Wage and Hour

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.