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Workers paid a Piece Rate are Entitled to Overtime Pay Federal law requires employers to pay workers overtime for piecework. If you are paid by a piece rate (e.g. by the “piece” or [...]

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. [...]

Calculating Overtime Pay The federal Department of Labor (“DOL”) recently issued a letter providing guidance for employers with respect to calculating overtime payments. Generally, [...]

Federal Court Strikes Down DOJ’s Narrow Definition of “Joint Employer” The economic reality for many employees is that they work for more than one employer. Under long-standing [...]

Overtime Exemption: Motor Carrier Act Under federal law, all employees are entitled to overtime pay unless exempt. We have previously covered some of the more commonly used overtime exemptions [...]

Texas Labor Laws: Minimum Wage & Overtime Pay Unpaid Overtime and Minimum Wage claims are the subject of many, many lawsuits across Texas and across the Country. As a general rule, employees [...]