Missouri's repeal of a paid sick leave requirement and parts of a minimum wage increase that stemmed from a ballot measure demonstrate the constraints of such initiatives.
Managers at the fast-food chain Bojangles asked a North Carolina federal judge Wednesday to certify more than a dozen subclasses in their wage and hour case, arguing that there's still a path forward after the Fourth Circuit sent them back to the drawing board on certification.
With an ongoing legal challenge and pushback from businesses, New Jersey's landmark temp worker bill of rights, which requires equal pay for equal work, shows the difficulty of modernizing wage and hour law, attorneys say.
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Missouri's repeal of a paid sick leave requirement and parts of a minimum wage increase that stemmed from a ballot measure demonstrate the constraints of such initiatives.
Managers at the fast-food chain Bojangles asked a North Carolina federal judge Wednesday to certify more than a dozen subclasses in their wage and hour case, arguing that there's still a path forward after the Fourth Circuit sent them back to the drawing board on certification.
With an ongoing legal challenge and pushback from businesses, New Jersey's landmark temp worker bill of rights, which requires equal pay for equal work, shows the difficulty of modernizing wage and hour law, attorneys say.
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July 18, 2025
A group of nurses asked a Colorado federal court Thursday to certify the proposed class in their suit alleging a healthcare company didn't properly pay holiday overtime wages.
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July 18, 2025
A former machine operator accusing a beet sugar processing company of skimping on his overtime wages and work-related reimbursement costs told a California federal court that the company should have to face his lawsuit.
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July 18, 2025
The first half of 2025 saw a shifting labor and employment law landscape that set the stage for a potentially transformative second half of the year. Will a restored quorum jump-start the EEOC? Could the Fair Labor Standards Act be updated to better address remote work? What's next for National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox's challenge to her unprecedented removal?
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July 18, 2025
A split Fourth Circuit panel will not scrap a $9 million judgment against a medical staffing company that the U.S. Department of Labor won in a suit alleging the company misclassified more than 1,000 nurses.
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July 18, 2025
A Dunkin' franchise supervisor fired a Connecticut worker who asked when tips were distributed after accusing the employee of raising questions based on inaccurate artificial intelligence search results that did not take company policy into account, the worker alleged in a lawsuit.
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July 18, 2025
A partner with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP told a Nevada federal court he should not be sanctioned for using a poor choice of words when communicating with the government about the availability of an expert witness during a wage-fixing and wire fraud trial.
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July 18, 2025
In the coming week, a New York federal judge will hear arguments over how a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting the use of universal injunctions might impact an order blocking the U.S. Department of Labor from suspending the Job Corps program.
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July 18, 2025
A private equity firm has agreed to settle and close a former executive's suit alleging she was passed over for promotions and paid less than younger men out of bias, and eventually fired for complaining about it, according to a filing Friday in Connecticut federal court.
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July 18, 2025
An Illinois federal magistrate judge agreed to send a customer service representative's proposed wage and hour class and collective action to arbitration, finding that the worker's arbitration agreement with a staffing company applied to her claims against the insurance company she's suing.
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July 18, 2025
A group of cannabis trimmers who are citizens of Colombia, Argentina and Spain have sued cultivator Honeydew Farms LLC and its owners in federal court on Thursday, alleging they were not paid the wages promised because the owners believe the foreign-born workers would not be protected by state or federal law.
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July 17, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday denied FedEx's motion for sanctions seeking to dismiss one of several overtime lawsuits filed on behalf of drivers who worked for the shipping giant through intermediary employers, rejecting the company's assertion that the litigation seeks to "harass FedEx into settlement."
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July 17, 2025
A settlement resolving an overtime suit by former mortgage company workers will move forward, but without language saying the company's owners and its successor waived certain defenses against a former co-owner in his separate New Jersey state court case, a federal judge ruled.
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July 17, 2025
A Connecticut-based healthcare company and its workers can move forward with their second attempt at a wage and hour settlement agreement, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled, finding that the new terms fix concerns he raised over the release of claims when rejecting the initial deal.
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July 17, 2025
A composting company and its owner can exit an overtime suit brought by two former employees, a Colorado federal magistrate judge has ruled, finding that the ex-workers didn't bring enough evidence to back their claims.
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July 17, 2025
The California Supreme Court declined to weigh in on a case in which veterinarians claimed that the prospective waivers from state meal-break requirements that an operator of veterinary hospitals rolled out were illegal, leaving undisturbed a panel's decision in favor of the hospitals.
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July 17, 2025
A food company is flouting an arbitration award that required it to apply a new policy on paid time off, a union representing grocery and food workers said, urging a Minnesota federal court to enforce the award.
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July 16, 2025
Nearly two months after many court-appointed attorneys in Massachusetts stopped accepting new cases over what they say is poor pay, a solution still appears elusive, even as judges will soon start hearing motions to dismiss cases under an emergency order issued by a state high court justice.
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July 16, 2025
Flowers Foods pressed the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to take up a case in which the Tenth Circuit decided to keep a distributor's overtime suit out of arbitration, urging the justices to cure a deep circuit split once and for all.
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July 16, 2025
Cracker Barrel servers urged the full Ninth Circuit to reconsider a panel's decision limiting the collective in their wage suit to workers from Arizona, where the case originated, while the company separately requested a rehearing on the grounds that the first step of the collective certification process is improper.
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July 16, 2025
WK Kellogg Co. and Kellanova will pay almost $1.5 million to settle claims that workers didn't receive accurate overtime pay and weren't compensated for preshift COVID-19 temperature checks and other off-the-clock activities, according to Michigan federal court filings.
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July 16, 2025
A staffing company's retainer pay plan did not amount to paying its employees on a salary basis, a collective of workers told the Fifth Circuit, urging the appeals court to uphold a Texas federal court decision that they were not overtime-exempt.
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July 16, 2025
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP announced Tuesday the official opening of a permanent office located in Cleveland.
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July 15, 2025
X Corp. has urged a California federal judge against holding a jury trial on a former Twitter worker's claims the company and owner Elon Musk violated state and federal laws requiring advance warning of mass layoffs, arguing the statutes don't provide for more than a bench trial.
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July 15, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday adjusted the amount of back pay two female teachers should receive after a jury handed them a win on their claims that a Pennsylvania school district paid them less than men, and also signed off on liquidated damages.
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July 15, 2025
A Washington state appellate judge criticized a hospital system's attempt to undo a $230 million loss in a class wage and hour suit on Tuesday, suggesting the employer's arguments about meal break waivers and timekeeping practices are at odds with its own records.