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New York Warehouse Workers Get More Legal Protections In December 2022, New York passed a new law giving additional legal protections to workers in warehouses and distribution/fulfillment [...]

Employees at Staffing Company are Entitled to Overtime Pay A staffing company in Philadelphia has agreed to a judgment requiring them to pay $9.3 million in back wages and overtime pay in [...]

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 [...]

Can Your Employer Deduct Credit Card Fees from Tips? The Pennsylvania Department of Labor recently issued new regulations according to revised labor laws passed recently by the Pennsylvania [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]