November 22, 2023
An appellate opinion may breathe new life into a case that a lower court dismissed, or throw out a decision with instructions to conduct a fresh analysis that adopts a new legal test. Here, Law360 reviews what happened in five minimum wage and overtime cases where an appellate ruling changed the course of the litigation.
July 12, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor’s recent victory in a tipped wages rule challenge could be short-lived, attorneys said, as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider tossing the Chevron doctrine at the heart of the ruling. Law360 explores what could come next in the case.
July 06, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor's rule limiting subminimum-wage payments to tip-earning workers is permissible under federal labor law, a Texas federal judge ruled Thursday, declining restaurant industry groups' competing bid for a win and renewed request to block the law.
June 29, 2023
In the first half of 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court found that a highly paid oil rig worker was entitled to overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act and a federal circuit court adopted a new approach to wage and hour collective actions. Here, Law360 recaps five rulings so far this year.
May 26, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor has rolled out plans for rules addressing specific topics such as overtime, minimum wage and tipped workers, as well as broader issues such as how to decide whether wage and hour protections even apply. Here, Law360 reviews the status of the Wage and Hour Division's rulemaking.
May 03, 2023
The Fifth Circuit's finding that a U.S. Department of Labor minimum wage rule has caused irreparable harm to restaurants by imposing $177 million in annual compliance costs is likely to be overshadowed by an upcoming ruling where the price tag isn't a factor, attorneys told Law360. Here, Law360 answers questions raised as a Texas federal court considers the DOL rule.
January 24, 2023
Recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings reining in federal agencies that overstep their mandate from Congress are likely to be the anchor of legal challenges to recent Wage and Hour Division rules, former agency officials told Law360.
December 20, 2022
Challenges to U.S. Department of Labor minimum wage regulations and questions about whether employers must pay for time workers spend in preshift COVID-19 screenings took a prominent role in the past year of wage and hour litigation. Here, Law360 revisits five major wage and hour decisions that made a significant impact.
November 14, 2022
A routine reassignment of a dispute over a Biden administration minimum wage rule to a new federal judge may lead to a fresh analysis of the arguments and offer hope to the business group that brought the challenge, which suffered an unfavorable preliminary ruling.
July 22, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor told a Texas federal court Friday that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision finding that the government can't regulate greenhouse gas emissions does not invalidate an agency rule regulating tipped wages, pushing back on restaurant advocacy groups that said otherwise.