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You worked the hours. Late nights. Early mornings. Maybe weekends. You’re an employee putting in more than 40 hours a week—and then you look at your paycheck and… nothing extra. No overtime pay. Just the same number. At that point, most employees think one...
Overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) sounds simple until an employer starts treating the law like a suggestion. The basic wage and hour rule is supposed to be straightforward: if an employee works more than 40 hours in any week, the employer generally...
Overtime and wage theft show up in an employee’s life the way a surprise pothole shows up on a dark highway: you do the work, you feel the damage, and your employer acts shocked you’re upset. If you worked extra hours and didn’t get time and a half, you already know...
The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) is a federal law protecting employees overtime and minimum wage rights, which means it does not apply to every job automatically. For a federal law to apply, your work must connect to interstate commerce in some way. That phrase...
When you complain about your overtime, missing pay, or being misclassified as an independent contractor, you expect a fair response. What you don’t expect is your employer quietly shutting the door on your future work by engaging in retaliation or wrongful...
Overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) should be simple: when employees work more than forty hours, the employer must pay time-and-a-half. Yet overtime issues, wage theft schemes, and suspicious wage changes show up in workplaces every day. If you are an...
When Kassandra Memmer went to work for United Wholesale Mortgage (“UWM”) in 2019, she had no idea what was ahead. While employed as a mortgage underwriter, and according to her employment discrimination lawsuit, Memmer faced sexual harassment from a coworker, gender...
If you’re an employee wondering, “Can my employer make me go to arbitration months after I’ve filed a lawsuit?” — you’re not alone. Many workers are shocked to learn that buried in their hiring paperwork is an arbitration agreement their employer never mentioned—until...
Absolutely not. Employers often try to avoid paying overtime by slapping the word “salary” on an employee’s paycheck, but this tactic does not magically erase wage and hour rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In the recent case Keefe v. Britt’s Bow Wow...
You know what happens when Cinderella stays too long at the ball? Midnight strikes, the magic ends, and she’s stuck walking home barefoot. Basketball still on your fingertips when the buzzer sounds? Doesn’t matter if it swishes—the shot doesn’t count. Show up one...