Wage Law

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 [...]

New York Passes Wage Theft Protections for Construction Workers New York recently enacted a new wage theft law aimed at enhancing protections for construction workers. See the news report here. [...]

Virginia Enacts Pro-Worker Overtime Law for Salaried Employees In 2020 Virginia amended its Wage Theft Law, which we wrote about here. This year, to further bolster employee’s rights to be paid a [...]