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The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) requires that employers pay all employees, with few exceptions, at a rate equal to or greater than the federal minimum wage. Additionally, the FLSA requires employers to pay most employees time-and-a-half for any hours worked...
As our wage and hour lawyers have repeatedly explained that under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers must pay their employees at least the federal minimum wage for all hours worked and pay overtime at time and one-half for all hours worked over 40 hours in...
The wage and hour lawyers at Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firm have identified and continue to identify the many tricks employers use in an attempt to cheat employees out of their rightfully earned wages and/or block their wage and hour or overtime claims. Last week,...
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act and , employers are required to pay employees at time and half their normal rate for all hours worked over 40 per week. But making a wage and hour or overtime claim is not that simple and requires the knowledge of knowledgeable and...
There are many laws that regulate how employers must treat their employees. As one example, the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) requires that employers pay all employees, with few exceptions, at a rate equal to or greater than the federal minimum wage. Additionally,...
Employers try many tricks to avoid paying overtime at time and half for all hours worked over 40 as required under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Ohio Fair Labor Standards Act. One of the employer’s big overtime tricks is to misclassify an employee as exempt or tell...
Our wage and hour attorneys were recently asked: Are employers required to pay employees for holidays? The answer: well, it depends. Employers are not required to pay non-exempt employees for holidays. Non-exempt employees are those employees subject to the overtime...
The United States Supreme Court recently agreed to decide the issue of what exactly constitutes “changing clothes” under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The FLSA requires employers to pay their non-exempt employees overtime compensation (“time and a-half”) for...
What if an employee works in more than one position at your job? What if an employee has one job title but perform job duties under two or more different positions? With employers looking for fewer employees to perform more job duties these days, an interesting...
As employment attorneys, the members of Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firm spend a lot of time discerning whether our clients have been properly compensated and if our clients properly and/or improperly characterized as “salaried” employees exempt from the Fair Labor...