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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.
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June 20, 2025
A former Mercer University School of Law professor cannot show that the school refused to accommodate her long-COVID-19 symptoms, a Georgia federal judge ruled, saying her repeated requests to work remotely were not reasonable.
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June 20, 2025
A Massachusetts-based au pair agency cannot enforce a Swiss arbitration requirement included in a contract that childcare workers signed with a separate European company, the First Circuit has determined.
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June 18, 2025
A California federal judge doubted Wednesday whether a named plaintiff can adequately represent a proposed class of Bank of America employees who claim they weren't paid for unused vacation time when they left the bank, observing during a hearing that her individualized issues "could make her very differently situated."
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June 18, 2025
A Nevada federal court has refused a nurse staffing executive's bid to undo his conviction on wage-fixing and wire fraud charges, and threatened his attorneys with sanctions for allegedly making repeated misrepresentations to the court.
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June 18, 2025
A Senate panel announced on Wednesday a June 26 vote that will affect who will chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Trump administration's picks to lead the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division and employee benefits arm.
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June 18, 2025
Thompson Coburn LLP announced Wednesday that a five-attorney labor and employment team of three partners and two associates joined the firm's Los Angeles office from Epstein Becker Green.
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June 18, 2025
A court executive has claimed that the New Jersey judiciary is guilty of retaliating and discriminating against her by allegedly reducing her pay raise because she went on maternity leave, according to a new state complaint.
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June 18, 2025
The operator of New York City-area Applebee's restaurants entered into a National Labor Relations Board settlement after a former server claimed he was fired after complaining about Black workers getting paid less than white employees, advocacy group One Fair Wage announced Wednesday.