Jon Steingart

Although COVID-19 demanded much of state lawmakers’ attention over the past year, legislators still found time to enact workplace bias statutes unrelated to the pandemic. Here, Law360 rounds up seven notable state discrimination and harassment laws that employers will soon have to observe.

When the newly confirmed Labor Department solicitor Seema Nanda takes charge, she’ll have her work cut out for her as she leads the agency’s enforcement of employment law and counsels policymakers, former DOL officials told Law360.

O’Reilly Auto Enterprises asked a California federal judge Thursday to toss a lawsuit claiming the retailer should pay distribution center employees for time spent undergoing security and COVID-19 screenings, saying that time isn’t compensable because it’s not integral to their work and the amount i…

President Joe Biden’s recent executive order on diversity, equity and inclusion in the federal workforce is a step in the right direction to help reduce paycheck inequality, employment law experts say.

Nearly six months into President Joe Biden’s administration, the regulatory agenda has largely consisted of pausing and rolling back wage and hour policies the government began under former President Donald Trump.

The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday proposed scaling back the circumstances under which an employer may pay a lower minimum wage to workers who earn tips.

The U.S. Department of Labor announced plans for a slate of new regulations surrounding pay for workers, and members of the U.S. Senate voted to advance some of President Joe Biden’s picks for leadership roles at the agency. Here, Law360 summarizes the week’s wage and hour developments involving the…

Danielle Fuschetti of Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP has negotiated pay discrimination settlements that included millions of dollars in payouts and programmatic changes in the workplace, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

Direct sellers and door-to-door salespersons are frequently classified as independent contractors – and that classification is increasingly under...

A group of social services workers have slapped their employer with a wage dispute in Pennsylvania federal court, arguing that it shorthanded them on overtime pay.

President Joe Biden has nominated David Weil to head up the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, reprising the role Weil held during the Obama administration, the White House announced Thursday.

A Papa John’s franchisee agreed to pay more than $3 million to pizza delivery drivers who accused the company of failing to properly pay their wages, saying it under-reimbursed their car expenses, according to a filing in Ohio federal court.

Morgan Stanley and a former chief diversity officer have agreed to end the executive’s suit claiming she was ousted for trying to address inequality at the investment firm and advocate for Black employees, the parties told a New York federal judge Monday.

The U.S. Department of Labor on Wednesday put the final nail in the coffin of a Trump-era rule for determining whether to classify workers as employees who are entitled to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s wage protections or independent contractors who are not.

Employers of workers who regularly receive tips, such as servers and bartenders, are allowed to pay a lower minimum wage as long as customer gratuities make up the difference, but navigating the rules can be difficult. Here, Law360 provides pointers for employers navigating tip credit rules.

Victoria’s Secret has unlawfully denied employees compensation for time spent in mandatory off-the-clock COVID-19 temperature screenings, a proposed class said in California federal court in a lawsuit against the lingerie and clothing chain.

Postmates Inc. has agreed to drop its attempts to appeal rulings in two cases that compelled the company to arbitrate with thousands of couriers who claimed misclassification as independent contractors, asking the Seventh Circuit and Ninth Circuit to dismiss each of the appeals.

A pair of business lobbying groups sued the U.S. Department of Labor in Texas federal court Friday, alleging the agency acted illegally when it moved to delay the effective date of a Trump-era rule for determining whether businesses can classify workers as independent contractors.

Postmates Inc. must arbitrate the claims of thousands of delivery drivers who say the company misclassified them to avoid wage obligations, a California federal judge has ruled, rejecting the company’s argument that a state law governing the enforcement of such pacts is unconstitutional.

President-elect Joe Biden is bound to take labor and employment policy in a different direction than his predecessor once he takes office Jan. 20. Here, Law360 profiles some of the possible contenders to be labor secretary in the new administration.