Wage & Hour

  • August 28, 2025

    Trucking Cos. Fight Drivers' Collective Cert. Bid In Wage Suit

    Drivers accusing a trucking company, its owner and a related entity of misclassifying them as independent contractors should not pursue their wage claims as a collective because their claims would trigger individualized inquiries, the companies told an Oklahoma federal court Thursday.

  • August 28, 2025

    School Union Inks $110K Deal To End EEOC Race Bias Suit

    A school district labor union has agreed to pay $110,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it discriminated against a Black custodian by challenging his promotion, according to a filing Thursday in Illinois federal court.

  • August 28, 2025

    Ga. Atty Sues Former Firm For Failing To Pay Final Wages

    A Georgia attorney has filed suit against her former employer, John Foy and Associates PC, over "threatening emails" she said she received after she was fired and a final paycheck that she reportedly never got.

  • August 28, 2025

    SkyWest Flight Attendants Want To End 10-Year Wage Case

    SkyWest Airlines' flight attendants urged an Illinois federal court to dismiss the remainder of their suit accusing the airline of not paying them overtime and other wage violations, saying it would be the best way to end their almost 10-year-long case.

  • August 28, 2025

    Labor Atty Rejoins McGuireWoods After Food Company Stint

    McGuireWoods LLP announced Wednesday that it has welcomed an alumnus back to its labor and employment team following his stint as an associate general counsel for packaged meat company Smithfield Foods Inc.

  • August 28, 2025

    Delta's $12M Wage Deal Gets Initial Greenlight

    A $12 million settlement between Delta Air Lines and a class of about 5,000 workers who claimed wage and hour violations can go forward, a California federal judge ruled, finding the deal to be fair and reasonable.

  • August 27, 2025

    Target Warehouse Workers Sue Over Unpaid Walking Time

    Target didn't pay its warehouse employees for time spent walking to and from their assigned areas where they must clock in and out for shifts, amounting to between $1,000 and $2,000 per year in unpaid wages for each worker, according to a proposed class action in New York federal court.

  • August 27, 2025

    Ex-Software Co. Execs' Win Upheld In Retirement Plan Fight

    The Eleventh Circuit has ruled software company NCR Corp.'s "top hat" retirement plans didn't allow the company to issue lump-sum payments to plan participants as alternatives to promised life annuities, affirming former company executives' win in the contract breach suit alleging they were shortchanged payouts from the plans.

  • August 27, 2025

    Campbell's Seeks Toss Of Worker's Donning Time Suit

    Campbell's sought dismissal of a former employee's proposed collective action alleging the soup producer didn't compensate workers for time spent putting on personal protective equipment, telling a New Jersey federal judge the claims must first be assessed in the grievance process under a labor contract.

  • August 27, 2025

    Solar Co. Failed To Give Proper Layoff Notice, Suit Says

    Solar energy company PosiGen failed to provide proper notice before terminating hundreds of employees as part of a mass layoff affecting workers at sites in Pennsylvania, Louisiana and other states, according to a proposed class action filed in Delaware federal court.

  • August 27, 2025

    Bloomberg Campaign Seeks To Ax Wage Collective, Classes

    Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign told a New York federal court that pretrial filings by field organizers claiming unpaid overtime show that it would be impossible for a jury to reach a blanket conclusion for about 1,000 workers across a collective and several classes.

  • August 27, 2025

    A Look At 1 Year Without Biden's Tipped Credit Rule

    It's been a year since the Fifth Circuit struck down the Biden administration's tipped credit rule, and attorneys say that the tipped minimum wage landscape feels at once settled with the return to a long-standing prior rule and yet in flux with states continuing to drive the conversation.

  • August 27, 2025

    South Florida Goodwill Reaches Settlement In Wage Case

    A former Florida Goodwill employee agreed to settle her suit accusing the network of automatically deducting time for unpaid lunch breaks that workers were unable to take.

