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February 24, 2026
A New York federal judge declined to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming a school district paid a female superintendent less than her male predecessors, after highlighting evidence that the female leader's benefits package and salary trailed her male counterparts.
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February 24, 2026
A payroll and human resources company will pay $285,000 to resolve a collective action alleging it stiffed recruiters on overtime wages, according to a filing in California federal court.
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February 24, 2026
Saratoga County, New York, plans to appeal a federal judge's order granting summary judgment on liability in an unpaid wage lawsuit filed by more than 100 current and former employees of the county sheriff's office, according to a federal court filing.
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February 24, 2026
The current family leave options available to American workers might no longer be enough, and a tangible push to improve paid parental leave and to introduce federal leave benefits to level the field of paid leave is necessary, the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections said during a hearing Tuesday.
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February 24, 2026
The Fourth Circuit has affirmed a judgment in favor of a North Carolina IHOP franchisee in a former server's suit alleging sexual harassment, retaliation and minimum wage infractions, holding that her federal wage claim was time-barred and that she failed to show her firing for attendance violations was a pretext for discrimination.
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February 24, 2026
A Teamsters local violated federal and state law by failing to pay a former employee overtime or provide her with severance pay after the union closed down the office where she worked, according to a complaint filed in Oklahoma federal court.
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February 24, 2026
The City of New York urged a federal judge to reject Instacart's bid to pause litigation over city laws extending pay and workplace protections for delivery workers, arguing the company's Second Circuit appeal will not resolve the case's core issues and that further delay would harm both the city and affected workers.
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February 23, 2026
A farmworkers union has pressed a Washington federal court to reject the U.S. Department of Labor's approval of a wage survey meant to help determine foreign seasonal worker compensation, arguing it entails a "windfall" for growers at domestic farmworkers' expense.
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February 23, 2026
A San Diego County ordinance requiring private employers to pay prevailing wages to traffic control workers is not preempted by federal labor law, a California federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting a contractor's bid to invalidate the measure.
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February 23, 2026
A warehouse worker must rework his bid to certify a class against Amazon over holiday pay calculations after the Colorado Supreme Court clarified the governing overtime law, a Colorado federal judge ruled.
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February 23, 2026
Missouri-headquartered Spencer Fane LLP has hired the former leader of Quarles & Brady LLP's Washington, D.C., labor and employment group as a partner who will work on defamation cases, class action matters and more, according to an announcement on Monday.
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February 23, 2026
An auto parts distributor and affiliated entities set up a subcontracting arrangement to deny hundreds of employees overtime and minimum wages, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in New York federal court.
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February 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down two petitions Monday stemming from the same Ninth Circuit decision in a wage and hour case against restaurant chain Cracker Barrel, one dealing with how many steps should be used for approving notice in a putative collective action and the other involving whether out-of-state workers can participate.
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February 20, 2026
Employees in New York City will get an extra, unpaid 32 hours of sick and safe leave every year under an expansion of a city leave law in effect as of Feb. 22.
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February 20, 2026
Merck urged a North Carolina federal court on Friday to dismiss a former manufacturing facility employee's proposed class and collective action, arguing federal wage law bars his state overtime claim and that he failed to link his firing to sleep apnea.
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February 20, 2026
A trio of U.S. Supreme Court rulings could result in the U.S. Department of Labor's pushing wage and hour policy through litigation rather than rulemaking, attorneys said at an American Bar Association event Friday.
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February 20, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether a trial court properly approved opt-in notices for potential members of a federal wage and hour collective action who worked outside the state where the suit was brought.
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February 20, 2026
A New Jersey construction company and two of its owners systematically failed to pay overtime, regular wages and earned sick leave in violation of state labor laws, a worker has claimed in a complaint filed in state court.
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February 20, 2026
A Colorado professional biohazard remediation and technical cleaning services business violated federal and state law by failing to pay employees for overtime worked, according to a proposed class and collective action brought by the company's former employees in Colorado federal court.
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February 20, 2026
The city of Alexandria, Virginia, urged the Fourth Circuit to reject a rehearing bid from fire department battalion chiefs in an overtime dispute, arguing a unanimous panel correctly applied U.S. Supreme Court precedent in finding the chiefs exempt because they are paid on a salary basis.
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February 20, 2026
Congress authorized the U.S. Department of Labor to impose $580,000 in penalties and back wages on a New Jersey farm for alleged violations of the H-2A program, the department said last week, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case after the Third Circuit deemed the fines improper.
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February 20, 2026
A New York federal judge tossed a Black attorney's case claiming Fabiani Cohen & Hall LLP subjected her to racist harassment and fired her after she sued, backing a magistrate judge's conclusion that the alleged mistreatment wasn't severe enough and her case lacked evidence of prejudice.
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February 20, 2026
A drilling services company stiffs employees on wages by requiring off-the-clock work, rounding their hours and miscalculating overtime, a worker alleged in a proposed collective action filed in Utah federal court.
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February 19, 2026
The NCAA on Thursday announced a funding plan for its $303 million settlement resolving class action claims from more than 7,700 volunteer Division I coaches who claimed the governing body's former rules illegally suppressed coaching wages.
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February 19, 2026
A former employee of Empower Retirement LLC claimed in a proposed class and collective action Wednesday that the company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by not paying employees for required pre- and post-shift work.