Minimum Wage, Over-Time, Arbitration Agreements

Trucking Companies Face Growing Wage & Hour Class Action Risks

Roetzel & Andress on 7/25/2025

Are you a trucking company? If so, you may be exposed to class action lawsuits for minimum wage, break time, and overtime violations. Trucking companies are essential to our national economy and security. However, trucking...more

Ninth Circuit Clarifies FLSA Collective Action Certification and Jurisdiction

Perkins Coie on 7/8/2025

Key Takeaways - - The Ninth Circuit reaffirmed the “near-universal” two-step process for managing FLSA collective actions. - The Ninth Circuit held that district courts are not required to conclusively determine...more

SCOTUS 2023/24 Lookback and Preview: 8 Key Rulings that Impact the Workplace and 4 New Cases for Employers to Track Next Term

Fisher Phillips on 7/18/2024

The Supreme Court issued several momentous decisions last term that will have a lasting impact on employer practices. The Justices continued to shape the workplace law landscape by ruling on an array of issues involving...more

U.S. Supreme Court upholds arbitration agreements, even in PAGA actions

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 6/16/2022

SCOTUS gives California employers a break. Many California employers can breathe more easily because claims under the California Private Attorneys General Act can no longer be used to circumvent employee agreements to...more

[WEBINAR] 2019 Annual Labor & Employment Update

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 12/11/2019

From independent contractors to privacy to arbitration agreements - the California Legislature was busy in 2019 passing a wealth of new labor and employment laws that impact your business or agency. In this Best Best &...more

Minimum Wage and Overtime Law: The Most Overlooked Employment Issue of the 21st Century

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC on 12/3/2019

The Fair Labor Standards Act regulates minimum wage and overtime due to employees. It was passed in the 1930s. It was largely forgotten until the late 1990s, when some entrepreneurial plaintiffs’ lawyers rediscovered the FLSA...more

Restaurant Employment Law Compliance Checklist: 12 Employment Topics Every Restaurant Company Should Consider Before 2020

FordHarrison on 7/8/2019

Executive Summary: As summer is now in full swing, we find it timely to distribute our Restaurant Employment Law Compliance Checklist. The following 12 topics create compliance challenges in the restaurant industry –...more

January 2019: The Top 16 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 2/11/2019

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Web Exclusive - June 2018: The Top 18 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 7/10/2018

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Food and Beverage Law Update: February 2018

Holland & Knight LLP on 2/20/2018

Deceptive Trade Practices - Meat Exporter Had No Duty Under FCA to Pay for Beef Inspection - In United States ex rel. Barrick v. Parker-Migliorini Int'l, LLC, 878 F. 3d 1224 (10th Cir. 2017), the court affirmed...more

New York Appellate Court Sides Against The Second Circuit And Holds Class Action Waivers Violate The NLRA

Carlton Fields on 8/7/2017

Plaintiffs, former insurance agents for defendants New York Life Insurance Company and its related companies, brought a putative class action seeking recovery for allegedly illegal wage deductions and violations of overtime...more

Arbitrator Must Rule on Independent Contractor Status of Uber Drivers in Class-Action Notwithstanding NLRA Bar to Class Action...

Franczek P.C. on 7/25/2017

Last week, a U.S. District Court Judge in Illinois ruled that an arbitration agreement signed by an Uber driver required arbitration on the issue of whether Uber drivers are employees or independent contractors before the...more

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