A Glendale, Arizona plastering business has been ordered to pay more than $700,000 in back wages and damages to 470 employees. The order stems from a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) investigation into the company’s piece-rate pay practices. It’s a case that demonstrates the lengths that many employers will go...
Two North Carolina home care employers failed to pay their employees the correct amount of overtime. Now, those businesses have been held accountable for back wages and damages in excess of $380,000. The Department of Labor (DOL) investigation and subsequent decision is another sad chapter in the ongoing story of...
Many workers are unfortunately denied their hard-earned money because their employers fail to pay them for all hours worked. This was the case recently with a home healthcare provider in Illinois. The employer was ordered to pay over $1.1 million in back wages and damages because it did not compensate...
When employers cheat their employees out of their hard-earned money, the dollars add up. A recent study confirmed this by finding that workers in North Carolina alone are owed over $3.6 billion in unpaid overtime. There are a number of reasons employers engage in wage theft, and the practice is prevalent...
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.
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...
