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  1. July 08, 2025

    Outdoor Co., DOL End Suit Challenging Contractor Wage Rule

    A Colorado federal court on Tuesday dismissed a suit from an outdoor group challenging former President Joe Biden's decision to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors, a day after the group and the U.S. Department of Labor said they agreed to drop the case.

  2. June 25, 2025

    DOL Says Trump Order Moots Contractor Wage Case

    A Colorado federal court should throw out an outdoor group's challenge to a Biden-era mandate requiring federal contractors to pay a $15 minimum wage, the U.S. Department of Labor argued, saying President Donald Trump has rescinded the rule that the lawsuit challenges.

  3. February 25, 2025

    Outdoor Co. Renews Challenge To Fed. Contractor Wage Hike

    An outdoor group renewed its bid to block former President Joe Biden's minimum wage hike for federal contractors after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a ruling rejecting the group's preliminary injunction request, telling a Colorado federal court the wage hike is illegal.

  4. February 24, 2025

    DOL Wage Rule Challenges In Limbo Pending New Leadership

    Several ongoing challenges in federal courts to U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour rules are on hold as President Donald Trump’s administration settles in, leaving the fate of regulations impacting businesses and millions of workers uncertain. Here’s a look at the cases and the rules they are challenging.

  5. May 26, 2023

    Where DOL Stands In Crafting, Defending Wage-Hour Rules

    The U.S. Department of Labor has rolled out plans for rules addressing specific topics such as overtime, minimum wage and tipped workers, as well as broader issues such as how to decide whether wage and hour protections even apply. Here, Law360 reviews the status of the Wage and Hour Division's rulemaking.

  6. January 24, 2023

    Biden Wage Rules Meet A Suspicious Judiciary

    Recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings reining in federal agencies that overstep their mandate from Congress are likely to be the anchor of legal challenges to recent Wage and Hour Division rules, former agency officials told Law360.

  7. January 19, 2023

    Contractor Wage Hike Suit Paused Pending 10th Circ. Appeal

    A Colorado federal judge administratively closed a case challenging the U.S. Department of Labor's rule requiring a minimum wage increase, declining to grant either side a win before the Tenth Circuit resolves an interlocutory appeal over whether an injunction should be applied to block the rule.

  8. August 03, 2022

    Progressive Groups Back $15 Min. Wage For Fed. Contractors

    A group of progressive policy organizations urged a Colorado federal judge to grant the U.S. Department of Labor a win in its defense of the $15 minimum wage for federal contractors, arguing that the $4.05 hike will correct wage gaps for marginalized workers.

  9. August 02, 2022

    DOL Defends Biden's Power To Hike Contractors' Min. Wage

    The U.S. Department of Labor defended its implementation of the Biden administration's rule increasing federal contractors' minimum hourly wage to $15, telling a Colorado federal judge Tuesday that the president didn't overstep his authority when he mandated the wage hike.

  10. July 01, 2022

    4 Major Wage-Hour Rulings So Far In 2022

    Wage and hour cases returned to the U.S. Supreme Court after the justices skipped them last term. Meanwhile, lower courts have thwarted President Joe Biden's actions on independent contractor classification and minimum wage. Here, Law360 recaps four major rulings in the first half of 2022.