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February 05, 2026
A California-based harvesting company and related entities will pay over $6.1 million for failing to tell farmworkers about their paid sick leave options and stiffing them on their full wages, the California Labor Commissioner's Office has said.
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February 05, 2026
An energy infrastructure company and a construction company underpaid workers by treating part of their compensation as per diem payments excluded from overtime calculations, a worker said in a proposed collective action filed in Virginia federal court.
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February 05, 2026
Amazon security screenings count as "hours worked" under Connecticut state employment law, and no legal exception permits the retailer to withhold pay for time spent on minimal matters at the end of a worker's shift, the state supreme court ruled unanimously on Thursday.
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February 04, 2026
A Kentucky coal miner accused a Colorado energy company in a proposed collective action Wednesday of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act by forcing employees to work more than an hour of overtime every workday without pay.
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February 04, 2026
The California Supreme Court's holding that courts should scrutinize difficult-to-read arbitration agreements but that "illegibility" does not render their substance so unfair as to make them unjust should remind employers to be careful with such pacts in wage and hour disputes, attorneys said.
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February 04, 2026
A Louisiana federal judge authorized notice to be sent to H-2A sugar cane workers who may be owed unpaid overtime on Tuesday, allowing them to opt in to a proposed Fair Labor Standards Act collective action against two companies.
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February 04, 2026
An Illinois federal judge preliminarily approved a $975,000 settlement to resolve a proposed class and collective action alleging a pet product manufacturer failed to pay its employees for the time they spent putting on and removing personal protective equipment, according to a court filing.
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February 04, 2026
The California Civil Rights Department has opened its portal for employers with 100 or more employees to report pay data from 2025, the agency announced.
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February 04, 2026
Uber misclassifies drivers in New York as independent contractors, leading to unpaid wages and a lack of reimbursement for car-related expenses, two workers claim in a proposed class action filed in federal court.
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February 04, 2026
A steakhouse chain violated tip credit rules by including morning-shift employees in its tip pool even though they worked primarily while the restaurant was closed to guests, a Colorado federal judge has ruled, finding those workers were not "customarily and regularly tipped" because their customer interaction was minimal.
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February 04, 2026
A California appeals court will not publish its decision that last-mile deliveries Amazon workers performed represented interstate commerce exempt from federal arbitration, turning down requests to publish the opinion.
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February 03, 2026
A company that transports radioactive medical materials misclassified drivers as independent contractors, leading to minimum wage and overtime violations, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in Florida federal court.
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February 03, 2026
Saratoga County was aware that its rounding policies led to unpaid wages, a New York federal judge has ruled, granting summary judgment on the issue of liability to a group of more than 100 current and former employees at the county sheriff's office.
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February 03, 2026
A Jim Henson Co. former employee filed a $7.5 million suit in California state court alleging the entertainment giant wrongfully diminished his executive producer credit and deprived him of an Oscar at the Academy Awards in connection with Guillermo Del Toro's "Pinocchio," despite his significant contributions to the film's "undeniable success."
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February 03, 2026
A live music venue in Denver failed to pay workers for all hours worked, misclassified them as independent contractors and retaliated against a worker for complaining about unpaid wages, according to a potential class and collective action complaint filed in Colorado federal court.
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February 03, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has approved a $3.3 million settlement resolving a lawsuit by current and former supermarket meat, bakery and deli managers who alleged Kroger subsidiary Mariano's falsely claimed they were exempt from overtime pay.
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February 03, 2026
Instacart won't be able to block New York City's laws for app-based delivery workers instituting a new minimum wage, tipping options and disclosure requirements while it challenges a federal court's order, a New York federal judge ruled.
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February 03, 2026
A sustainable energy financing company unlawfully deducted overtime from loan officers' commissions, stiffing them on their full pay, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in California federal court.
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February 02, 2026
The owner of Seattle-area Paradise Espresso stands slammed the Washington State Office of the Attorney General on Monday for filing a wage theft and employment discrimination lawsuit "containing known falsehoods" and disparaging his bikini barista business in a related press release.
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February 02, 2026
School custodians urged the New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday to reinstate an award of extra money for their in-person work during the pandemic, arguing an arbitrator had a reasonably plausible interpretation of a state statute when he determined it didn't preempt the custodians' collective bargaining agreement.
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February 02, 2026
Construction industry unions have accused the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority of refusing to comply with a resolution requiring project labor agreements on construction projects worth $35 million or more, according to a complaint filed in Virginia federal court.
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February 02, 2026
Seattle-area hospital system Swedish Health Services and the workers who were seeking about $126 million from it told a Washington state court that they agreed to settle a suit claiming meal break violations and rounding practices that led to unpaid wages.
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February 02, 2026
University of Colorado Health routinely shortchanged its hourly employees of wages under the healthcare system's rounding policy, a former UC Health worker alleged in a proposed collective and class action in Colorado federal court.
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February 02, 2026
A former nurse for the Indian Health Service adequately supported her claims that she's owed wages for work she performed during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Circuit ruled, tossing the Court of Federal Claims' dismissal of her suit against the government.
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February 02, 2026
The Home Depot agreed to pay $1.2 million to end a lawsuit alleging it required workers to submit to unpaid COVID-19 and security screenings, according to a Pennsylvania federal judge's preliminary approval order filed Monday.