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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
New 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: […]
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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 […]
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What is Pay Transparency?
Pay Transparency Laws Pay transparency is another worker protection that is being provided in states and jurisdictions across the country. In general, pay transparency requires employers to disclose pay ranges for various jobs that are available. But new laws are also regulating the method and timing of notice. These new laws are aimed at protecting […]
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Are you Entitled to Notice Before a Layoff?
Notice of Layoff Under the WARN Act Under federal labor law, employers who are anticipating a plant closure or a mass layoff of workers must provide a notice under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (“WARN”) Act, which was passed in 1988. See fact sheet here and our previous blog post here. Many states […]
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Workplace Rights for Nursing Mothers
Protections for Pregnant and Nursing Mothers Workers have many protections under federal and state labor laws. These include rights and protections that are specifically aimed at pregnant and nursing mothers. If your employer violated these rights and protections, you may have a claim against your employer to vindicate your rights and to bring your employer […]
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Nevada Workers Entitled to Sick Leave for Any Reason
Nevada Paid Sick Leave Nevada became the second state in the country to pass mandatory paid time off laws. Nevada sick pay regulations require employers to allow workers to use earned sick leave for any reason. While states have often regulated the ways in which vacation or sick time are accrued, states have tended to […]
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Kronos Cyberattack: Does a Cyberattack Excuse My Employer from Paying Me on Payday?
Federal Law Requires Payment of Wages and Overtime In general, employees must be paid on or before each scheduled payday for the work that they have done. Federal and state law requires employers to strictly comply with all wage and overtime payment laws. An employer’s failure to pay wages and overtime on each scheduled payday […]
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Pennies Dumped in the Driveway is Retaliation
Unlawful Retaliation Workers have the right to be paid a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work and they also have the right to complain about not being paid. When workers do complain, employers may not retaliate against those workers who attempt to vindicate their rights. And workers can hire experienced employee rights attorneys, […]
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The Tip Credit and Delivery Workers
The Tip Credit When an employer relies on a worker’s tips to meet its obligations to pay the minimum wage, this is called taking a “tip credit.” The maximum credit an employer can take under federal law is currently $5.12 per hour. The employer must pay, as a cash wage, $2.13 to meet the current […]
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Wage Fixing is Anticompetitive
Texas Court Says Wage Fixing is a Crime In another huge victory for workers, a federal court sitting in Texas has recently held that wage-fixing is a violation of federal antitrust laws and that wage-fixing can be prosecuted as a crime. See United States v. Jindal, Case No. 4:20-cr-00358 (US Fed. E.D. Texas, Nov. 29, […]
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No-Hire Agreements are not Enforceable
Pennsylvania Invalidates “No-Hire” Agreement In another win for employees, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently struck down a “no-hire” agreement between two unrelated corporations. See Pittsburgh Logistics Systems, Inc. v. Beemac Trucking, LLC, Case No. 31 WAP 2019 (Penn. Supreme Court, April 29, 2021). The case is notable for many reasons including the fact that the […]
