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Just a few months ago, a popular Park Street, California restaurant specializing in Thai cuisine was cited for nearly half a million dollars in wage theft violations. According to the press release, cooks, dishwashers, kitchen helpers and servers at Toomie's Thai Cuisine routinely worked up...

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As previously discussed in a prior post relating to shipyard workers employed by a Louisiana-based staffing company, pay schemes in which workers are given per diem payments that make up a significant amount of their total pay should be looked at closely to determine if...

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Harris Health System in Houston, Texas learned an expensive lesson about how to properly calculate employee overtime and has agreed to pay more than $4,000,000 in back overtime wages to 4,573 nurses, lab technicians, respiratory care practitioners, X-ray technicians, medical technologists, registered pharmacy technicians, eligibility...

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A new case filed in the Southern District of Texas seeks to recover unpaid overtime wages for Rosendo Zamora who worked for Baker Hughes as a Closed Loop Operator. This is yet another instance where oilfield workers who are paid using a day-rate or hybrid...

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While times are generally good for California workers employed in the oil and gas drilling business, primarily due to the surge in drilling activity using fracking technology, there are a few things that oilfield workers should be aware of to ensure that they are being...

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A whopping statistic was recently announced, that low-wage workers are robbed more than banks, gas stations, and convenience stores combined – except the perpetrators are their own employers. This statistic is due to the fact that many employers don't abide by minimum wage laws or...

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Commission Pay and Calculating Overtime Wages The question of what types of compensation must be factored into a non-exempt workers overtime pay rate is at the center of another lawsuit, only this time the key issue involves commission pay instead of bonus payments.  In a...

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While most CAD designers and draftsmen are legally entitled to overtime pay, with the recent surge in manufacturing activity spurred largely by oil and gas-related projects, we are seeing more and more instances where CAD designers and draftsmen are being denied proper overtime pay. The...

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One of the most common questions we receive involves workers who are typically being forced to work overtime hours ("mandatory overtime") and do not necessarily want to do so.  The question usually goes something like this - My boss constantly requires us to stay late...

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Calculating Overtime Pay Rate As discussed in our recent blog post titled Should My Bonus Be Included In My Overtime Pay Rate, a common but little known problem in properly calculating workers' overtime pay rate involves the failure of employers to include bonus payments. Failing...

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