The state of Nevada will pay a group of correctional officers $55 million to end litigation over uncompensated off-the-clock work after a federal judge lent her final stamp of approval to the deal, ending a long-running suit that began nearly a decade ago.
A staffing firm and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. called on a New York federal judge to ship a pair of nurses' claims for unpaid overtime to arbitration, telling the court that the workers signed binding arbitration agreements.
A California federal judge pressed pause on a worker's proposed wage class action against Victoria's Secret Stores, ruling that claims for wages stemming from time spent undergoing COVID-19-related temperature checks may be similar to those filed in earlier actions.
A Texas federal judge entered a $366 million judgment Thursday in favor of a Black worker who was found by a jury to have been fired by FedEx in retaliation for complaining about racial discrimination, rejecting the company's bid to shake the verdict.
An Illinois federal judge signed off on a $1.3 million deal between nurses and the nursing facilities that employed them to settle the workers' allegations that they were underpaid for overtime work after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.