Irene Spezzamonte

Two seafood companies will shell out $2.1 million to more than 2,300 workers who accused them of paying late and underpaying during mandatory COVID-19 quarantines, as a Washington federal court gave the deal its final OK.

President Joe Biden's decision to increase federal contractors' hourly minimum wage falls under authority that presidents have exercised for 75 years, the U.S. government said, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stay out of the Tenth Circuit's decision keeping the wage hike in place.

The U.S. Department of Labor plans to turn to the Fifth Circuit after a Texas federal court axed the department's rule raising the salary thresholds to consider employees exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Discovery and damages in a former Reed Smith LLP labor and employment attorney's suit claiming gender discrimination will be limited to the effective date of New Jersey equal pay law, a state judge ruled, saying the law doesn't apply retroactively.

Delivery drivers are still falling short of following discovery orders in an almost decade-long suit accusing Amazon of misclassifying them as independent contractors, the e-commerce giant told a Washington federal court, urging it to boot those workers from the case.

EmblemHealth agreed to pay about $3.8 million to end a collective action in New York federal court that accused it of misclassifying insurance grievance specialists as overtime-exempt.

Food company giant Campbell's Soup Co. and its snack-arm Snyder's-Lance Inc. misclassified their food distributors as independent contractors in order to dodge federal and state wage and hour laws, a worker told an Illinois federal court.

Wendy's agreed to shell out $4 million to settle a class action claiming the fast food chain failed to guarantee workers meal and rest breaks, a former employee said, asking a Colorado federal court to sign off on the deal.

A medical assistant resolved a suit in California federal court in which she lodged meal and rest break violations, as well as claims under the Private Attorneys General Act, against a medical network, after a federal judge agreed to dismiss the case.

The U.S. Department of Labor lacked the authority to raise the salary threshold for a Fair Labor Standards Act overtime exemption, a Texas federal judge ruled Friday, striking down a hotly contested rule that has been in effect since July.