Wage and Hour

MSE Partner David Ricksecker speaks at Current Developments in Employment Law seminar on July 26, 2024.

On June 24, 2024, the United States Supreme Court agreed to review the claims of a Coast Guard reservist seeking differential pay to make up the difference between his civilian employee pay and the lower pay he received while called up to Coast Guard service.

Oregon, Nevada, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, along with local jurisdictions across the country, increased the minimum wages effective July 1, 2024.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a final order approving the settlement of claims filed by employees who alleged that their employer had an unwritten policy forcing them to under-report their work hours.

On April 1, 2024, a federal district court in New Mexico preliminary approved a class action settlement on behalf of approximately 250 budtenders employed by Medicine Man Technologies Inc. (doing business as Schwazze) in New Mexico and Colorado. The settlement provides the budtenders in the Settlement Class with a total of $525,000 to resolve their claims that the cannabis company unlawfully required them to share tips with supervisory employees called Shift Leads in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and New Mexico law.