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Pennsylvania Invalidates “No-Hire” Agreement  In another win for employees, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently struck down a “no-hire” agreement between two unrelated [...]

Flying Time is Paid Time Says Washington State Court  A Washington State court has recently held that employees who are engaged in travel for work-related business must be paid for ALL hours [...]

New York City Passes Gig Worker Protection Laws On September 23, 2021, New York City passed a package of city laws aimed at protecting the City’s “gig economy” workers, [...]

Salaried-Exempt from Overtime? A federal court of appeals recently issued an opinion holding that, if an employee is paid “by-the-day,” that employee is not exempt from overtime—and [...]

Unpaid Health Screening Time As Reuters recently reported, Amazon.com, Inc. is being sued for failing to pay wages to workers required to wait in line for COVID-19 health screening. As reported [...]

It is crucial for employees to know and understand their rights, especially employees working in the restaurant and hospitality industries. If you think your employer has been violating your [...]

Workers Entitled to Compensation for Being “On-Call” Employers have many methods of stealing wages from their workers and even stealing their time. One example of time theft is when [...]

North Carolina workers recently received enhanced protections as the North Carolina legislature passed several amendments to the North Carolina Wage and Hour Act — N.C. Gen. Stat. 95-25.1, [...]

Why “Burden of Proof” Matters for Workers Determining which party has the burden of proof in a legal proceed can be a complicated issue. This is one reason that it is important to [...]

Federal Labor Laws vs State Labor Laws and Why the Difference Matters Protecting the legal rights of employees is complicated. One of the biggest complexities involves the overlap of federal [...]