An Illinois federal judge considering whether to declassify collectives of grocery store managers claiming a Kroger subsidiary misclassified them as being exempt from overtime pay compared them Monday to baseball player-managers like Pete Rose and pressed the parties to address "when a player-manager is more like a player than a manager."
Some Biden-era wage and hour rules that remain on the books face uncertain futures six months into 2025 in President Donald Trump's new term. Here, Law360 looks at where those rules stand.
U.S. Department of Labor nominees cleared a U.S. Senate committee Thursday and are set to head to a vote in the full chamber, moving the agency closer to having a complete leadership team that is likely to proceed with policy changes.
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An Illinois federal judge considering whether to declassify collectives of grocery store managers claiming a Kroger subsidiary misclassified them as being exempt from overtime pay compared them Monday to baseball player-managers like Pete Rose and pressed the parties to address "when a player-manager is more like a player than a manager."
Some Biden-era wage and hour rules that remain on the books face uncertain futures six months into 2025 in President Donald Trump's new term. Here, Law360 looks at where those rules stand.
U.S. Department of Labor nominees cleared a U.S. Senate committee Thursday and are set to head to a vote in the full chamber, moving the agency closer to having a complete leadership team that is likely to proceed with policy changes.
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July 01, 2025
The Boston Globe and a former high-ranking executive have reported settling a lawsuit over his 2021 firing, days before a trial in Massachusetts state court was set to begin.
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June 30, 2025
The Trump administration is planning to roll back a Biden-era rule that protected seasonal farmworkers on H-2A visas from facing retaliation for workplace organizing, with the U.S. Department of Labor announcing its intent to rescind the contentious 2024 rule Monday.
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June 30, 2025
A Georgia federal judge on Monday shot down a former Geico call center worker's bid to certify a class of more than 1,000 sales representatives who said the insurance company hasn't paid them for pre- and post-shift work, finding their theory of the case was "not supported by the evidence."
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June 30, 2025
A former Giphy engineer must arbitrate her lawsuit accusing Meta, and later Shutterstock, of paying her $2 million less than male colleagues when they took over the online GIF database, a New York federal judge ruled Monday.
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June 30, 2025
Consulting firm Profit Drivers LLC, its sole member and its chief executive officer have asked a Connecticut federal judge to dismiss a suit brought by their onetime vice president and chief financial officer claiming he was never paid for his work, arguing they have no ties to the Constitution State.
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June 30, 2025
A healthcare company can't move forward with its $120,000 settlement that resolves a collective action accusing it of failing to pay workers overtime wages for off-the-clock work they performed, a Connecticut federal judge ruled, saying the deal forces several workers to release too broad a spectrum of claims.
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June 30, 2025
From a look at state-level debates happening in New Jersey and California to analyses on the latest minimum wage and U.S. Department of Labor developments, catch up on Law360 Employment Authority's wage and hour coverage from June. Here's a look at features and analyses you might have missed from the past month.
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June 30, 2025
Perdue Foods LLC cannot shave off seven opt-in plaintiffs in a collective action accusing it of misclassifying poultry growers as independent contractors, a Maryland federal judge ruled, saying it's too early to determine whether the workers brought their claims too late.
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June 27, 2025
A former Google employee said she was discriminated against and fired for taking approved medical leave, according to a lawsuit filed in Washington state court.
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June 27, 2025
The University of Tennessee Medical Center reached a deal Friday with a collective of flight nurses and paramedics who accused the medical center of failing to pay them overtime wages and deducting time for meal breaks they didn't get to take, according to a filing in Tennessee federal court.
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June 27, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor said Friday it would no longer seek liquidated damages in wage and hour investigations, marking a shift away from its approach under the Biden administration.
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June 27, 2025
A federal contractor cannot escape a lawsuit accusing it of failing to include cash in lieu of benefits payments in overtime pay calculations, a California federal judge ruled, saying the firm failed to show that the fringe benefits payments should be exempt from the regular rate of pay.
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June 27, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for arguments in a staffing company's renewed attempt to toss a disability discrimination case. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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June 27, 2025
A heating, ventilation and air conditioning company will pay $225,000 to resolve workers' allegations that it failed to pay prevailing wages on public works projects in New York City and New York state, a filing in federal court said.
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June 26, 2025
Washington state public employees are entitled to paid military leave even if they are not scheduled to work because they are on active duty during an extended military leave of absence, the state's Supreme Court ruled Thursday, saying the state's paid military leave statute is unambiguous.
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June 26, 2025
Hilbert College can escape a former associate professor's gender discrimination and retaliation claims but must face her claims that she was paid less than male colleagues, a New York federal judge ruled, saying a jury should evaluate the school's explanation that other factors could account for the pay disparities.
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June 26, 2025
A Truist manager subjected a 57-year-old banker to unfair criticism and abruptly fired her, the former employee said in a wage and discrimination suit in Georgia federal court, adding that her direct manager resigned in part to protest her termination.
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June 26, 2025
A $180,000 settlement resolving a race bias suit should be enforced, a fire chief told a North Carolina federal court, saying he canceled his jury trial against the city of Charlotte because the parties reached a deal, despite the city's argument that no final written agreement exists.
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June 26, 2025
Seyfarth Shaw LLP is growing its labor and employment team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a Lagasse Branch Bell + Kinkead LPP employment litigator as a partner in its Century City office in Los Angeles.
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June 25, 2025
A New York federal judge Wednesday issued a nationwide preliminary injunction prohibiting the U.S. Department of Labor from "suspending" most of the Job Corps program, ruling that Congress created the program and funded it, and the "DOL is not free to do as it pleases."
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June 25, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor defended its 2022 H-2A prevailing wage regulations against claims from a farmworker union in Washington federal court, arguing the agency's rules are lawful and must be upheld.
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June 25, 2025
An employee-side law firm repeatedly stood in the way of a Latino attorney's career advancement, underpaid him, and fired him after he advocated for increasing a Black attorney's pay to match that of a white colleague, a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Maryland federal court said.
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June 25, 2025
A Colorado federal court should throw out an outdoor group's challenge to a Biden-era mandate requiring federal contractors to pay a $15 minimum wage, the U.S. Department of Labor argued, saying President Donald Trump has rescinded the rule that the lawsuit challenges.
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June 25, 2025
Sysco will pay a little over $20,000 to resolve a former employee's lawsuit accusing the food product distributor of failing to pay him for off-the-clock work and miscalculating his overtime wages, according to a filing Wednesday in Georgia federal court.
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June 25, 2025
A Connecticut state court judge has given her preliminary approval to a $425,000 settlement between Sugar Factory American Brasserie, a restaurant at the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation's Foxwoods Resort Casino, and a class of 55 servers who claim their pay was shorted for several years.