Wage Law

Each year millions of workers throughout the county are victims of wage theft. To combat wage theft, several states have passed legislation that supplement federal law to strengthen workers’ [...]

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 [...]

Servers: Four Things You Should know about Tip Share Federal laws apply in all 50 states. Your state’s laws may supplement the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, but your state’s law may not [...]

Department of Labor Revises “Joint Employer” Definition: What Restaurant Workers Should Know In May 2019, the United States Department of Labor proposed revisions of what a “joint employer” means [...]

Laws for Restaurant Servers Whether you are a restaurant server working in the front of the house or working back of the house, working in a restaurant is not easy. To make matters worse, in our [...]

In April 2019, a group of restaurant workers in Albuquerque, New Mexico staged protests concerning alleged wage theft in restaurants throughout the city. Some of the techniques the workers [...]

A popular New York City restaurant, the Waverly Inn, currently faces a lawsuit due to claims that the restaurant company failed to pay its waiters and waitresses minimum wage in accordance with [...]

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 [...]