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Drywall Installers are “Employees” Entitled to Overtime and Other Benefits  The New Jersey Supreme Court held that a group of drywall installers are New Jersey employees entitled to [...]

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 [...]

New Jersey Wage Violations Discovered The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey recently entered a judgment requiring five New Jersey gas stations to pay more than $300,000 [...]

Are You an Independent Contractor? For years, employers have attempted to skirt employment laws by classifying workers as “independent contractors.” In recent years, workers have started to fight [...]

Marijuana Retail Workers Pursue Claims for Overtime Violations Earlier in December, the marijuana retailer MedMen became subject to a class action lawsuit from former MedMen workers who claim [...]

Violations of Wage Laws A three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently considered whether McDonald’s should be held liable for violations of wage laws. McDonald’s workers [...]

Violations of Wage Laws  In September 2018, the California Labor Commissioner’s Office fined six contractors a total of $573,704 for violations of wage laws after learning about a scheme in which [...]

Overtime Violations Recently, the Infosys company met with a lawsuit based on the company’s alleged overtime violations – failing to pay overtime to its workers. The case in question arose [...]