Wage Law

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 [...]

New Jersey Wage Violations Discovered The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey recently entered a judgment requiring five New Jersey gas stations to pay more than $300,000 [...]

Side Work May Violate Wage Laws Statistics show that the restaurant industry provides jobs for 15 million people and generates $799 billion each year. Despite the size and scope of the restaurant [...]

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 [...]

Are You an Independent Contractor? For years, employers have attempted to skirt employment laws by classifying workers as “independent contractors.” In recent years, workers have started to fight [...]