Our previous employment law blog post began a discussion about how the upcoming overtime pay rule could change your income specifically. This post continues the conversation, which comes with warnings and the possibility of good news. As our past post warned in...
In some cases, a worker will take a job, put in their hours and deposit their paycheck without putting a whole lot of thorough thought behind the laws that govern their pay. Wage and hour laws can be confusing -- especially when they evolve over the course of one's...
When it comes to protected classes under employment laws in the United States, religion is most definitely at the top of the protected list. No one should be harassed, mistreated or fired because of his or her religious beliefs. It is wrong, and it is against the...
There have been many changes regarding overtime pay in the United States recently. More workers are eligible for earning overtime pay. This should put employers in the position of more closely examining wage and hour laws within their companies. At least one...
The term wage and hour claims is thrown around on this blog. Having discussed such claims on here in the past, we thought it would be valuable to lay out some of the basic laws governing such cases.The Fair Labor Standards Act provides specific protections and rights...
A German bank will have to reinstate a banker who was terminated following the request of a New York regulator. Commerzbank AG let the banker go as part of settlement for $1.45 billion with United States authorities following a lost appeal to a court in Frankfurt. The...
Anyone who has young children in school is probably extremely aware that food allergies are common; food allergies are on the rise. Just as more and more kiddos seem to be allergic to food such as peanuts, there are more workers within the workforce that suffer from...
Borough President Eric Adams is facing claims that he retaliated against a community board chair after the chair accused him of firing a 66-year-old district manager on the ground that she was too old. The community board chair claims that he was intentionally not...
Take a look around you during your time off sometime. That person sitting next to you at the movie possibly works a very different gig than you do. Maybe he or she puts in 40 hours or more a week, but their job's classification provides them with fewer employee rights...
A former anchor for network giant Fox News has begun to speak publicly about her accusations of sexual harassment in the workplace. Having freshly filed a lawsuit of sexual harassment against her former employer, Roger Ailes, Ms. Gretchen Carlson claims that Mr. Ailes...
