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March 31, 2025
A Washington federal judge agreed to oust only two of the 11 workers Amazon asked to dismiss from an 8-year-old suit accusing the company of misclassifying drivers as independent contractors, saying the other nine made enough effort to comply with discovery.
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March 31, 2025
A gay police officer's suit alleging he was placed in a less desirable position after returning from parental leave should be thrown out, the Washington, D.C., police department told a federal court, saying he can't show that his new role was worse than his previous one.
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March 28, 2025
A trucking company headquartered in Nebraska can't win its bid to decertify two classes of drivers alleging they are owed unpaid minimum wages, a federal judge ruled Friday, finding an individual assessment about how workers were paid isn't necessary.
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March 28, 2025
A Connecticut federal judge pressed pause on a class action alleging FedEx Ground Package System Inc. failed to pay workers for their time spent undergoing preshift security screenings, giving the state's high court a chance to weigh in on a similar dispute.
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March 28, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider an attempt from the former city planner for Newburgh, New York, to revive her lawsuit claiming she was fired for advocating that the city adopt antiracism policies for the city's housing initiatives.
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March 28, 2025
Walgreens cannot escape breach of contract and unjust enrichment claims in an agent's suit alleging unpaid off-the-clock work, an Illinois federal judge ruled, saying that the worker claimed the company agreed to pay for that time.
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March 28, 2025
New Jersey urged a state court to dismiss a discrimination and retaliation suit from a former acting director at the state's Department of Banking and Insurance, arguing she hasn't backed her claims she was paid less than her male counterparts and lost out on a promotion due to her gender.
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March 28, 2025
A class action settlement in Pennsylvania state court over unpaid time spent shuttling to and from the construction of Shell's Beaver County petrochemical plant was distinct enough from a proposed federal class action that the contractor defendant can't dismiss the latter suit, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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March 28, 2025
A Fifth Circuit panel agreed Friday to toss its earlier decision ruling that President Joe Biden had the authority to raise the minimum hourly wage for federal contractors to $15, two weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order nixing the wage bump.
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March 28, 2025
A former employee of a John Deere retailer cannot proceed with a Georgia common law claim accusing the company of illegally profiting off its failure to pay salespeople overtime, the retailer told a federal court, saying the allegation cannot stand separately from the worker's federal wage and hour law allegation.
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March 28, 2025
Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis PC has promoted Michael L. Abitabilo from office litigation manager to office managing principal in White Plains, New York, the firm has announced.
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March 28, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a proposed class action that revolves around a transportation company's alleged piece-rate pay policy. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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March 28, 2025
Car rental company Avis can't escape managers' collective action accusing it of misclassifying them as overtime-exempt, a New Jersey federal judge ruled, finding a longer time limit for bringing the suit applied because the workers backed up their claims that the company's conduct was willful.
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March 28, 2025
An Atlanta-based personal injury law firm didn't pay a former paralegal for 658 hours of overtime, and it erroneously considered her a salaried-exempt employee, according to a lawsuit filed in Georgia federal court.
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March 27, 2025
A provider of school bus services did not pay its drivers their full overtime wages, failed to include nondiscretionary bonuses in their regular rates of pay and did not pay for the time they spent traveling to and from required meetings, a proposed collective action complaint filed in Ohio federal court has alleged.
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March 27, 2025
At a time of judicial skepticism of agency power, the Trump administration will have to balance its interest in nixing U.S. Department of Labor rules with its interest in preserving the agency's authority to make such rules, attorneys say.
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March 27, 2025
United Parcel Service and a class of employees alerted a Washington federal court that they intend to mediate the workers' lawsuit accusing the company of failing to pay drivers on short-term military leave while paying those who take time off for jury duty and other short-term absences.
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March 27, 2025
A Georgia mental health clinic was sued Wednesday by a former aide who alleged that she was forced to resign her position with the company last year when it refused to give her thousands of dollars of overtime pay she claims she was owed.
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March 27, 2025
Workers suing an engineering company that contracts with civilian and defense agencies will be able to proceed as a collective on their claims that they were cheated out of overtime, a Virginia federal judge ruled Thursday while trimming the scope of the collective.
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March 27, 2025
Raytheon Technologies Corp. has resolved a lawsuit alleging it refused to permanently hire four temporary Black accountants and replaced them with less qualified non-Black workers, according to a Thursday filing in Texas federal court.
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March 27, 2025
Elevance Health failed to pay workers their final wages on the business day following their terminations in violation of Connecticut law, and now owes them twice the amount of those wages, according to a proposed class action filed in state court.
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March 27, 2025
Discount retailer chain Ollie's Bargain Outlet Inc. and a former employee claiming he was misclassified as overtime-exempt told a New York federal court Thursday that they have settled his suit brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law.
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March 27, 2025
A private ambulance company has been hit with a proposed class action in Georgia federal court over allegations that it failed to pay workers overtime wages as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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March 26, 2025
A Colorado federal judge on Wednesday ruled that plaintiffs alleging meat producers conspired to fix industry wages can't recover under certain claims for conduct that happened before January 2020, finding an amended complaint raised a new conspiracy for which the companies weren't on notice they could be held liable.
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March 26, 2025
As the U.S. Department of Labor leadership takes shape under President Donald Trump and proceeds on wage and hour and other policy priorities, former officials say the new top brass should listen to career staffers and keep enforcement actions fair. Here is what the former officials told Law360.