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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Association and 1,000 Division I volunteer baseball coaches that resolves an antitrust dispute stemming from a now repealed bylaw that allegedly prevented the coaches from receiving market value wages.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.
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September 16, 2025
A California media company pressured employees to falsely record breaks and fired those who complained about wage and hour violations or sought a raise, a former production coordinator claimed in a suit filed in state court.
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September 15, 2025
A California appeals court has issued a published opinion "as a warning" to Golden State attorneys to personally review case law quotations made by generative artificial intelligence, and imposed a $10,000 monetary sanction on plaintiff's counsel in an otherwise straightforward appeal in an employment case.
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September 15, 2025
A Third Circuit panel on Monday questioned at what point a judge is permitted to declare that a case can't be resolved, as it considered a bid by Uber drivers to revive employment misclassification claims that already resulted in two deadlocked juries.
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September 15, 2025
A House panel announced plans Monday to advance several workforce and retirement-related bills later this week, including legislation that would require new reporting from the U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm on information-sharing agreements and a bill to exempt tribal governments from federal wage laws.
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September 15, 2025
Counsel for a class of servers at a steakhouse at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut made good on his promise to seek recusal or disqualification of the judge slated to oversee an upcoming trial, arguing in a motion Friday that Superior Court Judge Elizabeth J. Stewart had improperly made part of the defense's case for it.
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September 15, 2025
Tesla discriminates against American workers by giving a leg up to H-1B visa holders whom the company underpays, according to a suit brought in California federal court by two U.S. citizens who said they unsuccessfully sought jobs at the electric vehicle maker.
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September 15, 2025
A California judge granted final approval Monday of Disney's $43.25 million class action settlement with over 15,000 female midlevel managers over allegations the entertainment giant paid them less than their male colleagues.
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September 15, 2025
Cozen O'Connor is expanding its employment law resources in Philadelphia with the additions of two attorneys who have moved their practices from Jackson Lewis PC.
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September 15, 2025
A clothing brand failed to pay its employees for the off-the-clock work that they performed and imposed a policy of no overtime that led to unpaid wages, a former retention specialist claimed in a proposed class and collective action in California federal court.
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September 15, 2025
This U.S. Supreme Court season may include cases that address the contours of a Federal Arbitration Act exemption, whether requiring federal contractors to pay immigrant detainees minimum wage discriminates against the federal government and the procedural intricacies of collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Here, Law360 explores the issues at stake in these three cases that the high court will consider.
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September 15, 2025
United Airlines' pay structure flouted New Jersey wage law because it failed to pay flight attendants on time, a former employee of the airline told a federal court in a proposed class action.
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September 12, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice sought to show a Maryland federal judge a key document from its settlement talks with Wayne-Sanderson Farms, arguing it underscores that the poultry producer wanted to keep sharing wage information, only for the company to be told no.
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September 12, 2025
An association of builders on Friday urged the Eleventh Circuit to block a Biden administration executive order requiring labor agreements for all federal contracts exceeding $35 million, arguing the order will cause irreparable harm by increasing costs and reducing competition in the construction industry.