SAN DIEGO – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $500,256 in back wages for six deli workers who were not paid the local minimum wage for regular hours or overtime premiums for hours worked over 40 per workweek. The department’s Wage and Hour Division...
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2026 agency rule list (which is normally semiannual) was released in early July 2026, and includes eight Wage and Hour Division new and previously proposed rules, including proposals related to tipped employees, young workers...
Summary of NLRB Decisions for Week of June 29 - July 2, 2026 [email protected] Thu, 07/16/2026 - 17:59 The Summary of NLRB Decisions is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended to substitute for the opinions of the NLRB. Inquiries should be...
In Trump v. Barbara, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Administration’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship by executive action and left intact the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee that children born in the United States are U.S. citizens at birth, regardless of...
Employers usually picture depositions and performance records when they think about defending an employment lawsuit — not procedure. But some of the most effective defenses never reach the merits at all. A recent 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Many employers rely on arbitration agreements with class action waivers, provisions that prevent employees from filing or joining collective lawsuits, to manage wage and hour litigation risk. That strategy works reliably in states like California where courts...
On July 6, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that a Black male employee who alleged he was pushed to transfer teams after his manager expressed disagreement with the “Black Lives Matter” movement and then later had his position eliminated...
On July 10, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a joint request by the CFPB and employees represented by its union to pause litigation concerning the CFPB’s proposed 2026 reduction-in-force plan. The court’s order leaves the existing...
The company used “a constellation of internal artificial-intelligence systems” to determine who would be included in its 10% reduction in force, per a lawsuit. The company used “a constellation of internal artificial-intelligence systems” to determine who would be...
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