A recently filed lawsuit accuses Apple of failing to include the value of restricted stock awards (RSUs) when calculating the overtime pay rate for its hourly employees. Companies must include all compensation when determining such rates, and they can be held liable for violating overtime laws if they don’t. If your employer...
A lawsuit accused Google of failing to correctly calculate its hourly employees’ overtime pay by excluding the value of vested restricted stock units and sign-on bonuses. Now, a settlement worth $8.369 million has been reached to compensate those workers. We take a look at what Google did wrong and what employees need...
States are increasingly taking steps to impose joint and several liability on general contractors in cases in which project subcontractors fail to pay their workers what they are owed. This effectively puts contractors on the hook when their subcontractors do not pay their employees proper overtime or other compensation.
Compliance with the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is critical, but it sometimes causes employers to forget their obligations under state laws concerning overtime and other wage rules. Often, state regulations are stricter and more favorable to employees compared to their federal counterparts. The recent changes to...
The overtime laws make a distinction between managers and non-managers. But the threshold set by the government to be considered a manager is fairly low, giving employers the chance to exploit the rules and assign artificial managerial titles to regular workers. This, in turn, allows employers to skirt overtime laws. Unfortunately, employers...
New York state law requires workers who perform significant amounts of manual work to be paid every week. Many large New York employers, using biweekly or semi-monthly payroll schemes, have been sued for untimely payments to their employees, in what are called late payment lawsuits. The law is in place to insure...
Regardless of which industry you work in, there’s a chance your employer will fail to pay you the overtime wages that the law entitles you to be paid. Such was the case recently for 599 home healthcare workers in Texas and Louisiana. Cases like...
A lawsuit that is seeking class action status accuses Peloton of cheating field specialists out of overtime pay for time that was worked during unpaid meal breaks. The case serves as another reminder of the fact that many employers abuse meal periods to cheat their employees out of their wages. If your...
Some employers are quite creative in the lengths they go to avoid paying their employees overtime. One frequently used method is to split hours across multiple legal entities (e.g. corporations), improperly diluting the number of hours that employees work. Such was the case with ComForCare Home Care in Pennsylvania, which was recently...
The last few years have been particularly stressful for home care workers who have had to contend with COVID-19 and, more recently, crippling inflation. Now, those workers are getting a break in New York. The legislature has approved a budget that will raise the pay of home care...
