September 01, 2022
An Illinois federal judge has trimmed proposed class claims from SkyWest Inc. flight attendants seeking unpaid wages for work they did while on the ground, saying Chicago-based workers didn't have enough facts backing their claims, but workers based in other states had sufficiently fleshed out claims and could forge ahead.
February 14, 2020
Current and former SkyWest flight attendants said Thursday that their Illinois suit seeking unpaid wages for work they did while on the ground is bolstered by a California Supreme Court decision that Apple's off-the-clock employee bag searches counted as compensable work time.
January 01, 2020
The commercial trucking, logistics and gig-economy industries' duels over the independent contractor status of drivers and couriers, as well as clashes over the scope of federal preemption are among the court battles that transportation attorneys will keep their eye on in 2020.