Wage and hour rules issued under former President Joe Biden are already on the chopping block just more than 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term, as the U.S. Department of Labor halts enforcement of independent contractor and federal contractor minimum wage requirements. Here, Law360 explores the status of three Biden-era rules.
Southwest Airlines said Tuesday that a suit challenging its sick leave settlement with Colorado is moot because a recent collective bargaining agreement between the airline and its workers in the state already applies a 2020 law.
A coming U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case dealing with whether federal district courts can certify class actions when some members might not be injured could make it much harder for workers to proceed together with wage and hour claims, attorneys said.
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Wage and hour rules issued under former President Joe Biden are already on the chopping block just more than 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term, as the U.S. Department of Labor halts enforcement of independent contractor and federal contractor minimum wage requirements. Here, Law360 explores the status of three Biden-era rules.
Southwest Airlines said Tuesday that a suit challenging its sick leave settlement with Colorado is moot because a recent collective bargaining agreement between the airline and its workers in the state already applies a 2020 law.
A coming U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case dealing with whether federal district courts can certify class actions when some members might not be injured could make it much harder for workers to proceed together with wage and hour claims, attorneys said.
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May 08, 2025
The debate regarding whether incarcerated people who perform work are employees and thus entitled to federal wage and hour protections is set to continue to develop. Listen to Law360 Explores: Subminimum Wage Part 2.
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May 08, 2025
Despite a growing body of case law laying out a blueprint for determining whether incarcerated workers are employees — which would legally entitle them to minimum wage and other protections — there is no definitive way to classify workers behind bars.
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May 08, 2025
Brazilian steakhouse chain Fogo de Chao failed to properly pay servers and forced them to share tips with owners and managers while also discriminating against a former employee for his age, according to a proposed class and collective action filed Thursday in New York federal court.
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May 08, 2025
Sonia Kumar has spent her 17-year legal career representing people who have spent decades behind bars in Maryland prisons. As a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, Kumar has fought for racial justice and combated abuses within the prison system.
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May 08, 2025
While courts grapple with whether incarcerated workers are employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act and thus entitled to minimum wage and other protections, congressional Democrats plan to make another attempt to update the statute to answer that question.
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May 08, 2025
A Pennsylvania jury awarded a total of $165,000 in damages to two female teachers who claimed they had been unfairly paid less than their male counterparts in the Central Bucks School District Thursday.
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May 08, 2025
A loan processor manager's suit claiming a mortgage lender unlawfully considered her overtime-exempt will go to arbitration, a Georgia federal judge ruled, saying the company didn't waive its right to arbitrate and that the arbitration clause keeps her suit out of court.
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May 08, 2025
Current and prospective college athletes whose spots on their team rosters were jeopardized by the NCAA's settlement of a name, image and likeness antitrust class action will be allowed to play again, according to the latest version of the deal, which a California federal judge found last month needed a revision.
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May 08, 2025
A South Carolina law firm failed to pay an attorney her earned wages during several pay periods until she got her own lawyers involved, she told a federal court, saying the firm should be put on the hook for triple damages and attorney fees.
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May 08, 2025
A Tennessee federal jury said a personal injury firm should pay $3.27 million to a former chief people officer who claimed she was fired after raising concerns that female attorneys were being paid less than men.
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May 08, 2025
Management-side labor and employment firm FordHarrison LLP is growing its West Coast team, bringing in a litigator from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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May 07, 2025
A North Carolina appeals court largely backed a lower court's wage ruling Wednesday in a 17-year legal battle the Tar Heel State has fought with a group of state foresters about overtime pay they said they were not paid for fighting a 2008 fire.
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May 07, 2025
A New Jersey federal judge said a jury needs to probe a veterinary pathologist's claims that an animal health company unlawfully paid her less than two male co-workers, ruling there isn't enough proof to definitely say whether they performed equal work.
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May 07, 2025
CVS can arbitrate a nurse practitioner's lawsuit alleging it failed to provide employees with meal and rest periods and then abruptly laid off more than 250 workers without giving them adequate notice, a California federal judge ruled, rejecting the worker's argument that she never signed an arbitration pact.
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May 07, 2025
A former New York City telecommunications employee cannot revive her lawsuit alleging she was pushed out after managers scheduled meetings during her lunch because she reported a supervisor's inappropriate touching, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday, saying there's no evidence the managers knew her migraines necessitated a specific lunch break.
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May 07, 2025
A Los Angeles employment lawyer has sued Fisher Phillips for malicious prosecution, alleging the international labor firm targeted him with a "frivolous Rube Goldberg-esque legal argument" in an attempt to block him from representing workers at a Southern California diner chain in claims against their employer.
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May 07, 2025
Edward Jones' delay in paying the required fees to arbitrate a former employee's wage and hour claims allows the worker to take her claims back to court, a California appeals court ruled.
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May 07, 2025
A pair of New England drivers who deliver Sara Lee and other branded baked goods said Tuesday in a proposed class action that Bimbo Bakeries violates Massachusetts law by treating them as independent contractors rather than employees.
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May 06, 2025
A translation services company misclassifies workers as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime and providing them with other benefits, a worker said in a lawsuit brought under California's Private Attorneys General Act in federal court.
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May 06, 2025
A Colorado critical care hospital failed to factor bonuses into overtime calculations, resulting in a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and unpaid wages, a registration specialist said in a proposed collective action in federal court Tuesday.
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May 06, 2025
Kaufman Dolowich is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Litchfield Cavo LLP construction industry litigator as partner in its office in Torrance, California.
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May 06, 2025
University of Utah Health fails to pay customer service workers' wages for the 10 or so minutes they spend each day booting up their computers and logging into the healthcare system's programs, causing their overtime wages to drop, a former worker said in a lawsuit Tuesday.
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May 06, 2025
A New York federal court correctly concluded that there was still an open question of whether field organizers for Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign fell under federal wage law, the workers argued, saying there is no need to rethink the decision.
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May 06, 2025
Former employees' bid to certify a class of more than 200 individuals who were abruptly terminated should be rejected, an aviation company told a Florida federal court, saying none of the proposed members reported to the same site and some of the workers were rehired.
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May 05, 2025
A North Carolina federal judge tossed a challenge to a Biden-era regulation that enhanced the organizing rights of seasonal farmworkers with H-2A visas, saying Monday that the U.S. Department of Labor didn't act arbitrarily and capriciously when it issued the regulation.