December 15, 2023
In 2023, courts around the country decided cases that reshaped precedents affecting overtime, collective actions, defeating a motion to dismiss, tracking off-the-clock labor and pandemic-era remote work. Here, Law360 reviews five wage and hour opinions that stood out.
November 22, 2023
An appellate opinion may breathe new life into a case that a lower court dismissed, or throw out a decision with instructions to conduct a fresh analysis that adopts a new legal test. Here, Law360 reviews what happened in five minimum wage and overtime cases where an appellate ruling changed the course of the litigation.
August 22, 2023
Wage and hour practitioners operate in a circuit split where different procedures governing collective actions on behalf of many workers have brought new attention to discovery and equitable tolling as potential flashpoints in litigation, attorneys told Law360.
July 24, 2023
Michigan lawyers say they have been genuinely surprised so far this year by a host of decisions in both state and federal court, as judges tossed the decades-old framework for collective class action notifications and scrapped what was a major trade secrets trial loss for Ford.
July 05, 2023
In the second half of 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor plans to roll out new Fair Labor Standards Act rules on overtime and independent contractor classification, and new laws tackling pay transparency will play out. Here, Law360 explores these and other topics that wage and hour attorneys are watching in the coming months.
June 29, 2023
In the first half of 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court found that a highly paid oil rig worker was entitled to overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act and a federal circuit court adopted a new approach to wage and hour collective actions. Here, Law360 recaps five rulings so far this year.
June 16, 2023
In the first few weeks since the Sixth Circuit shook up the process of notifying workers about wage and hour collective actions, litigants with active cases in lower courts have begun making arguments about the new precedent's impact. Here, Law360 highlights three cases teeing up rulings that may demonstrate how district courts apply the decision.
May 22, 2023
The Sixth Circuit’s decision making it the second federal appeals court to reject the common two-step approach for litigating wage and hour suits on behalf of many workers embraced a standard that won’t be as onerous as what the Fifth Circuit embraced, attorneys told Law360. Here, Law360 presents three takeaways as the Sixth Circuit transforms collective actions.
May 19, 2023
A partly split panel for the Sixth Circuit adopted a new standard for certifying Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions, becoming the second appeals court to rebuff district courts' use of the common two-step procedure for certification.
February 23, 2023
Although the Sixth Circuit hasn't yet ruled on whether to overhaul the standards for conducting wage and hour litigation with many plaintiffs, some district judges have paused suits in case of a change in circuit precedent. Here are three cases where judges have debated how to proceed.