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March 24, 2026
A packaging company will pay $157,000 to end a lawsuit alleging it improperly calculated overtime and shaved workers' hours, an Ohio federal judge said Tuesday.
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March 24, 2026
An oil company agreed to pay $9 million to settle 750 workers' claims alleging they were not compensated for their 12-hour standby shifts, the employees told a California federal court, seeking the final approval for the deal.
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March 24, 2026
Boston-based healthcare system Mass General Brigham shaved as much as 14 minutes a day from employees' pay by rounding their clock-in and clock-out times, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in federal court.
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March 23, 2026
A Texas trucking company denied H-2A workers overtime pay and misrepresented the nature of their work to qualify for the federal visa program, according to a proposed collective action filed Monday in federal court.
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March 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to again weigh what makes workers engaged in interstate transportation and therefore exempt from federal arbitration requirements, with two attorneys returning to the high court after they previously argued a separate case involving the issue. Here, Law360 takes a look at the two.
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March 23, 2026
A concrete-maker supported its arguments that drivers who claimed they were misclassified as overtime-exempt fell under a Fair Labor Standards Act exemption, a Texas federal judge said, adopting a magistrate judge's findings.
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March 23, 2026
An organization representing the largest U.S. airlines supported its claims that Chicago's new paid sick leave law could affect air carriers' business, an Illinois federal judge said, keeping alive the group's challenge to the law.
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March 23, 2026
North Carolina's highest court has upheld a six-figure unjust enrichment verdict favoring the founder of the organic supermarket chain Earth Fare in a split decision that set off a debate among the justices about what is required to prove a state Wage and Hour Act claim.
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March 23, 2026
Reed Smith LLP is urging a New Jersey state trial court to allow it to resume its deposition of a former attorney suing it for gender discrimination years after the last deposition date in the wake of an appeals court decision widely expanding the scope of discovery.
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March 23, 2026
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Monday that it has brought on a former Munger Tolles & Olson LLP partner in Los Angeles to bolster its capacity to handle labor and employment matters.
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March 23, 2026
An airport services company failed to pay employees at Denver International Airport for off-the-clock tasks, including time spent undergoing mandatory security screenings, according to a proposed class action filed in state court.
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March 23, 2026
A Perdue Foods chicken farmer who claimed he was misclassified as an independent contractor filed his federal wage claims too late, a Georgia federal judge ruled, while allowing portions of his state law claims to proceed.
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March 23, 2026
Fiat Chrysler has agreed to pay approximately $3.8 million to about 68,000 workers to settle a suit in Michigan federal court accusing it of not including shift differentials and nondiscretionary bonuses in production employees' pay.
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March 20, 2026
CGL Irwin Properties LLC must face a lawsuit brought by former detainees of a Georgia immigration detention center who alleged they were forced to work for the private prison company for as little as $1 a day, a federal judge said Friday.
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March 20, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its March oral arguments session by reviewing disputes over the validity of state laws allowing late-arriving mail-in ballots to be counted in federal elections and whether "last-mile" delivery drivers qualify for the transportation worker exemption to the Federal Arbitration Act.
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March 20, 2026
The Fourth Circuit refused on Friday to revive a suit from a former AstraZeneca manager who said she was terminated for complaining that male colleagues were paid more, saying that her retaliation claims hinged on "speculation" and that the men she compared salaries with worked for a different division of the company.
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March 20, 2026
Workers are likely to continue the trend of bringing lawsuits seeking pre- and post-shift compensation under state wage and hour statutes now that Illinois' high court has ruled that its law doesn't incorporate federal exemptions freeing employers from paying for such work, attorneys said.
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March 20, 2026
A New York federal judge will consider on Tuesday whether to grant final approval to a $300,000 settlement in a class and collective action accusing a healthcare company of violating federal and state wage and hour laws. Here, Law360 looks at this and other matters coming up on the docket in New York.
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March 20, 2026
A battery company has been slapped with a proposed class action by three supervisors at a Georgia manufacturing facility who claim they were retaliated against for opposing discriminatory pay practices that benefit Korean managers over American ones.
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March 20, 2026
A medical software company won't have to face a fired salesperson's disability and age bias claims in court, after the Ninth Circuit ruled that a severability clause in an arbitration agreement didn't nullify language saying questions about the pact's validity should be decided by an arbitrator.
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March 20, 2026
The White House directed Congress to preempt "burdensome" state laws on artificial intelligence in a legislative framework released Friday.
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March 20, 2026
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., reintroduced a bill that would allow incarcerated workers to receive the minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a push that the senator said would end "exploitative practices in correctional facilities."
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March 20, 2026
In the next week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit en banc oral arguments in a jurisdictional dispute involving two unions, the National Labor Relations Board and the precedent known as Kinder Morgan. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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March 20, 2026
An Arizona trucking company shorted drivers on overtime pay by deducting time from the hours they spent conducting vehicle inspections and repairs before and after their trips, according to a proposed collective action filed in Arizona federal court.
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March 20, 2026
The nation's highest court's rejection of a doctrine calling for judges to defer to federal agencies will likely mute any impact that a proposed U.S. Department of Labor independent contractor has on app-based companies like Uber, according to wage and hour attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan of Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC. Here, Liss-Riordan speaks with Law360 about how the proposed rule will affect app-based companies.