Employment Law

In the beginning of June 2019, the governor of Alabama signed legislation to combat gender-based wage discrimination which will become effective on September 1, 2019. With the enactment of this [...]

Victims of sexual harassment know how deeply troubling it can be and those feelings are only compounded when the harassment happens at work. For many victims of sexual harassment it also [...]

Timekeeping Errors: Wage and Hour Violations You may not have stopped to consider what happens to the record of your hours worked after you leave your place of work each day. Many workers wrongly [...]

Overtime Violations After an investigation was conducted by the United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of [...]

A federal court in Tennessee recently ordered Hetal Patel Incorporated, which previously owned and operated an Indian Vegetarian Cuisine in Tennessee, for violating minimum wage, overtime, and [...]

Governor of California Jerry Brown signed eight bills into law recently that are designed to prevent sexual harassment and other types of harassment that occur on the job. Breaking the Glass [...]

At the end of October, 2018, a lawyer in Massachusetts filed a wage lawsuit complaint on behalf of nine workers at Happy Lamb Hot Pot in Cambridge, Massachusetts alleging that the restaurant [...]

Woman Claims Restaurant Company Violated Wage Laws A woman in Portland recently initiated legal action against the Cha Cha Cha company related to claims of gender discrimination. According the [...]

Sleep Time Compensation In accordance with a new court ruling, federal wage laws may require trucking companies to compensate truck drivers for every hour spent on the job, which includes time [...]

Oregon Workers File Lawsuit Seeking Equal Pay A researcher and policy developer recently initiated a federal Equal Pay lawsuit against the state of Oregon for paying female workers less than male [...]