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March 27, 2026
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP said Friday it has bolstered its labor and employment practice with the addition of a former Baker McKenzie attorney in Miami.
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March 27, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule that could drive roughly $6.5 billion in additional annual wages to foreign workers by overhauling how prevailing pay is calculated across high-skilled visa programs.
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March 26, 2026
A sushi chef suing a Connecticut restaurant on claims of wage-and-hour violations wants the defendant sanctioned for allowing a nonparty, who is the defendant in a separate but similar lawsuit, to attend a Jan. 19 deposition, allegedly in an attempt to gain a litigation advantage.
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March 26, 2026
Employees alleging a property management company stiffed them on overtime wages cannot proceed as a collective for now, a North Carolina federal judge has ruled, finding that the current record is insufficient to determine whether they are similarly situated.
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March 26, 2026
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson vetoed a City Council measure that sought to freeze the scheduled increases tipped workers are set to receive to be phased out of the subminimum wage, saying it was his "duty to veto" an ordinance that would have financially harmed tipped workers.
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March 26, 2026
The filing of Fair Labor Standards Act suits edged upward in 2025, with New York serving as a hotbed for such cases, and the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division recovered more back wages than it has in any year since 2019, a Seyfarth Shaw LLP report showed.
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March 26, 2026
A former research coordinator cannot snag conditional collective certification in his suit seeking unpaid overtime against a Bronx medical college and several related entities, a New York federal judge ruled Thursday, saying he failed to show that study and research coordinators were similarly situated.
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March 26, 2026
Choice Hotels and a hotel operator have urged a federal judge in Washington state to toss a collective and class action alleging workers were denied breaks and sick leave, arguing the complaint failed to show the hospitality giant was actually the workers' employer and improperly included claims beyond the court's jurisdiction.
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March 26, 2026
Haitian nationals accusing meatpacking giant JBS USA Food Co. and a subsidiary of race-based discrimination and numerous labor violations have told a Colorado federal court their lawsuit should survive JBS' dismissal bid, arguing that they've sufficiently established an employer relationship with both.
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March 26, 2026
A Texas federal judge entered a roughly $21.2 million judgment against a steakhouse chain and its owner in a lawsuit brought by hundreds of workers alleging unpaid wages and misappropriated tips, according to a court filing.
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March 25, 2026
Aviation services provider Swissport USA Inc. violated Washington wage laws by depriving its employees of their overtime pay and requiring them to remain on duty throughout meal and rest breaks, according to a proposed class action filed in state court.
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March 25, 2026
TD Bank failed to pay employees for overtime work they did before and after their shifts, a former customer service call representative alleges in a proposed collective and class action filed in New Jersey federal court.
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March 25, 2026
A coalition of construction and business groups are challenging a Minnesota law that tightens independent contractor classification rules in the construction industry, arguing in state court that the provision is unconstitutional and should be blocked.
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March 25, 2026
Virginia lawmakers have teed up a bevy of worker-friendly bills for Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger to act on, including two sweeping paid leave initiatives, legislation raising the minimum wage and a measure that would ban salary history inquiries. Here, Law360 looks at seven bills in that state that employment lawyers should have on their radar.
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March 25, 2026
A Long Island restaurant failed to pay workers overtime rates and imposed an English-only rule for Spanish-speaking employees, according to a collective action filed Wednesday in a New York federal court.
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March 25, 2026
A Tennessee federal judge has agreed to transfer to North Carolina a year-old class action in which foreign workers say a healthcare system and recruiter trapped them in punitive contracts and buried them in grueling labor, after a judge said the action could have been filed in the Tar Heel State in the first place.
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March 25, 2026
A driver who worked for FedEx through an intermediary entity and who is claiming the freight company owes him overtime said to a Massachusetts federal court that there is no need to hold a status conference and told it how to handle his and more than 190 similar cases.
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March 25, 2026
Three brokers are accusing CBRE of diverting $4 million in commissions from a Washington, D.C., office tenancy deal with a legal industry client to others who didn't substantively work on the transaction, according to a D.C. federal suit.
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March 25, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to push back Wednesday on an argument by counsel for delivery drivers that their approach to an interstate transportation worker exemption to federal arbitration requirements would not go beyond the drivers.
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March 25, 2026
The Pittsburgh Steelers urged a Pennsylvania federal court to dismiss a former corporate sales manager's claim for unpaid bonus compensation, arguing she has not identified any contract entitling her to additional wages under state law.
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March 25, 2026
The U.S. Department of Defense narrowed but failed to escape a lawsuit alleging it unlawfully refused to bump a female civilian employee to a higher pay grade, with a D.C. federal judge ruling the worker provided "just enough information" to suggest she was paid less because of her gender.
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March 25, 2026
A Dunkin' Donuts and Taco Bell franchisee and a fashion retailer will shell out about $1.8 million for Fair Workweek Law-related violations to about 820 workers, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced.
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March 24, 2026
Chicago-area budtenders are asking a federal judge to approve a $250,000 deal that would end a proposed class action accusing their employer of unlawfully taking tips meant for them and giving the money to managers and supervisors.
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March 24, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will once again weigh in on an exemption to federal arbitration requirements for interstate transportation workers, paving the way for a ruling attorneys say could settle questions left over from previous wage and hour high court cases.
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March 24, 2026
A production company failed to pay cast and crew on time because of a "convoluted" payroll system and denied legally mandated meal and rest breaks on film projects, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in California federal court.