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June 18, 2025
A waste disposal company requires employees to work seven days a week and more than 10 hours a day but does not pay them all the overtime wages they are entitled to, a proposed collective action filed in Louisiana federal court said.
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June 18, 2025
An Idaho grocery store will shell out about $250,000 in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor after investigators found it violated child labor laws by having six minors perform hazardous duties, the department said.
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June 17, 2025
A New York federal court refused Tuesday to reconsider a decision finding there are still questions over whether field organizers for Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign are individually covered under federal wage law, and denied the entity's bid for an immediate appeal in the workers' suit claiming unpaid minimum wage.
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June 17, 2025
Agri Beef, the Indiana Packers Corporation and a proposed class of workers at red meat processing plants have reached settlements totaling $2.5 million in a suit alleging a nationwide conspiracy to suppress wages.
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June 17, 2025
Employment law practitioners are confronting a wage and hour landscape in flux, with the federal independent contractor rule in limbo as states develop more worker-friendly tests and artificial intelligence becoming a regular part of work. Here, Law360 explores these and other issues employers and attorneys should keep in mind in the coming months.
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June 17, 2025
Humana Inc. and Humana Government Business Inc. were hit with a proposed class action in Georgia federal court on Tuesday over allegations they failed to pay registered nurse case managers proper overtime wages.
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June 17, 2025
The chair of the Republican-led U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Tuesday praised a U.S. Department of Labor watchdog for investigating the agency over allegations it shared confidential information with plaintiffs attorneys, which comes after the panel called for an investigation in November.
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June 17, 2025
Northwestern University cannot show that a volunteer baseball coach wasn't technically an employee eligible for wages, an Illinois federal judge ruled, saying the worker was performing the duties of three full-time jobs and the school paid him $10,000 for the 100 hours he was working each week.
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June 17, 2025
UMB Financial Corp. said an ex-executive's suit claiming she was illegally denied leave to recover from chemotherapy treatments can't stay in Colorado federal court, telling a judge her request to extend her monthslong leave was ultimately approved after the company initially raised concerns about her changing return-to-work date.
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June 17, 2025
A onetime executive assistant has expanded a federal lawsuit against her ex-employer Stone Hilton PLLC — founded by former top prosecutors in the Texas attorney general's office — to include a sexual harassment claim after the Texas Workforce Commission found there is reasonable cause.
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June 17, 2025
A respiratory therapist's proposed collective is far too expansive and "amorphous" and is based on scant evidence that HCA Healthcare Inc. illegally manipulated workers' time sheets, the company told a North Carolina federal court, urging it to deny certification.
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June 17, 2025
Nationwide Life and Annuity Insurance failed to pay remote workers for the time they spent booting up and logging into their computers before their scheduled shifts, a proposed class action in California state court claims.
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June 17, 2025
A California federal court gave the initial sign-off Monday on a nearly $1 million deal to resolve a long-running wage and hour class action against business services companies MM 879 Inc. and Barret Business Services Inc. that paid a visit to the Ninth Circuit.
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June 17, 2025
Spa workers accusing a Waldorf Astoria resort of misclassifying them as independent contractors adequately supported their claims for unpaid wages, unjust enrichment and retaliation, a Hawaii federal judge ruled, turning down the resort's bid to trim the suit.
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June 17, 2025
PepsiCo instructs hourly paid employees to only document their scheduled hours and not the time they actually spend working, causing workers to lose out on overtime wages and not receive pay for skipped meal breaks, a Private Attorneys General Act suit filed in California state court said.
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June 16, 2025
A class of tipped servers should be broken up, a steakhouse at the Foxwoods Resort Casino told a Connecticut state court, saying the workers cannot show that they all performed untipped side work that caused them to lose out on wages.
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June 16, 2025
A former Giphy engineer should arbitrate her lawsuit claiming Meta, and later Shutterstock, paid her less than male colleagues when they took over the online GIF database, the tech companies told a New York federal court, arguing she can't avoid an agreement she signed when Meta began its acquisition.
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June 16, 2025
A Texas federal judge has cut out several claims, including those alleging a hostile work environment, from a former Department of Justice human resources employee's lawsuit, leaving intact only claims for retaliation and disability discrimination relating to the termination of her employment.
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June 16, 2025
Elon Musk should be held personally liable for workers' unpaid severance benefits claims, the former X Corp. employees told a Delaware federal court, saying he retained so much control over the social media company that the company alone cannot be at fault.
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June 16, 2025
Delta Air Lines and a staffing firm failed to pay a worker overtime wages despite expecting her to fulfill the duties of two full-time positions and work more than 40 hours per week, she said in a complaint in Georgia federal court.
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June 13, 2025
A former CSX Transportation Inc. employee's suit claiming he was fired for taking leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act were on pause while a similar class action was being litigated, he told a Florida federal judge Friday, urging the court to reject the transport company's dismissal bid.
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June 13, 2025
The California Supreme Court could soon weigh in on the enforceability of prospective waivers from state meal-break requirements, addressing an issue that divides the state’s employment bar. Here, Law360 explores the issue.
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June 13, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a former FedEx employee's attempt to revive his lawsuit claiming he was fired in retaliation for complaining about rampant harassment that management at the company did nothing to address. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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June 13, 2025
Trade groups urged the Eighth Circuit to overturn an order declining to block a Minnesota law from taking effect that slaps steep fines on companies that misclassify construction workers as independent contractors, saying they have standing to sue because their members will be harmed by the statute.
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June 13, 2025
The Trump administration clarified that federal agencies should still use project labor agreements on large federal construction projects, weeks after a court vacated two agencies' directives that purported to eliminate this requirement.