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September 18, 2025
A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a proposed class action for unpaid wages brought on behalf of Parts Authority warehouse employees after two staffing companies offered to pay $230,000 to end the suit.
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September 18, 2025
A former Microsoft worker can keep pursuing his federal whistleblower claim in his suit accusing the company of firing him for flagging compliance issues and misconduct, a Texas federal court ruled in its order determining the employee's alleged failure to utilize administrative proceedings does not bar him from bringing the claims.
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September 18, 2025
A proposed class of Wells Fargo employees known as "senior premier bankers" asked a California federal judge to give the first OK to a $48.5 million settlement resolving claims that the bank wrongfully exempted thousands of such workers from receiving overtime pay.
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September 18, 2025
A former assistant softball coach for the University of Arkansas has sufficiently supported her claims that she was paid less than two male coaches, a federal judge said Thursday, keeping her suit in place.
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September 18, 2025
An Apple-affiliated repair company cannot undo five classes in a wage and hour suit that snagged a nearly $840,000 win for employees, the workers told a North Carolina federal court, arguing the company's decertification request is a "Hail Mary" attempt to delay its appeal.
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September 18, 2025
A former Harvard University employee says the nation's oldest college is wrongfully withholding accrued but unused "personal time" from departing workers, in a proposed class action filed in Massachusetts state court.
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September 18, 2025
A memorandum of understanding that laid out a $1.3 million deal to resolve an overtime suit against an in-home health care provider left material questions open, the Second Circuit ruled, telling a lower court to revisit its finding that the deal was binding.
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September 17, 2025
A California state court has granted final approval of Walt Disney Co.'s $233 million settlement with more than 51,000 Disneyland workers who accused the entertainment company of flouting the city of Anaheim's minimum wage ordinance, handing the workers' lawyers $35 million in attorney fees.
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September 17, 2025
The Democratic Women's Caucus asked the U.S. Department of Labor to further probe why women are leaving the workforce in droves, after recent job data showed that over 330,000 women have left the workforce since January.
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September 17, 2025
The Fifth Circuit's opinion affirming that the U.S. Department of Labor has statutorily delegated authority to develop salary rules will remain a significant barometer for the DOL's power, attorneys told Law360, particularly as agencies flip-flop between political administrations.
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September 17, 2025
The operator of a cemetery and funeral homes compensated a former pre-planning adviser and customer service and sales representative on a commission basis, leading to about $81,000 of unpaid overtime, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in Florida federal court.
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September 17, 2025
A former United Airlines flight attendant told a New York federal court that he agreed to dismiss his lawsuit accusing the airline's compensation method of cheating him out of wages.
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September 17, 2025
Four seasonal truck drivers did not cross state lines when they transported agricultural products from fields to a cooling facility, and therefore their wage and hour suit belongs in arbitration, a California federal judge ruled.
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September 17, 2025
A California federal court approved a $49 million settlement between the National Collegiate Athletic Association and 1,000 Division I volunteer baseball coaches that resolves an antitrust dispute stemming from a now repealed bylaw that allegedly prevented the coaches from receiving market value wages.
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September 17, 2025
Consumer goods company Kimberly-Clark has resolved a suit filed by a Black manufacturing employee who said she was denied a promotion and unfairly disciplined for complaining she was being paid less than colleagues, according to a filing in Alabama federal court.
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September 17, 2025
The Fourth Circuit will not reconsider a panel decision keeping in place a $9 million judgment against a medical staffing company the U.S. Department of Labor accused of misclassifying more than 1,000 nurses as independent contractors, the appeals court said.
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September 16, 2025
A pair of nurses who worked at Harborview Health Systems' facility in Rome, Georgia, brought enough evidence to show they and other similarly situated nurses were subjected to pay practices that shorted them on overtime wages to proceed as a collective action, a New York magistrate judge said Tuesday.
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September 16, 2025
Two Connecticut delivery drivers asked the Second Circuit on Tuesday to reverse an order sending their employment misclassification lawsuit to arbitration, arguing the Federal Arbitration Act doesn't apply to workers engaged in interstate commerce and cuts through contracts that purportedly cast them as independent contractors.
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September 16, 2025
Fred Meyer broke Washington state law in barring nearly 13,000 of its low-wage workers from holding other jobs to make ends meet, according to a proposed class action removed to Seattle federal court.
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September 16, 2025
Washington Supreme Court justices on Tuesday pushed counsel for an adult family home on the stance that its "live in" workers are adequately protected by existing laws and regulations, pointing to testimony its employees are always on call and sometimes at risk of physical assault by residents.
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September 16, 2025
United Airlines paid flight attendants only for the time they spent flying, leading to millions of dollars of unpaid wages and overtime, a former flight attendant for the airline said in a proposed class action in New Jersey federal court.
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September 16, 2025
Immigrant detainees urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject GEO Group's bid for a ruling allowing government contractors to promptly challenge adverse rulings on derivative sovereign immunity, saying it would "dramatically expand" the number of nonfinal judgments that can be immediately appealed.
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September 16, 2025
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the shorter statute of limitations under the state's Wage Claim Act applies to the Colorado Minimum Wage Act, finding the acts should be construed together because they share the common purpose of recovering unpaid wages.
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September 16, 2025
A company providing staff and support to airlines at Pittsburgh International Airport must face most of a former agent's claims it retaliated against her for seeking time to pump breast milk at work, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Monday.
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September 16, 2025
The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday questioned trade groups challenging a Minnesota independent contractor misclassification law about the level of scrutiny to apply to the statute and seemed unconvinced that the law is unconstitutionally vague.