Wage and Hour Claims
School Bus Company Settles Wage and Hour Lawsuit with Drivers for $1.6M
A school bus company – First Student, Inc. – has just agreed to settle a wage and hour class action lawsuit brought by its drivers based on alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). According to the lawsuit, the bus drivers were illegally denied pay they deserve for maintenance duties performed both before…
Read MoreRetaliation For Complaining About Misclassification May Violate The FLSA
One of the goals of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is to provide minimum protections to workers, such as minimum wage and overtime pay. In order to ensure that the workers can assert their rights, the FLSA also protects them from retaliation. “Retaliation” refers to actions taken by your employer that negatively affect your…
Read More“Unpaid” Summer Internships May Violate Federal Labor Laws
With the summer approaching, many college students seek out internships. Frequently these are “unpaid,” with the intended purpose that the student gain necessary experience in order to later obtain a paying job in his or her field of interest. However, stringent rules define just when an employer must pay an intern. The failure to follow…
Read MoreWage Laws and Tipped Workers – What Are Your Rights?
Several sources have reported that wage and hour lawsuits are on the rise, often as the result of violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and/or state labor laws. Many times, these lawsuits arise concerning how “tipped workers” such as wait staff, bartenders and others who depend on tips as a portion of their…
Read MoreOvertime Compensation And Sleeping On The Job
A recent overtime lawsuit raised an interesting question – what employment laws apply when workers are required to “sleep on the job”? The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides workers many protections, including requiring that workers be paid at least minimum wage and that non-exempt workers be compensated at a rate of one and one-half…
Read MorePresident Obama Seeks To Amend FLSA
President Barack Obama has just released a Presidential Memorandum directing the Secretary of Labor to “propose revisions to modernize and streamline the existing overtime regulations” aimed at revising the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The FLSA, enacted in 1938 was designed to provide workers necessary labor protections such as minimum wage and overtime pay.…
Read MoreMcDonalds Workers Filed Wage and Hour Claims
McDonald’s workers in 3 states have filed wage and hours lawsuits against the fast food giant – including both the company and several franchise owners. The lawsuits allege numerous Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations, including illegally underpaying employees by erasing hours from the workers time cards, failing to pay required overtime and ordering them…
Read MoreUnpaid Volunteer Files Unpaid Wage Lawsuit Against MLB
News reports that a volunteer of the 2013 All-Star FanFest has filed an unpaid wage lawsuit against Major League Baseball (MLB) for unpaid wages. According to the wage and hour lawsuit, more than 2000 unpaid volunteers were instrumental in getting MLB’s “FanFest,” off the ground. FanFest is described as “the largest interactive baseball theme park…
Read MoreAre Hospitals Paying Workers Enough Overtime?
According to the New York Times, the Obama administration has started investigating pay practices throughout the health care industry after hospitals around the country have been sued based on the failure to pay proper overtime to nurses and other employees who work more than 40 hours a week. The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) provides that all non-exempt…
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