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Lawsuit: Apple Failed to Include the Value of Stock Awards When Calculating Overtime

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...

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Court Approves $8 Million Overtime Settlement for Google Hourly Employees

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...

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General Contractors are on the Hook When Subcontractors Don’t Pay Workers

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.

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Changes to Overtime Calculation Rules in Pennsylvania Mean Employers Could Be Underpaying Some Salaried, Nonexempt Employees

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...

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Fake Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments

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...

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New York Employers Fail to Pay Weekly and Get Hit With Wage Class Actions

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...

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Greenfield Care Home Ordered to Pay Workers $2.4 Million in Overtime After Splitting Pay Across Two Companies

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...

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