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Calculating Overtime Pay The federal Department of Labor (“DOL”) recently issued a letter providing guidance for employers with respect to calculating overtime payments. Generally, [...]

Gig Workers Employees Win Again Gig workers won another major victory, this time in the United Kingdom. As discussed in a prior post, courts across the United States are finding that gig workers [...]

“Good Faith” Defense to Wage and Overtime Claims All employees have a right to be paid for the work they do and are entitled to the protections of all state and federal labor laws. [...]

Employers try to misclassify gig workers as independent contractors to avoid compliance with wage and overtime laws. However, all across the country, gig workers are being protected more and more [...]

Amazon Wage Theft Wage theft is unlawful and happens more often than employees would imagine. Worse still, employers engage in wage theft intentionally and, often, purposely conceal their wage [...]

Workplace Retaliation is Unlawful Did you exercise your rights as an employee only to have your boss retaliate against you? If this has happened to you, your employer can be held liable for money [...]

Am I protected by my State’s Labor Laws? One reason that it is important to seek legal counsel from attorneys that are dedicated to employees’ rights, like those at Herrmann Law, is [...]

New York City “Just Cause” Termination  In mid-December 2020, the New York City Council passed a city ordinance protecting fast-food workers from being fired without cause. See news [...]

Predictive Scheduling Laws are Good for Employees Chicago’s predictive scheduling ordinance went into effect on July 1, 2020. Chicago was the latest large city to enact such legislation. So [...]

What is the ABC Test for Worker Misclassification? Over the last decade or so, courts and legislatures across the country have been adopting a more rigorous test to identify when workers can be [...]