Fair Wage Laws
Si usted ha trabajado en un proyecto de obras públicas en Nuevo México —como una escuela, una carretera o un edificio del gobierno— probablemente tenía derecho a recibir el salario prevaleciente correspondiente…
If you have worked on a public works project in New Mexico—such as a school, highway, or government building—you were likely entitled to be paid the prevailing wage for your trade. These…
If you’ve been working long hours and not receiving overtime pay because your employer says you’re an “independent contractor,” you’re not alone—and you may have a legal claim for unpaid wages. A…
For years, mortgage companies have used a range of compensation schemes to avoid paying employees the overtime wages they are legally entitled to. Workers with job titles such as “mortgage loan originator,”…
A recent ruling from the U.S. District Court in Delaware has major implications for current and former Anheuser-Busch employees who were paid a salary but performed manual labor tasks. In Nelson v….
In a recent ruling, a federal Arizona judge ordered a former Barrett Financial Group employee to arbitrate her unpaid overtime claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The decision reinforces a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…