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April 07, 2025
Earned-wage access provider DailyPay sued Letitia James on Monday seeking a declaratory judgment that its payments do not constitute loans under New York law or violate federal and state laws, alleging the state attorney general has effectively declared all such products illegal.
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April 07, 2025
A group of former Twitter employees is trying to force the company now known as X to arbitrate the workers' challenges to allegedly unlawful actions taken after Elon Musk's acquisition of the platform, claiming the social media giant is preventing their cases from moving forward by refusing to pay the full arbitration fees.
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April 07, 2025
An Ohio hospital abruptly laid off more than 100 workers without notice and failed to pay many of those employees their final paychecks, a proposed class action filed in federal court said.
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April 07, 2025
The federal government told the Eleventh Circuit that four freelance writers didn't have standing to challenge former President Joe Biden's final independent contractor rule, adding that the U.S. Department of Labor is currently reconsidering the rule under the new administration.
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April 07, 2025
A handful of states and Los Angeles are considering legislation that would publicize wage violators, halt work due to independent contractor misclassification, extend paid leave to take care of non-blood relatives and address other issues. Here, Law360 explores wage and hour updates to watch.
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April 07, 2025
Several New York Police Department officers agreed to settle claims alleging that a real estate company they performed off-duty uniformed security work for paid them late, but their suit against the Police Department and dozens of companies remains, according to federal court filings.
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April 07, 2025
Amazon's attorneys should be sanctioned for coercing potential collective members in a wage and hour case to provide testimony without properly filling them in on the litigation, delivery drivers told a Washington federal court.
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April 07, 2025
A Teamsters local urged a Missouri federal court to uphold an arbitration award requiring Unilever to reinstate an employee who was let go for allegedly falsifying company records, arguing the arbitrator issued a reasonable decision that the worker was fired without just cause.
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April 07, 2025
Whole Foods has agreed to resolve a lawsuit claiming the grocery chain rigged an employee bonus program to reduce payouts to workers, according to a filing in D.C. federal court.
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April 07, 2025
Woody Allen struck a deal with his former private chef to resolve his suit accusing the filmmaker of abruptly firing him after he took time off to participate in military exercises as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, a filing in New York federal court said.
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April 07, 2025
A Texas federal court tossed an attorney's suit accusing Harris County, Texas, of failing to accommodate his leave requests and instead punishing him with a negative performance review after the parties said they reached a deal ahead of trial.
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April 07, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review a Fourth Circuit opinion finding that inmates working at a Baltimore County, Maryland, recycling facility might be covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act and entitled to minimum wages.
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April 04, 2025
Two Colorado residents who worked at the Denver International Airport have sued the staffing company that employed them, accusing it in state court of shorting them on overtime by failing to factor in their holiday incentive pay.
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April 04, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to reverse a Connecticut federal judge's decision giving final approval to a class and collective action settlement between a home health care company and workers based on a memorandum of understanding that the company claims is unenforceable.
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April 04, 2025
California’s Legislature is considering bills that seek to update the state’s equal pay laws, bar employers from using so called stay-or-pay contracts and harmonize the meaning of family across paid leave laws. Here, Law360 explores these three bills that will drive discussion on workers’ rights.
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April 04, 2025
An arbitrator correctly tossed a New Jersey State Police troopers union's grievance over overtime calculations because the collective bargaining agreement is ambiguous on which benchmark to use, a state appellate panel ruled Friday.
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April 04, 2025
The former chief commercial officer of a cryptocurrency startup accused the company of reneging on its promise to pay him wages and coin commissions for his work facilitating the firm's registration and legal trading in Canada, in a new lawsuit filed in New York federal court.
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April 04, 2025
A Washington nurse has filed a proposed class action alleging Seattle Children's Hospital broke state law by failing to schedule or provide mandatory rest and meal breaks, in a state court complaint that said the problem was made worse by understaffing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 04, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit in a challenge to California's independent contractor classification law by trucking industry groups and two drivers, a case that previously went before the appeals court. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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April 04, 2025
Fast-growing Pierson Ferdinand LLP has announced a labor and employment attorney with more than 40 years of experience has joined the firm from Fox Rothschild LLP as a partner based in New York and Princeton, New Jersey.
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April 04, 2025
Drexel University cannot unravel a $355,000 award for a philosophy professor after a jury found she was willfully paid less than her male colleagues out of bias, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Friday, saying the court wouldn't rethink disciplining the university for failing to provide pertinent pay data.
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April 04, 2025
A Georgia children's therapy provider agreed Friday to pay about $127,000 to resolve a collective action accusing it of failing to pay registered behavior technicians for time they spent working before appointments, performing administrative work and doing other off-the-clock work.
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April 03, 2025
A Washington state judge has put Seattle-area hospital system Swedish Health Services on the hook for state wage law violations in an employee class action, finding workers were shortchanged by its timekeeping practices and failure to provide a second meal break on longer shifts.
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April 03, 2025
A dentist group owes a Colorado orthodontist more than $400,000 in wages and fired him for participating in a Texas arbitration involving the company, according to a lawsuit filed in Colorado state court.
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April 03, 2025
UFC has urged a Nevada federal court not to certify a class of fighters in the second antitrust lawsuit it is facing over allegedly suppressed wages, saying the class is legally defective because the plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit cannot represent the group of fighters.