  • August 27, 2025

    Wage Suit Against AutoZone Will Stay In Wash. Federal Court

    A former AutoZone delivery driver's wage and hour suit won't go back to a Washington state court because the company supported its calculations for how much the suit could involve, a federal judge said, adding that its removal was not late.

  • August 26, 2025

    Uber Eats To Pay Couriers $15M To End Seattle's Wage Claims

    Uber Eats has inked a $15 million settlement to end allegations that it flouted the city of Seattle's worker protection laws by failing to pay drivers what they were promised, including bonus earnings and minimum payments for canceled fares. 

  • August 26, 2025

    7th Circ. Won't Compel Arbitration In Uber Driver's Pay Suit

    Uber was correctly ordered to litigate a driver's pay claims in a lawsuit which three other plaintiffs must arbitrate, the Seventh Circuit said Tuesday, agreeing with a lower court that found the issue had already been decided in the driver's state court case.

  • August 26, 2025

    Meta Fired Worker For Being Older White Male, Bias Suit Says

    A former Meta Platforms Inc. employee filed an age bias suit in California state court Tuesday, alleging the company prioritized non-white, non-male workers and applicants for job opportunities, bonuses and promotions, before it eventually executed a "reduction in force" that disparately affected older workers who ended up being terminated.

  • August 26, 2025

    Calif. Justices Raise Bar For Good Faith Wage Case Defense

    California employers now face a higher burden to make a good faith defense to liquidated damages in minimum wage suits in the wake of a recent California Supreme Court ruling, attorneys said, though disagreement remains about the extent of the opinion.

  • August 26, 2025

    Ex-Case Manager Says Maryland Law Firm Failed To Pay OT

    A former case manager told a Virginia federal court Tuesday that a law firm failed to pay her for the overtime she regularly worked, especially after the firm's manager was accused of mishandling clients' files.

  • August 26, 2025

    X Corp. Settles WARN Act Suit With Worker Terminated In 2022

    A former X Corp. employee has settled its lawsuit alleging that he wasn't given a heads-up before the company conducted mass layoffs in 2022 following Elon Musk's takeover, prompting a California federal judge to conditionally dismiss the case on Monday, two weeks before trial had been set to begin.

  • August 26, 2025

    BofA, Merrill Want Deferred Compensation Fight Moved To NC

    Two former Merrill Lynch financial advisers who claim they were deprived of their deferred compensation must litigate their case in North Carolina, the wealth management company told a New Jersey federal judge, citing a forum selection clause in their compensation agreements.

  • August 26, 2025

    Credit Union Wants Ex-CEO's Latest Wage Claims Trimmed

    Sound Federal Credit Union wants a Connecticut Superior Court judge to trim its former CEO's recently revamped employment lawsuit, saying defamation and failure to pay wages claims should be removed from his complaint before his breach of contract claim advances.

  • August 26, 2025

    Netflix Flight Attendant Says Harassment Report Led To Firing

    A former flight attendant for Netflix's private air fleet accused the streaming company of withholding her raise and eventually firing her after she reported several instances of sexual harassment, including one involving a pilot's sexually explicit Christmas cards.

  • August 26, 2025

    Wells Fargo, Worker Settle Overtime, FMLA Suit

    A former Wells Fargo employee reached a settlement with the bank to end his suit claiming he was not compensated for off-the-clock work and that he was retaliated against after taking leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, according to filings in Georgia federal court.

  • August 26, 2025

    Crocs Miscalculated Employees' Overtime, Worker Claims

    Shoe company Crocs miscalculated employees' overtime by leaving shift differentials and bonuses out of employees' regular rate of pay, a former equipment operator alleged in a proposed collective action that he said could include thousands of workers.

