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DHL Settles Vacation Pay Lawsuit for Up To $10.5 million

Documents filed with the court indicate that a settlement agreement has been reached whereby DHL will pay up to $10.5 million to settle unpaid vacation pay claims brought on behalf of DHL’s former employees in California who lost accrued benefits as a result of a...

| April 1, 2011

FLSA Overtime Law

The Evolving Workplace: Exempt and Non-Exempt Employees When Congress updated the FLSA overtime law (Fair Labor Standards Act) in 1994, they did so with an eye to updating the changing face of the American employment landscape. Advancing technology has not only simplified the average Americans...

| April 1, 2011

FLSA Overtime

Q: I am having some overtime pay problems at work and did a Google search. I keep running acrossthe term “FLSA Overtime.” What is FLSA and what does it have to do with overtime? FLSA overtime refers to the Fair Labor Standards Act, and it is...

| March 15, 2011

Overtime Lawsuit

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) states that most people, who work more than 40 hours in a 7 day workweek, must be paid 1.5 times their regular rate of pay, which is called overtime. An overtime lawsuit is one in which a company is...

| March 3, 2011

$15,000,000 CLASS ACTION WAGE CLAIM SETTLEMENT

Dick's Sporting Goods Properly Paying Overtime According to recent filings with the federal court in New York, Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. has agreed to pay up to $15 million to resolve a number of wage-related claims brought by current and former employees who say the...

| February 10, 2011

Targeting Independent Contractor Misclassification

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated that more than 10.3 million workers in the United States, over 7% of the entire workforce, are classified by businesses as Independent Contractors. A Department of Labor study in 2000 concluded that up to 30% of businesses misclassified...

| February 10, 2011

$4,000,000 Awarded in California Retaliation Claim

The FLSA (federal Fair Labor Standards Act) and similar state labor laws prohibit employers from retaliating against employees who exercise their rights under the law. When an employer is found to have engaged in such unlawful retaliation, the consequences can be costly. For example -...

| February 10, 2011

LATE FINAL PAYCHECKS MAY SUBJECT EMPLOYER TO PENALTY

Former employees of Chipotle restaurant have sued the company claiming that it did not pay them their final wages in a timely manner after they were terminated for failing to provide documents proving they are eligible to work in the U.S. These terminations came in...

| February 9, 2011

Restaurant Workers Recover $420,000 in Unpaid Wages

Two Washington state Chinese restaurants have agreed to pay $420,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 83 employees in order to settle a wage and hour lawsuit filed against them by the Department of Labor (DOL) that alleged several violations of the federal Fair...

| January 25, 2011

Oilfield Workers & Overtime Pay

A number of lawsuits have been filed against several oilfield service companies, including: FracTech Moody International ENGlobal And, WellsCo by workers seeking to recover unpaid overtime pay. Claims for unpaid overtime are being investigated on behalf of similar workers at other companies. The following are...

| January 24, 2011

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