Eight nursing staff illegally fired over union organizing efforts spent years fighting for backpay while management dragged compliance hearings through multiple delays. 8 Workers Discharged 6+ Years of Backpay Dispute $100M+ Parent Company Annual Revenue Scale TL;DR: Bluefield Regional Medicalβ¦
Workplace Accountability Β· Wage Theft Claims A grocery-store worker says she had to show up 15 minutes before her shift, only to wait outside locked stores when opening managers had not arrived. Based on a Second Circuit opinion decided Octoberβ¦
Labor Rights / NLRB Decision A default judgment treats as admitted that Lone Spur Cafe Queen Creek (a cowboy themed hamburger restaurant) threatened and fired four employees for raising workplace concerns. The restaurant’s lawyer now says it’s since closed andβ¦
Wage law Β· Long-term care AssureCare paid live-in caregivers a flat daily rate while their work stretched from early morning into interrupted nights. Washingtonβs Supreme Court held that the stateβs wage exemption was unconstitutional as applied to caregivers in adultβ¦
TL;DR A California appeals court affirmed that James R. Glidewell, Dental Ceramics, Inc. only had to pay $515,965 in civil penalties after being found liable on four separate Labor Code violations spanning thousands of pay periods and years of underpayment.β¦
Wage Theft at Grand Wailea: The Per-Hour Victory TL;DR The HawaiΚ»i Supreme Court ruled that minimum wage must be paid for each individual hour worked, rejecting the federal “workweek averaging” loophole. Grand Wailea (Waldorf Astoria) was accused of paying spaβ¦
TL;DR Starting in 2020, Amazon required warehouse workers to pass a mandatory COVID-19 symptom screening before they were allowed to clock in for their shift. The screening took 10 to 15 minutes, happened on Amazon’s property under Amazon’s control, andβ¦
Litigation Tactics / Wage & Hour Case file: Overby v. Anheuser-Busch, LLC, No. 25-1520 (4th Cir., decided June 15, 2026) TL;DR Hourly workers at Anheuser-Busch’s Williamsburg, Virginia brewery sued the company, claiming they weren’t paid for required tasks like puttingβ¦
TL;DR The Department of Labor sued Comprehensive Healthcare Management Services LLC, sixteen related entities, and CEO Samuel Halper on behalf of nearly 6,000 employees across 15 Pennsylvania nursing and rehab facilities for wage and hour violations. After a bench trial,β¦
TL;DR Schlumberger paid skilled oil rig workers a hybrid wage: a small guaranteed biweekly salary plus a daily “rig rate” that made up the majority of their actual pay. Workers routinely clocked more than 40 hours a week and receivedβ¦