Expert Analysis

  • 2026 World Cup: Companies Face Labor Challenges And More

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    Companies sponsoring or otherwise involved with the 2026 FIFA World Cup — hosted jointly by the U.S., Canada and Mexico — should be proactive in preparing to navigate many legal considerations in immigration, labor management and multijurisdictional workforces surrounding the event, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Avoiding Jurisdictional Risks From Execs' Remote Work

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    Following a California federal court's recent decision in Evans v. Cardlytics — where the case was remanded to state court because the company’s executives worked remotely in California — there are several steps employers can take to ensure they will not be exposed to unfavored jurisdictions, says Eric Fox at Quarles & Brady.

  • Eye On Compliance: Workplace March Madness Pools

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    With March Madness set to begin in a few weeks, employers should recognize that workplace sports betting is technically illegal, keeping federal and state gambling laws in mind when determining whether they will permit ever-popular bracket pools, says Laura Stutz at Wilson Elser.

  • Handbook Hot Topics: Workplace AI Risks

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    As generative artificial intelligence tools penetrate workplaces, employers should incorporate sound AI policies and procedures in their handbooks in order to mitigate liability risks, maintain control of the technology, and protect their brands, says Laura Corvo at White and Williams.

  • Water Cooler Talk: Investigation Lessons In 'Minority Report'

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    Tracey Diamond and Evan Gibbs at Troutman Pepper discuss how themes in Steven Spielberg's Science Fiction masterpiece "Minority Report" — including prediction, prevention and the fallibility of systems — can have real-life implications in workplace investigations.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: February Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five notable circuit court decisions on topics from property taxes to veteran's rights — and provides key takeaways for counsel on issues including class representative intervention, wage-and-hour dispute evidence and ascertainability requirements.

  • NYC Cos. Must Prepare For Increased Sick Leave Liability

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    A recent amendment to New York City's sick leave law authorizes employees for the first time to sue their employers for violations — so employers should ensure their policies and practices are compliant now to avoid the crosshairs of litigation once the law takes effect in March, says Melissa Camire at Fisher Phillips.

  • Employer Trial Tips For Fighting Worker PPE Pay Claims

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    Courts have struggled for decades to reach consensus on whether employees must be paid for time spent donning and doffing personal protective equipment, but this convoluted legal history points to practical trial strategies to help employers defeat these Fair Labor Standards Act claims, say Michael Mueller and Evangeline Paschal at Hunton.

  • Employer Lessons From NLRB Judge's Union Bias Ruling

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    A National Labor Relations Board judge’s recent decision that a Virginia drywall contractor unlawfully transferred and fired workers who made union pay complaints illustrates valuable lessons about how employers should respond to protected labor activity and federal labor investigations, says Kenneth Jenero at Holland & Knight.

  • 9 Tools To Manage PAGA Claims After Calif. High Court Ruling

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    In Estrada v. Royalty Carpet Mills, the California Supreme Court recently dealt a blow to employers by ruling that courts cannot dismiss Private Attorneys General Act claims on manageability grounds, but defendants and courts can still use arbitration agreements, due process challenges and other methods when dealing with unmanageable claims, says Ryan Krueger at Sheppard Mullin.

  • The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2023

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    Attorneys at Jenner & Block examine the most significant decisions issued by the Seventh Circuit in 2023, and explain how they may affect issues related to antitrust, constitutional law, federal jurisdiction and more.

  • Where Justices Stand On Chevron Doctrine Post-Argument

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    Following recent oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court, at least four justices appear to be in favor of overturning the long-standing Chevron deference, and three justices seem ready to uphold it, which means the ultimate decision may rest on Chief Justice John Roberts' vote, say Wayne D'Angelo and Zachary Lee at Kelley Drye.

  • Calif. High Court Ruling Outlines Limits On PAGA Actions

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    While the California Supreme Court’s ruling last week in Estrada v. Royalty Carpet Mills held that courts cannot dismiss Private Attorneys General Act claims on manageability grounds, the opinion also details how claims can be narrowed, providing a road map for defendants facing complex actions, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.