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Understanding Federal Wage and Hour Law: How to Win Your Back Overtime Wages Case As an employee, it’s essential to understand your rights and protections under the federal wage and hour [...]

Are you paid a day-rate or paid a salary and putting in long hours but not receiving overtime pay? Don’t be fooled! Just because you are paid a day-rate or a salary doesn’t [...]

Salaried-Exempt from Overtime? A federal court of appeals recently issued an opinion holding that, if an employee is paid a day rate (i.e. paid “by-the-day”) that employee is not [...]

Overtime Pay is Generally Required Under federal labor laws, most employees are entitled to be paid the federal minimum wage (which is currently $7.25 an hour). Furthermore, most employees are [...]

Calculating Overtime Pay If you received any sort of bonus payment from your employer, it is possible that your employer failed to pay you the correct amount of overtime. It is common for [...]

What is a Private Right of Action? A “private right of action” is a legal term meaning that an individual rather than a governmental agency has the right to bring a lawsuit to [...]

Calculating Overtime Pay – “Reimbursements” Under federal labor laws, workers are entitled to receive overtime pay of “time-and-a-half” for any overtime hours they work (i.e. [...]

Under the Obama administration, the minimum salary threshold for salary exempt employees increased to $47,476. However, the increase was short-lived when a Court overruled the Obama- rule in [...]

Pennsylvania Overtime Violations After an investigation was conducted by the United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, the United States District Court for the Eastern District [...]

One of the most commonly misapplied exemptions from overtime is the Administrative Exemption. In my experience, lots of employers wrongly assume that their employees are exempt from overtime just [...]