Employment Law

Workers are Entitled to Unpaid Wages Nearly every worker in the United States is entitled to be paid overtime and minimum wage. If you have not been paid overtime or minimum wage, contact us here [...]

Overtime Pay Guaranteed by Federal Law As a general rule, employers are lawfully required to pay all employees overtime pay, unless an employer can prove a certain employee is exempt. If your [...]

Independent Contractor Misclassification Results in Recovery of Six Years of Back Overtime Wages One common way that employers short-change their workers is by misclassifying them as an [...]

Colorado Employers Must Pay Workers Earned Vacation Days Employers have a nearly unlimited number of methods to engage in wage theft and theft of other benefits earned by their workers. One [...]

Pennsylvania Tip Credit Law Finalized to Protect Tipped Workers The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (“DLI”) has finalized and issued for approval a new Pennsylvania Tip [...]

As we wrote about here, last year, New York state added significant wage theft protections for New York construction workers. Wage theft is common in the restaurant and hospitality industries. [...]

Wage Theft is Big Business for Employers As reported here by Forbes, the Economic Policy Institute reported the result of a study showing that, from 2017 to 2020, workers were able to recover $3 [...]

Workers File Class Action Lawsuit Following Kronos Ransomware Attack As we discussed in a prior post (here), the company that sells time-keeping and payroll software called “Kronos” suffered a [...]

Pay Transparency Laws Pay transparency is another worker protection that is being provided in states and jurisdictions across the country. In general, pay transparency requires employers to [...]

Notice of Layoff Under the WARN Act Under federal labor law, employers who are anticipating a plant closure or a mass layoff of workers must provide a notice under the federal Worker Adjustment [...]