Wage Law

Watch Your Tips! This article is based on federal law governing the payment of wages, tips, and tip pools. The law in your state may be different from what is written in this article, which may [...]

Is your employer illegally using tips from the tip pool? Have you ever worked at an establishment where the employer mandated that you “tip out” a portion of your earnings to other employees? [...]

Tips, Tip Pools, and Tip Sharing  Seriously: Can My Employer Legally Do That? If the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, then how do some employers (specifically, restaurants) get away with [...]

  I often say that employees in Texas have very few advocates to protect their rights in the workplace. Most laws are designed to protect the employers from being sued, therefore, most [...]

Employers often threaten employees with counterclaims in response to an employee’s lawsuit. However, most employment laws have anti-retaliation provisions which protect an employee from [...]

It is difficult to ask your employer questions about your paycheck, after all employees rarely understand how their wages are calculated (i.e. tax, Medicare, and other governmental deductions) [...]

Who is Legally Entitled to a Customer Tip? Have you ever worked a service job and had an employer claim the tips belong to him or her? Whether the employer is right or wrong depends on several [...]

By Drew N. Herrmann* Have you ever worked at an establishment where the employer mandated that you “tip-out” a portion of your earnings to other employees? This arrangement is called a tip pool. [...]

We get a lot of calls from prospective clients regarding wage deductions from paychecks. The question is simple enough: Can an employer make wage deductions from my paycheck? However, the answer [...]