June 05, 2025
Truckers can continue pursuing as a class their claims that a transportation company failed to pay them for the time they spent sleeping in their cabs, a New York federal court ruled, adopting a magistrate judge's recommendations to grant class certification.
June 21, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a group of construction workers' attempt to revive a proposed class and collective action claiming a group of construction companies failed to pay them overtime required under state and federal law. Here, Â鶹´«Ã½360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
June 13, 2023
Drivers claiming a transportation company cheated them out of wages cannot yet snag class certification because they failed to show enough workers would be part of three classes, a New York federal judge said in an order docketed Tuesday.
January 27, 2023
A New York federal judge on Monday will consider arguments for certifying a class of truck drivers who claim Knight-Swift Transportation has deprived drivers of pay by not paying them for time they spend sleeping in their cabs. Here, Â鶹´«Ã½360 looks at that case and another major labor and employment case on the docket in the state.
January 12, 2022
A transportation company cannot dodge a proposed class action claiming it stiffed its truck drivers on wages, after a New York federal judge on Wednesday turned down the company's bid to ax the workers' overtime and underpayment claims.