Overtime Law

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 [...]

What is Illegal Tip Pooling? In any industry where tips are customary, like in the restaurant and service industries, employers are allowed to engage in what is called “tip pooling.” [...]

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 [...]

Servers are Lawfully Entitled to Credit Card Tips. It is extremely common for customers to pay tips via their credit cards as part of the general payment process. This can create an opportunity [...]

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 [...]