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August 07, 2025
A property management firm has been sued in Georgia federal court by a former employee who alleged she was discriminated against and eventually fired after being diagnosed with ovarian fibroids requiring a hysterectomy and hernia repair.
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August 07, 2025
A healthcare consulting company agreed to pay $16 million in a lawsuit accusing it of misclassifying care coordinators as overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act, about 200 workers said in a settlement approval bid filed in New Mexico federal court Thursday.
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August 07, 2025
A new framework the Seventh Circuit laid out for certifying collective actions in wage and hour litigation has attorneys for both employers and workers at first blush feeling relieved, as the panel majority put forward a flexible approach that gives lower courts discretion.
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August 07, 2025
A Texas federal court correctly found that a Lottery.com IT executive was a highly paid exempt employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Fifth Circuit ruled, rejecting the worker's arguments that he had lost his exempt status when he stopped getting paid.
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August 07, 2025
The forfeiture of $1 million in pension and health benefits following a Massachusetts state trooper's conviction in an overtime fraud scheme is not so grossly disproportionate to the offense that it violates the state constitution's prohibition on excessive fines, Massachusetts' highest court concluded on Thursday.
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August 07, 2025
A slew of staffing companies including Instawork misclassify the workers they hire as independent contractors, a nonprofit organization that advocates for workers' rights said in a suit removed to Ohio federal court, accusing the investors backing the companies of racketeering.
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August 06, 2025
A New York City hotel must fork over $60,000 in back pay to its food and beverage attendants after its bartenders decreased the attendants' share of tips nearly 15 years ago, a federal judge ruled, confirming a series of arbitration awards over the hotel's protests.
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August 06, 2025
The largest accounting firm in Connecticut, Whittlesey PC, must face the former CEO of Sound Federal Credit Union's claim that he was fired for following the firm's advice on when to calendar gains from a $1.2 million property sale, a Connecticut trial court judge has ruled.
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August 06, 2025
American Airlines' compensation method splitting flight attendants' pay in two didn't violate New York Labor Law's wage statement and late-payment requirements, a federal judge ruled, finding that a flight attendant didn't show the pay plan caused him harm.
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August 06, 2025
The Seventh Circuit in a discrimination case against Eli Lilly & Co. laid out a new standard for certifying collective actions, joining the Fifth and Sixth circuits in departing from a two-step analysis courts had used for decades but taking a more middle-of-the-road approach.
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August 06, 2025
A class of tipped servers accusing a steakhouse at the Foxwoods Resort Casino of unpaid wages will stay in place, a Connecticut state judge ruled, saying that the employer overplayed a court's earlier decision finding that the workers didn't perform nonservice tasks.
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August 06, 2025
Attorneys for a former Los Angeles Police Department lieutenant improperly obtained and tried to use a privileged email between a city attorney and a current LAPD lieutenant in a military bias suit, the city said, urging a California federal court to disqualify them from the case.
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August 05, 2025
A Colorado federal judge on Tuesday rejected the state Department of Corrections' bid for summary judgment in a proposed collective action accusing the agency of neglecting to pay criminal investigators for hours spent on call.
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August 05, 2025
Attorneys spearheading an antitrust class action in California federal court targeting NCAA rules that allegedly suppressed wages of "volunteer coaches" are casting a wide net to publicize their case, sending notices to thousands of current and former coaches informing them they may stand to profit.
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August 05, 2025
Stone Hilton PLLC pushed Tuesday to strike certain claims from a former aide's sexual harassment lawsuit, arguing that they were made against the firm — founded by former top prosecutors in the Texas attorney general's office — as a means of "slinging mud" on behalf of Attorney General Ken Paxton's second-in-command.
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August 05, 2025
A United Airlines technician who believes the company shorted him and his co-workers on raises filed a proposed class action against the airline and the Teamsters in California federal court, accusing the airline of violating its union contract's raise policy and the Teamsters of inadequately pressing the issue.
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August 05, 2025
Employers and workers have recently reached multimillion dollar deals to resolve disputes over the minimum wage at Disneyland, alleged paycheck issues at Kroger supermarkets and meal breaks at a hospital. Here’s a quick look at five of the biggest wage and hour settlements that courts gave initial or final approval to so far this year.
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August 05, 2025
The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, misclassified behavioral health responders as overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standard Act, leading to unpaid wages, a group of 11 current and former full-time employees said in a proposed collective action in federal court.
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August 05, 2025
A former Los Angeles Police Department officer claiming he was passed over for a promotion because of his military status said he has not received the records he requested containing information about similarly situated employees.
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August 05, 2025
A fintech company formerly owned by Goldman Sachs argued that a group of customer service workers signed valid arbitration agreements, urging a Georgia federal court to send to arbitration their claims that they weren't paid for work they performed before and after their shifts.
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August 04, 2025
Restaurant operator Darden failed to pay full minimum wage to tipped workers at Longhorn Steakhouse locations in Tennessee when they performed non-tip-producing work, a worker said in a lawsuit filed in federal court Monday.
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August 04, 2025
The operator of an Atlanta nursing home failed to pay certified nursing assistants for the overtime they worked, an employee said in a proposed collective action filed in Georgia federal court.
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August 04, 2025
Chris Braham of McDermott Will & Emery LLP helped Circle K defeat a Fair Credit Reporting Act case that went to a California appellate court and helped Darden Restaurants survive an advocacy organization's discrimination suit, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 04, 2025
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP is continuing to grow on the West Coast, announcing Monday that it has added seven lawyers from K&L Gates LLP to its newly launched Seattle office and one to its Los Angeles location.
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August 04, 2025
FedEx did not have the level of involvement in two delivery drivers' jobs to be considered their joint employer, it told a Pennsylvania federal court, saying their bid to hold the company responsible for overtime they said went unpaid was "an unnecessary diversion."