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In Fair Labor Standards Act cases, plaintiffs sometimes seek to toll the limitations period of any members of the proposed collective where judicial delays occur while a motion for conditional certification is…
If you work in a call center, you may be working “off-the-clock” without realizing it—and that means you could be owed unpaid wages and overtime. Many call center companies require employees to…
You may be entitled to significant compensation if you’re an assistant manager working long hours without overtime pay. Major retailers, including Burlington Coat Factory, Kohl’s, and Rite-Aid, have paid millions to settle…
Injured at Work? You May Have More Options Than You Think If you’ve been injured at work in the Midland-Odessa area, you may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. However, many injured…
If you are a truck driver, you play an essential role in keeping our economy moving. You face long hours on the road, challenging weather conditions, and other risks that come with…
If you’re a commercial truck driver who has been injured while on the job, you may be entitled to significant compensation. Truck accidents can result in serious injuries, including: Traumatic brain injuries…
Truck driving is a vital yet demanding profession, and drivers often work long hours to keep the economy moving. While federal law under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) generally exempts truckers…
A federal court recently issued an important ruling in the unpaid overtime case Warden v. Pilot Catastrophe Services, Inc. In this case, the court compelled arbitration and dismissed the collective action claim,…
As an experienced overtime attorney, I am often asked when employers must pay their employees for travel time. In Walters v. Professional Labor Group, LLC (7th Cir. 2024), the Seventh Circuit clarified…
In a significant ruling for workers classified as independent contractors and denied overtime pay, the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a jury’s verdict awarding unpaid wages to a group of Direct Service…
A federal court in New Mexico recently certified a case as a collective action in which the plaintiff alleged that a hospital center in Las Cruces, New Mexico violated state and federal…
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed a claim for unpaid overtime alleging improper rounding to move forward. Hourly employees sued St. Luke’s Health System, alleging that the automated timekeeping system…
Unitil Service provides “administrative and professional services on a centralized basis” to Unitil Service subsidiaries “including regulatory, financial, accounting, human resources, engineering, operations, technology, energy management and management services.” More specifically, Unitil…
One way companies cheat their workers out of overtime pay is by refusing to pay for travel time. This issue is commonly seen in overtime lawsuits. Here are some common issues that…
My clients have many questions about unpaid wages and overtime pay in Texas. The purpose of this article is to answer some of the most common ones that my clients have regarding…
Gross Negligence in Trucking Accident Cases – What You Should Know Large trucks are a necessary evil on our roads – they carry the goods we need, but they are also dangerous…
A federal judge in Houston struck a cost-sharing provision in an arbitration clause and limited the time period covered by the clause in ruling on the defendant’s motion to compel arbitration of…
Did you or a loved one undergo a routine medical procedure at Baylor Scott & White Surgicare North Dallas, located 12230 Coit Road and suffer severe, life-threatening medical emergency afterwards? If so,…
A former food service manager has filed a collective action alleging that Aramark misclassified her and others and illegally denied them overtime pay in violation of state and federal overtime laws. According…
PepsiCo Inc., along with several of its subsidiaries and related companies, have been sued numerous times for overtime violations related to its failure to timely pay its employees after its timekeeping system…