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Balkan workers who say they were brought to work at a Tesla plant only to be denied overtime pay may proceed with their case as a class, as a California federal judge ruled they sufficiently alleged the existence of a uniform pay policy.

A Verizon subsidiary and a class of more than 500 workers who said they were denied overtime, meal and rest breaks and expense reimbursements in violation of federal and California state wage laws received court approval of a $1.6 million settlement to their wage dispute.

Democratic lawmakers reintroduced legislation Wednesday that would guarantee most American workers up to seven days of paid sick days per year and establish a national program that would provide workers with some pay during extended medical leaves of absence.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opted not to hear a Michigan worker's arguments that the Michigan State Administrative Agency Wage and Hour Division wrongly ruled that he had no right to collect $26,000 in accrued paid time off after his firing.

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.

Medical marijuana delivery drivers pursuing overtime pay claims failed to establish that a group of pot growers and processors were either related to each other or were employers with control over workers, the companies told a Pennsylvania federal court.