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January 16, 2026
A former city employee of Cape May, New Jersey, claims it failed to properly pay its hourly employees for working overtime, according to a proposed collective action filed in state court.
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January 16, 2026
A group of nurses should proceed as a class in a suit accusing a healthcare company of excluding holiday premiums from their pay when they worked overtime, a Colorado magistrate judge found.
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January 16, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider TikTok's bid to overturn a federal judge's decision keeping a former executive's age and gender bias suit in court instead of sending it to arbitration.
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January 16, 2026
An aviation company failed to factor into air traffic controllers' regular rate of pay shift differentials, Sunday premium pay and other additional forms of compensation, according to a proposed collective action in Oklahoma federal court.
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January 15, 2026
Two attorneys who said they had "irreconcilable differences" with nurse practitioners who did not meet their contractual financial obligations can withdraw their representation in a minimum wage lawsuit against their employer, a North Carolina federal magistrate judge ruled.
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January 15, 2026
As Democrat Phil Murphy concludes his second term as governor, New Jersey's economy reflects a mix of lasting reforms, pandemic‑era scars and regulatory shifts that continue to shape how businesses operate and workers are protected in the Garden State.
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January 15, 2026
The Ninth Circuit ignored intergovernmental immunity when it ruled that the GEO Group needed to follow Washington's minimum wage to pay detainees in a voluntary work program, the private prison operator told the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to weigh in.
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January 15, 2026
The Fourth Circuit has dismissed a lawsuit accusing an international food distributor of unpaid overtime, almost a year to the day the U.S. Supreme Court held in the case that the Fair Labor Standards Act's exemptions do not call for heightened evidence standards, according to a court filing.
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January 15, 2026
A global renewable energy company held on to employees' bonuses and retaliated against a worker who questioned his salary and asked for disability accommodations, according to an individual and proposed class action filed in Colorado state court.
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January 15, 2026
An Illinois ambulance services company will pay $225,000 to end a suit alleging it violated wage law by only paying employees overtime when they worked more than 80 hours in a two-week period, according to a federal judge's order approving the deal.
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January 14, 2026
Office Depot LLC and a plaintiff accusing the company of violating a Washington state pay-transparency law clashed over class certification in separate motions in Seattle federal court, with the office supply giant attacking the proposed class as "unidentifiable and uncertifiable."
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January 14, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to review a standard the Seventh Circuit recently established for issuing notice in collective actions left intact a landscape in which there are now four different processes. Here, Law360 explores the various tests.
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January 14, 2026
Trader Joe's will pay $750,000 to resolve class claims from workers that it violated a Philadelphia ordinance requiring employers to give workers a fair and predictable work schedule, according to a recent filing.
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January 14, 2026
A former Walmart employee said he has properly supported his wage and hour violation claims against the retail giant, urging a Washington federal court not to dismiss his proposed class and collective action.
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January 14, 2026
Ford Motor Co. urged a Michigan federal court to toss a proposed class and collective action accusing the company of stiffing workers on their full wages at an electric vehicle battery plant in Kentucky, saying the named plaintiff failed to establish Ford was his employer.
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January 14, 2026
UberEats and DoorDash rolled out design tricks after New York City implemented a minimum pay standard for food delivery workers that has led to workers losing $550 million in tips, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection said.
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January 14, 2026
A Butterball turkey catcher cannot revive his wage and hour claims because he was a piece-rate employee, the Fourth Circuit has ruled, agreeing with a North Carolina federal court that his state and federal law claims couldn't stand.
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January 14, 2026
Baggage and cargo handlers can move forward as a collective in their suit claiming Southwest Airlines paid them twice a month instead of weekly, a New York federal magistrate judge ruled, finding that they were subject to a common policy that violated federal wage law.
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January 13, 2026
The Illinois Supreme Court should leave decades of understanding surrounding the statutory term "workweek" intact and rule that the state's minimum wage law incorporates federal limitations on compensable preliminary activities, as finding otherwise would revive a short-lived overtime regime Congress considered "disastrous," Amazon argued Tuesday.
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January 13, 2026
Two current and former United Airlines flight attendants urged a New Jersey federal court not to toss their proposed class action claiming that the airline only pays them for the time they spend flying, arguing that their claims can be resolved without interpreting the terms of the airline's collective bargaining agreement.
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January 13, 2026
Seattle-area hospital system Swedish Health Services should shell out about $126 million to settle wage violations, after a state court found that the system failed to provide a second meal break on longer shifts and that its rounding practices led to unpaid wages, the workers said.
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January 13, 2026
A federal magistrate judge recommended a win for a former cashier for an Illinois bakery that sells cannabis products, finding that the employer failed to respond to the entry of default, effectively admitting to overtime and tip violations under federal and state law.
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January 13, 2026
A North Carolina federal court correctly ruled that a North Carolina county didn't owe damages to EMS workers because their pay structure included both straight time and overtime, but erred in concluding the county violated federal wage law, the county told the Fourth Circuit.
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January 13, 2026
A legal assistant's suit accusing a New Mexico-based personal injury law firm of forcing her to resign she disclosed her pregnancy will head to trial to determine whether there were multiple contracts at stake, a federal magistrate judge said.
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January 13, 2026
A New York City sports and entertainment venue owned by Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake improperly relied on a tip credit, kept a portion of employees' gratuities and paid overtime at the wrong rate, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in New York federal court.