his wage and hour action against the chain's parent company tossed because the case wasn't listed among his assets in bankruptcy court, the company argued, saying he knew he was supposed to divulge this information and still failed to do so.
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June 23, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review a ruling that an Orthodox Jewish organization is immune from a worker's overtime claims because he falls under the First Amendment's ministerial exception.
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June 20, 2025
LeafFilter is facing a proposed class action in Colorado federal court from a former employee claiming the gutter protection manufacturer misclassified workers as independent contractors to avoid paying overtime.
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June 20, 2025
New Jersey’s new pay transparency requirements and proposed changes to an independent contractor classification test and temporary-worker protections demonstrate how the state remains a hot spot for wage and hour activity. Here, Law360 explores three developments to watch.
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June 20, 2025
In the coming week, a New York federal judge will consider a medical clinic's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former physician who claims he had his bonus withheld and was fired for complaining about conditions and practices at the clinic. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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June 20, 2025
A Honda manufacturing unit mandates that employees show up to work about 30 minutes before their shifts officially start to put on protective gear and walk to their workstations but does not pay them for these tasks, a proposed class and collective action filed in Ohio federal court said.
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June 20, 2025
Crew members working for HBO and a production company were paid several days late and were often required to work through their meal and rest breaks, a Private Attorneys General Act lawsuit filed in California state court said.
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June 20, 2025
A subsidiary of Alaska Airlines struck a deal Friday with a former training specialist to resolve her lawsuit accusing the company of shaving hours off her pay and ignoring the work she performed outside her scheduled shift, a filing in Washington federal court said.