March 28, 2025
A Fifth Circuit panel agreed Friday to toss its earlier decision ruling that President Joe Biden had the authority to raise the minimum hourly wage for federal contractors to $15, two weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order nixing the wage bump.
March 25, 2025
The Fifth Circuit's ruling in favor of the Biden administration's mandate increasing the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 per hour must be nixed because President Donald Trump overturned the rule in an executive order, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
March 18, 2025
The Texas attorney general told the Fifth Circuit that its ruling in favor of the Biden administration's mandate increasing the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 per hour must now be thrown out because President Donald Trump overturned the rule in an executive order last week.
March 17, 2025
Former President Joe Biden had the authority to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors through a presidential executive order, the Trump administration's U.S. Department of Labor said, urging the full Fifth Circuit to leave in place a panel's decision backing the wage hike.
February 24, 2025
Several ongoing challenges in federal courts to U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour rules are on hold as President Donald Trump’s administration settles in, leaving the fate of regulations impacting businesses and millions of workers uncertain. Here’s a look at the cases and the rules they are challenging.
February 18, 2025
Republican attorneys general in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana called on the full Fifth Circuit to reconsider a panel's decision backing the Biden administration's contract worker minimum wage hike, saying the ruling contradicts at least 11 other precedential decisions.
February 04, 2025
The Fifth Circuit upended on Tuesday a ruling that blocked an executive order increasing the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 per hour, saying former President Joe Biden acted within his authority when he put forward the regulation because it was intended to promote economy and efficiency.
January 01, 2025
The Biden administration's rules determining overtime eligibility, sorting out whether workers are independent contractors and raising federal contractors' minimum wage face uncertainty in 2025. Here, Law360 looks at how those three rules may change.
December 19, 2024
Courts and the U.S. Government Accountability Office have made several high-profile, consequential decisions for government contractors this year, addressing the constitutionality of the False Claims Act's whistleblower provisions and the limits of the president's authority over federal procurement.
November 13, 2024
The recent Ninth Circuit decision deeming President Joe Biden's increase of federal contractors' hourly minimum wage unlawful clarified that the government's position that it could mandate the hike is absurd, the state of Texas told the Fifth Circuit in its case also challenging the wage hike.