Last year marked a movement from San Francisco to New York for lower-paid employees in the retail and food service industries to rally together in protest of near-poverty minimum wage levels. The Gap store stunned employees by making a surprise announcement that it...
A new regulation issued by the Obama Administration will extend minimum wage and overtime protections to home aides who care for disabled persons and older adults. Starting on January 1, 2015, all home aides will be covered under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)...
When New Yorkers order pizza in the city, they may not be aware that their delivery person is depending on a tip for their service. While the minimum wage in New York is $8.00 an hour, the minimum wage for those earning tips is only $5.00. The employer is supposed to...
A Louisiana wholesale supplier of crayfish and seafood products has been fined almost $250,000 by the U.S Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).According to reports, the company was charged...
As the New Year ushers in major changes in the minimum wage affecting the little guy in a major city like New York, Boeing machinists are voting on a critical labor contract that could cost thousands of jobs and put billions of dollars in flux in our economy. Boeing...
New York State has a new minimum wage law on the horizon, and it has been a long time coming. The new law, slated to take effect at the end of 2013, will see an increase from $7.25 to $8.00, then set to increase again in 2014 and in 2015. This will affect the work...
New York State Attorney General Eric. T. Schneiderman along with officials from the New York State Department of Labor and the United States Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division signed memoranda in late November vowing to better protect the rights of employees...
The management of a taco catering truck has two weeks to respond to a lawsuit claiming one of their workers was overworked and underpaid. The worker alleges he typically worked more than 70 hours a week with no overtime pay and that his employers is in violation of...
In corporate America, the basic business model says the cream is at the top and the dredges are at the bottom. Wal-Mart boasts of rolling back prices to bring economic relief to its consumers. But something is wrong with this picture. One suggestion is that the vast...
As of January 1, 2015, a new federal law will go into effect extending minimum wage and overtime pay to domestic workers. The law will provide major benefits in care for the elderly and for disabled Americans, who will now fall under the purview of the Fair Labor...
