Wage Law

Salaried-Exempt from Overtime? A federal court of appeals recently issued an opinion holding that, if an employee is paid a day rate (i.e. paid “by-the-day”) that employee is not [...]

Unpaid Health Screening Time As Reuters recently reported, Amazon.com, Inc. is being sued for failing to pay wages to workers required to wait in line for COVID-19 health screening. As reported [...]

It is crucial for employees to know and understand their rights, especially employees working in the restaurant and hospitality industries. If you think your employer has been violating your [...]

Workers Entitled to Compensation for Being “On-Call” Employers have many methods of stealing wages from their workers and even stealing their time. One example of time theft is when [...]

North Carolina workers recently received enhanced protections as the North Carolina legislature passed several amendments to the North Carolina Wage and Hour Act — N.C. Gen. Stat. 95-25.1, [...]

Why “Burden of Proof” Matters for Workers Determining which party has the burden of proof in a legal proceed can be a complicated issue. This is one reason that it is important to [...]

Federal Labor Laws vs State Labor Laws and Why the Difference Matters Protecting the legal rights of employees is complicated. One of the biggest complexities involves the overlap of federal [...]

There is a trend in pro-employee legal protections emerging in states across the nation. Among these emerging protections are laws under the Right of Recall movement. In brief, when new [...]

In a “win” for workers, the federal Department of Labor has proposed new regulations regarding tipped employees, including reinstatement of the 80/20 rule for side work. The new [...]

Generally, federal and state labor laws mandate that any tip or gratuity received by an employee is money that belongs exclusively to the employee who earned the tip. There are some [...]