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May 28, 2025
A Florida construction company will pay more than $594,000 to put an end to the U.S. Department of Labor's investigation into allegations that it failed to pay workers overtime wages, the department said.
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May 27, 2025
The Second Circuit on Tuesday declined to revive claims from former officers for a New York Girl Scouts chapter who said they suffered retaliation after complaining that the group misused pandemic relief loans, but held that one plaintiff can pursue racial bias allegations.
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May 27, 2025
A coal miner claiming unpaid wages failed to show how a mining company directly employed him, but supported his allegations that the entity could have jointly employed him with a subsidiary, a West Virginia federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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May 27, 2025
A bus attendant cannot show that a school bus services provider willfully ran afoul of the Fair Labor Standards Act by improperly calculating workers' overtime pay, the company told an Ohio federal court Tuesday, saying her allegations aren't based on any facts.
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May 27, 2025
Washington employers will get some reprieve from steep penalties for pay transparency violations, and workers in Los Angeles County will have the benefit of predictive scheduling. Here, 暗网禁区 explores a sampling of new developments employers should keep in mind in the coming weeks.
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May 27, 2025
A federal magistrate judge in Alabama said it's not totally clear that Hyundai, a manufacturing company and a staffing firm stopped employing minors after the U.S. Department of Labor sued them for hiring a 13-year-old, recommending that the companies face the agency's claims.
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May 27, 2025
A coalition of construction groups didn't show how a Minnesota state law imposing hefty fines on companies that misclassify workers as independent contractors hurts them, the state's Department of Labor said, urging the Eighth Circuit to uphold a federal court's decision keeping the law standing.
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May 27, 2025
A seasoned BigLaw attorney who left Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC five years ago to move into an in-house legal position at Vice Media has rejoined the labor and employment law firm Tuesday as a shareholder.
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May 27, 2025
A trio of former Domino's delivery drivers asked an Ohio federal judge to certify their proposed classes of current and former drivers in and outside the Buckeye State as they pursue claims that Domino's franchisee Team Pizza Inc. took them below minimum wage by shuffling vehicle costs onto workers.
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May 27, 2025
A health insurance company failed to show that utilization reviewer nurses fell under certain Fair Labor Standards Act overtime exemptions, the nurses said, arguing to a Maryland federal court that their jobs required "routine mental work."
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May 27, 2025
An inn in the Blue Ridge Mountains failed to pay innkeepers minimum and overtime wages despite requiring them to work more than 12 hours a day, according to a suit filed in North Carolina federal court.
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May 23, 2025
This past year, a handful of attorneys secured billions of dollars in settlements and judgments for both classes and individual plaintiffs against massive companies and organizations like Facebook, Dell, the National Association of Realtors, Johnson & Johnson, UFC and Credit Suisse, earning them recognition as 暗网禁区's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2025.
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May 23, 2025
A contractor that provides guards for a U.S. Department of Homeland Security facility in Washington, D.C., forces them to take meal break pay deductions despite such breaks rarely occurring, employees said in a proposed class and collective action.
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May 23, 2025
An insurance company reneged on its promise to provide its benefits adviser with paid maternity leave and then fired her not long after she raised several concerns about unpaid commissions, according to a lawsuit removed to North Carolina federal court.
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May 23, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a New York speech therapist's attempt to revive her lawsuit claiming she was discriminated against on the basis of her race when her school district fired her in 2022. Here, 暗网禁区 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 23, 2025
The state of Missouri urged a federal judge to reject Starbucks' bid to dismiss its suit claiming its diversity policies discriminate based on race and gender, arguing it has put forward enough evidence showing how the company's practices have harmed its citizens to keep the case in court.
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May 23, 2025
Elevance cannot add up all potential class members' claims to put the total cost of future damages over the required amount to keep a case in federal court, a worker said in asking that her wage and hour case be sent back to Connecticut state court.
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May 23, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Friday a new acting administrator as well as four policy advisers to serve in the agency's division tasked with ensuring employers pay their employees in line with federal minimum wage and overtime laws.
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May 23, 2025
A Choate Hall & Stewart LLP partner has joined Cooley LLP's labor and employment practice and global litigation department in Boston.
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May 23, 2025
An Illinois law mandating benefits for long-term temporary workers will stay in place as amended because the staffing agencies challenging it are not likely to succeed on their claims that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempted it, a federal judge ruled.
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May 23, 2025
Ruby Tuesday fired a bartender while she was out on medical leave recovering from a broken hip that she sustained in a car accident and refused to let her return to her former role, she said in a suit filed in North Carolina federal court.
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May 23, 2025
Wage and hour claims may not be the first issues that spring to a worker's mind following a layoff, but since they can be filed on a group basis and give the worker the benefit of the doubt, they are low-hanging litigation fruit for worker advocates.
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May 22, 2025
A suit by a group of nurses accusing a Colorado health system of miscalculating their overtime will stay fully in place, a federal judge ruled, agreeing with a magistrate judge's recommendation not to dismiss the Colorado Minimum Wage Act claim.
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May 22, 2025
Addiction treatment centers in Ohio and Tennessee reached a nearly $738,000 settlement to resolve lawsuits from workers accusing the centers of failing to pay them overtime wages and provide them with meal breaks, a filing in federal court said.
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May 22, 2025
A Bronx man has filed proposed class actions in New Jersey state court against two Garden State country clubs accusing them of failing to pay caddies minimum wage or overtime.