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April 01, 2025
Amazon has asked Connecticut's highest court not to reframe certified Second Circuit questions about whether its employees must be paid while walking to mandatory anti-theft screenings at the ends of their shifts, arguing that state court rules ban them from altering the circuit's words.
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April 01, 2025
Five truck drivers will take home about $1.3 million to resolve their lawsuit accusing a now-defunct trucking company of misclassifying them as independent contractors to withhold wages and benefits from them, a filing in California federal court said.
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April 01, 2025
Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign organization attained a partial win in a suit accusing it of not paying field organizers minimum wage, a New York federal judge ruled, saying that the campaign wasn't a covered enterprise under the Fair Labor Standards Act and that certain state law claims were rootless.
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April 01, 2025
The Sixth Circuit stood by a lower court's decision to let the federal government intervene and successfully seek dismissal for a whistleblower's False Claims Act suit against a NASA contractor, applying a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court precedent to back the government's recent tear of dismissal bids in FCA cases.
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April 01, 2025
Spa workers' claims accusing a Waldorf Astoria of profiting off its failure to pay them overtime and minimum wages and retaliating against them after the suit was filed should be axed, the hotel told a Hawaii federal court, saying the workers' new complaint fails to fix an older one's deficiencies.
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April 01, 2025
A North Carolina federal judge has awarded $775,000 in attorney fees to the workers of an Apple-affiliated repair company following their six-figure win in a multistate wage class action over back wages and damages.
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April 01, 2025
The Third Circuit has already made clear which standard applies to determine whether workers are independent contractors or employees under Pennsylvania law, said the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, backing Uber's arguments to not send a misclassification case to the state justices.
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April 01, 2025
A federal judge declined to toss a group of sanitation agents' suit accusing New York City of unlawfully picking white, male garbage collectors to move into better-paying sanitation police jobs, though he shrank the time frame covered by some of the agents' claims.
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April 01, 2025
A former O'Hagan Meyer partner says the firm stiffed him out of a final $71,000 bonus upon his departure in 2022. He's seeking triple damages under Massachusetts' wage law.
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April 01, 2025
A counterclaim accusing a paralegal of bringing an unpaid overtime wages suit against an El Paso law firm in order to extort it for money should stay in play, the firm told a Texas federal court, saying its counterclaim is sufficiently linked to the former employee's litigation.
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March 31, 2025
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Jonathan Berry of Boyden Gray PLLC to be solicitor of labor, the U.S. Department of Labor's top lawyer.
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March 31, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor may not approve minimum wage job orders for migrant farmworkers in Washington state, a federal judge has ruled, saying seasonal farmworkers with H-2A visas must receive paychecks that don't depress agricultural wages in the area.
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March 31, 2025
A North Carolina chicken processor and workers claiming unpaid wages jointly requested that a federal court greenlight a deal in which the company agreed to pay $7.26 million to the workers.
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March 31, 2025
Members of the Jersey City Public Employees union are not entitled to double pay under the COVID-19 state of emergency declared by Gov. Phil Murphy on March 9, 2020, even though their contract calls for the increased compensation during such designations, a New Jersey appellate panel ruled Monday.
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March 31, 2025
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Andrew Rogers, acting general counsel for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to run the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, a role that along with the labor secretary oversees wage rulemaking and enforcement.
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March 31, 2025
Delivery truck drivers urged the Ninth Circuit to revive their wage-and-hour suit alleging J.B. Hunt used a piece-rate formula that did not separately compensate for tasks done off-the-clock, which included fueling trucks or completing paperwork, arguing Monday the company's system ultimately failed to pay drivers for all hours worked.
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March 31, 2025
Amazon workers asked Connecticut's top court to expand two questions certified from the Second Circuit over whether post-shift anti-theft screenings should have been compensated, saying the time workers spent walking to screening areas is also part of the issue.
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March 31, 2025
A North Carolina county violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by underpaying emergency medical services workers during certain pay periods, but the workers are not entitled to any extra money because they were overpaid at other times, a federal judge determined Monday.
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March 31, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday that it has appointed a former top analyst for ZipRecruiter as its chief economist.
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March 31, 2025
A New York federal judge threw out a COVID-19 safety worker's suit accusing Paramount Global of undermining and firing her because she's an older woman, saying she failed to rebut the "Dexter" producer's argument that she was fired because she was "toxic" and a poor performer.
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March 31, 2025
Johnson & Johnson agreed to settle a former senior scientist's suit claiming she was fired after she announced her pregnancy so the pharmaceutical company could avoid paying her while on maternity leave, according to a filing in New Jersey federal court.
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March 31, 2025
A California federal judge tossed a Black ex-Workday attorney's claims that he endured race and disability bias that culminated in the software vendor sending police to his house to conduct an unnecessary wellness check, but the judge allowed the attorney pursue claims that he was shorted on stock options.
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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.