October 02, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case in which a person who constructs animal enclosures but doesn't handle livestock is exempt from overtime under a carveout for agricultural workers, skipping an opportunity to explain the exemption's breadth.
June 29, 2023
A company using temporary, nonimmigrant workers to construct livestock pens has told the U.S. Supreme Court that a Seventh Circuit decision finding a former employee was not exempt from overtime pay flouts high court precedent and will create a circuit split if left unchecked.
June 15, 2023
A Mexican construction worker who built livestock pens while holding an agricultural worker visa urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to revisit a decision to revive his wage suit, arguing that the dispute was simple and purely procedural in nature.
June 09, 2023
Cases addressing joint employment, class action certification, how to determine when employee protection laws apply and COVID-19 hazard pay for federal workers are some of the many matters vying for review in the U.S. Supreme Court. Here, Law360 presents six wage and hour petitions pending before the high court.
April 11, 2023
The Texas Cattle Feeders Association and a coalition of construction firms specializing in agriculture-related buildings urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Seventh Circuit's ruling that farm construction workers may be owed overtime wages.
April 07, 2023
A pork producers' association urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Seventh Circuit decision to revive a foreign worker's suit for overtime wages for building pig pens, saying the decision narrows the high court's broad interpretation of a farm labor wage exemption.