Overtime Law

Employers Cannot Withhold a Worker’s Final Paycheck Even if Worker is Fired  Workers have a right to be paid for the work they have done even if they are fired or quit — with or without notice. [...]

Federal Court Strikes Down DOJ’s Narrow Definition of “Joint Employer” The economic reality for many employees is that they work for more than one employer. Under long-standing [...]

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, [...]

Under the Obama administration, the minimum salary threshold for salary exempt employees increased to $47,476. However, the increase was short-lived when a Court overruled the Obama- rule in [...]

May 1 marked International Workers’ Day. While the event was created to commemorate the Chicago workers who were killed during strikes calling for an eight-hour workday, the event is also used to [...]

In March of 2019, the United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division issued two opinion letters that addressed the Fair Labor Standards Act. While one of the letters detailed the [...]

Food Delivery Company Faces Wage and Hour Lawsuit The popular food delivery app company, Waitr, currently faces a lawsuit initiated by drivers who claim that they are not being paid all of their [...]