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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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Flying Time is Paid Time Says Washington State Court  A Washington State court has recently held that employees who are engaged in travel for work-related business must be paid for ALL hours [...]

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 [...]