The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division has reported finding substantial violations of minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping provisions in the Massachusetts restaurant industry. The division’s Boston District Office has discovered 1,307,808 dollars in back wages that are due to 478 workers in various establishments. The ongoing investigation is currently in the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Oracle Corp is being sued by its ex-employees from Arizona and Colorado. According to them they are not paid by the company for travel to California while the company requires them to work more than 8 hours per day. There are some difference between paid overtime laws in California and those set by FLSA. FLSA [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 20, 2012
A woman working as a sewing manager resigned from her position and promptly sued her employers for overtime wages that she felt she was owed. The rulings from both a district court and an appeals court varied slightly, but the end result was the same. The plaintiff was hired in 2001 and promoted in 2004 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Working for a diva may have its perks. But a personal assistant to a celebrity is at that person’s beck and call, and sometimes all that work and time might not seem worth it. Especially when you aren’t being paid for it. Jennifer O’Neill had such a job, employed for 13 months as a personal [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Be careful when monitoring your employees time worked each day, as some time that you might not consider “compensable time” might actually be considered as such. Recently, at Farmers Insurance, the Department of Labor ruled that the 5 minutes it took for call center workers to turn on their computers and get everything loaded on [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 15, 2011
With reference to the ‘overtime claim’ suit filed by three non-resident instructors who worked in California, the California Supreme Court has decided that the state’s overtime laws will be applicable to non-resident workers also. The court declared that California’s overtime law applies to all work performed in the state in excess of eight hours in [...]
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