Employment Law

Virginia Adds Teeth to its Wage Theft Law Wage theft is prohibited by federal law and several states have enacted additional state laws that are designed to further prevent and stop wage theft. [...]

Federal Overtime and Wage Laws Must be Honored Even for “Illegal” Businesses  In another win for workers across the country, a federal Court of Appeals recently held that ALL workers are entitled [...]

No Such Thing as “De Minimis” Work: All Work is Work and Workers Deserve to be Paid  We here at Herrmann Law fight for the rights of workers. We believe that all workers have a right [...]

Like most addictions, the addiction to arbitration is expensive. Often touted by defense lawyers and business advocates as a less expensive, more efficient alternative to the court system, [...]

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 [...]

Pennsylvania 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 [...]

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 [...]