Uber and Lyft drivers who are trying to secure union rights in Massachusetts have collected more than enough signatures to put an initiative on the state's November ballot. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Gig Drivers' Union Rights Make It To Mass. Ballot

Massachusetts voters will decide in November whether to give app-based drivers the right to unionize after supporters of a proposed ballot initiative submitted a batch of signatures to the state Tuesday, the Service Employees International Union announced. 

This year has seen several wage and hour cases decided so far, including by the U.S. Supreme Court, Sixth and Ninth circuits, National Labor Relations Board and New York state court. (iStock.com)

6 Major Rulings For Wage-Hour Attorneys So Far In 2024

In the first half of 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a pair of cases addressing arbitration in wage and hour litigation, the Sixth Circuit weighed minimum wage for pizza delivery drivers and a New York decision created an appellate split on timely pay requirements. Here, Law360 recaps those rulings and four other major decisions so far this year.

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8th Circ. Curbs An Employer Defense In Disability Bias Cases

The Eighth Circuit recently made it easier for disabled workers to get bias cases to trial by reining in a legal shield employers can deploy against Americans with Disabilities Act claims, a step one disability law expert called "revolutionary."

Expert Analysis

FIFA Maternity Policy Shows Need For Federal Paid Leave

Dacey Romberg

While FIFA and other employers taking steps to provide paid parental leave should be applauded, the U.S. deserves ... (more story)

What 2 Rulings On Standing Mean For DEI Litigation

Valecia McDowell, Joshua Lanning and Elena Mitchell

Recent federal court decisions in the Fearless Fund and Hello Alice cases shed new light on the ongoing wave of ch... (more story)

Eye On Compliance: A Brief History Of Joint Employer Rules

Bruno Katz and Robert Curtis

It's important to examine the journey of the joint employer rule, because if the National Labor Relations Board's ... (more story)

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Mich. Hospital Mounts NLRB Constitutionality Claims In Court

A Michigan hospital that withdrew recognition from a union urged a federal judge to dismiss a National Labor Relations Board injunction bid against it, arguing the related agency proceeding is unconstitutional... (more story)

2nd Circ. Won't Revive Broadway Producer's Blacklisting Suit

The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to undo the tossing of an antitrust lawsuit brought by a Broadway producer who accused a stage workers union of illegally putting him on a "do not work" list, ruling that th... (more story)

Experts say the Supreme Court's Seventh Amendment holding in Jarkesy wouldn't immediately affect the NLRB because the board's standard remedies are meant to restore the status quo in labor law disputes, not impose penalties. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
High Court's SEC Decision Has Limited NLRB Impact, For Now

A U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's reliance on in-house courts spares the National Labor Relations Board's similar administrative system for now, but leaves th... (more story)

Justices Revive FERC Solar Fight, Citing Chevron Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the D.C. Circuit to rethink its approval of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decision granting market benefits for a small-scale solar energy project in Montana ... (more story)

NLRB Official Nixes IBEW Unit's Bid To Add More Workers

System administrators can't join a bargaining unit of technicians represented by an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers affiliate at a Florida aerospace facility, a National Labor Relations Board r... (more story)

'Unsecured' Ballot Box Justifies Nixing Vote, Co. Tells DC Circ.

A building management services company fought the certification of an International Union of Operating Engineers local at the D.C. Circuit on Monday, claiming a National Labor Relations Board agent left the ba... (more story)

ACLU, NLRB Prosecutors Clash Over Outspoken Atty's Firing

National Labor Relations Board prosecutors and the American Civil Liberties Union filed dueling briefs in a board challenge to an ex-policy attorney's firing, with prosecutors claiming she was fired for speaki... (more story)

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Charter Justified Firing Of Lactating Worker, 10th Circ. Says

A Tenth Circuit panel on Tuesday sided with Charter Communications over an employee who alleged she was fired for seeking reasonable accommodations to pump breast milk at work, with the panel finding Charter s... (more story)

2nd Circ. Backs County Win In Ex-Director's ADA Bias Suit

The Second Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a lawsuit that a former fiscal affairs director brought against a New York county's policymaking branch, saying he failed to show that a planned back surgery — a... (more story)

A worker for a Florida school district is claiming religious discrimination because, he says, the district rebuffed his request to avoid working on the Sabbath. (iStockPhoto/Roman Didkivskyi)
11th Circ. Revives School Worker's Religious Bias Suit

The Eleventh Circuit reinstated a suit Tuesday from a worker who claimed a Florida school board illegally denied his request to avoid working on the Sabbath, ruling that he did enough to show the board's decis... (more story)

NY County Must Face Ex-Assistant DA's Leave Bias Suit

A New York county can't dodge a former assistant district attorney's suit claiming she was unlawfully fired for requesting time off following her husband's cancer diagnosis, with a federal judge ruling more in... (more story)

7th Circ. Backs Hospital's Win In Black Physician's Bias Suit

The Seventh Circuit declined Tuesday to reinstate a Black physician's lawsuit alleging she was forced to quit because she was paid less than other doctors to do more work, saying she failed to show she was tre... (more story)

Metal Co. Can't Narrow EEOC's Race Discrimination Suit

A metal galvanization company can't cut several workers from a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it failed to address rampant racist language at its facility, a New York federal judge ... (more story)

DC Circ. Revives Asian ATF Agent's Promotion Bias Suit

The D.C. Circuit revived a special agent's suit Tuesday alleging he lost a promotion in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for complaining he was denied job opportunities for being Asian A... (more story)

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​​Walgreens Workers Nab Class Cert. In Late Pay Suit

Walgreens workers can move forward as a class in a lawsuit alleging that the pharmacy chain didn't pay their final paychecks on time, an Oregon federal judge ruled while setting up specific limits on who can join the suit.

Tax Consultant's Claim To Commissions Brought In Bad Faith

A California state appeals court found a wage and hour lawsuit against a tax credit firm was brought in bad faith because the worker lacked evidence to support her allegations, upholding a lower court's ruling... (more story)

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several business groups told a Texas court that the DOL cannot toss a Trump-era rule that determined workers' independent contractor status and replace it with a new rule. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images)
Biz Groups Say Chevron Ruling Crushes DOL Contractor Rule

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision killing the Chevron doctrine shows that the U.S. Department of Labor couldn't toss a Trump-era rule determining workers' independent contractor status and issue a new one, the... (more story)

Healthcare Staffing Co. Wants Wage Suit In Arbitration

A healthcare staffing company urged a Virginia federal judge to toss a proposed collective action accusing it of automatically deducting meal breaks from workers' time sheets and requiring them to perform off-... (more story)

5th Circ. Asks If High Court's Chevron Ruling Affects OT Rule

The Fifth Circuit asked the U.S. Department of Labor and a Dairy Queen franchisee to address how the recent U.S. Supreme Court's decision nixing the Chevron doctrine affects a challenge to the department's overtime rule.

3rd Circ. Asked To Remand OT Suit After Justices' Ruling

Three home care companies in overtime disputes with the U.S. Department of Labor urged the Third Circuit to reverse and remand a ruling that they waited too long to challenge a 2013 ruling on in-home caregiver... (more story)

Workers Accuse Kanye West Of 'Extreme' Racism On The Job

Eight young app developers have sued "Heartless" rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, his company and its former chief of staff, conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos, in California federal court, alleg... (more story)