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Workers Entitled to Paid Leave in Colorado
Attention Colorado Workers: PAID Health and Family Leave Law Goes Into Effect Soon. Workers are entitled to paid leave in Colorado. Under federal labor laws, workers are entitled to take a certain amount of time off of work to handle health and family care matters. Employers are NOT allowed to punish or retaliate against workers […]
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New Mexico Tip Sharing Laws for Restaurant Workers
Tips, Tip Credits, and New Mexico Tip Sharing Laws If you are a restaurant worker in New Mexico who receives tips, this article will tell you everything you need to know about tips, tip credits, and New Mexico Tip Sharing Laws. If you are a restaurant worker in New Mexico and your employer violates your […]
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New Mexico PAID Sick Leave
New Mexico Workers Entitled to PAID Sick Leave Effective on July 1, 2022, all workers in New Mexico are now legally entitled to PAID sick leave. See media report here. Many employers provide paid sick leave, but many New Mexico employers do not. In particular, those on the lower end of the pay spectrum — […]
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Maryland Employment Laws are Enhanced
Maryland Enhances Workers’ Rights to a Nonviolent Workplace Maryland Employment Laws are designed to protect workers in Maryland. As an employee, you have significant rights that can be vindicated by your local and state labor department and in a court of law. Among those rights are the right to a workplace that is free of […]
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Off-the-Clock Work is Illegal
If you have done off-the-clock work and you did not get paid for the work, call us. You are entitled to get paid for ALL work done and, here at Herrmann Law, we can help you get your back pay. We are top-tier worker-focused wage and hour litigators. Have You Done Off-the-Clock Work? Off-the-clock work […]
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Unpaid Wages is Wage Theft
Workers are Entitled to Unpaid Wages Nearly every worker in the United States is entitled to be paid overtime and minimum wage. If you have not been paid overtime or minimum wage, contact us here at Herrmann Law. We can pursue your unpaid wages and overtime claims to recover the money that you are due. […]
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I Did Not Get My Overtime Pay: What Should I Do?
Overtime Pay Guaranteed by Federal Law As a general rule, employers are lawfully required to pay all employees overtime pay, unless an employer can prove a certain employee is exempt. If your employer does not pay you overtime and you do not fall into one of the few exemptions, call us for a free consultation. […]
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Illegal Tip Pooling
What is Illegal Tip Pooling? In any industry where tips are customary, like in the restaurant and service industries, employers are allowed to engage in what is called “tip pooling.” Tip pooling means that employees who receive tips are required to contribute tips to tip share or tip pool. The pooled tips may then be […]
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Healthcare Worker Misclassified as Independent Contractor
Independent Contractor Misclassification Results in Recovery of Six Years of Back Overtime Wages One common way that employers short-change their workers is by misclassifying them as an “independent contractor” rather than as an “employee.” Employers do this to avoid paying overtime, minimum wages, and to avoid providing workers with their other rights (like unemployment and […]
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Colorado Workers are Entitled to Earned Vacation Days
Colorado Employers Must Pay Workers Earned Vacation Days Employers have a nearly unlimited number of methods to engage in wage theft and theft of other benefits earned by their workers. One example is forcing workers to forfeit their earned vacation days and paid time off. However, some states like Colorado have stepped up to protect […]
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Servers: Where are your Credit Card Tips?
Servers are Lawfully Entitled to Credit Card Tips. It is extremely common for customers to pay tips via their credit cards as part of the general payment process. This can create an opportunity for employers to engage in wage theft and to violate the labor rights of their tipped employees. These are the general rules […]
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Pennsylvania Tip Credit Law
Pennsylvania Tip Credit Law Finalized to Protect Tipped Workers The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (“DLI”) has finalized and issued for approval a new Pennsylvania Tip Credit law to protect Pennsylvania tipped workers. See news media report here. The new Rule focuses on three areas of importance to protect tipped workers in Pennsylvania: Who […]
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Wage Theft Law for New York Construction Workers goes into Effect
As we wrote about here, last year, New York state added significant wage theft protections for New York construction workers. Wage theft is common in the restaurant and hospitality industries. But, wage theft is just as common in the construction industry particularly because there are so many layers of businesses and workers tasked with new […]
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Wage Theft: Workers Recover $1 Billion a Year of Stolen Wages
Wage Theft is Big Business for Employers As reported here by Forbes, the Economic Policy Institute reported the result of a study showing that, from 2017 to 2020, workers were able to recover $3 billion in wages they had lost during those years. That is $1 billion a year in wages lost to wage theft […]
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Kronos Cyberattack Update
Workers File Class Action Lawsuit Following Kronos Ransomware Attack As we discussed in a prior post (here), the company that sells time-keeping and payroll software called “Kronos” suffered a cyber- and ransomware attack that shut down — and continues to cause disruptions — for its cloud-based computer systems. Many companies use Kronos for time clock […]
