The Fair Labor Standards Act provides certain protections to workers in New York, including the establishment of a minimum wage and overtime pay rules. Some salespeople who work on commission are paid draws on their future commissions in weeks in which they do not...
New York enacted a law that requires the minimum wage to increase every year until it reaches $15 an hour. The increase is triggered at the end of the calendar year.With the annual increases, it is important to stay on top of your pay every year and make sure your...
New Yorkers are protected under state and federal laws while they are working. Among these laws is a provision that they must be paid for all breaks that last 20 minutes or less. In a recent case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, an employer was...
New York residents may heard stories about gender discrimination against female employees in the tech sector. In a lawsuit filed on Aug. 28, three former Oracle employees claimed that the company paid women less than men for performing similar duties. The suit claims...
New York employees who work at startups or businesses that focus on information and technology may be interested to learn that three female ex-employees filed a lawsuit on Sept. 14 against Google alleging that it engaged in gender-based wage discrimination. The...
As a general rule, most New York employees cannot be asked to work "off the clock".Furthermore, workers generally cannot be asked to work without being paid or to work hours that do not count toward overtime pay. According to the Fair Labor Standards Act, non-exempt...
Marijana represents employees in both individual and class actions involving wage-and-hour, discrimination , harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination claims. She is fluent in Spanish and Croatian. Marijana has represented employees across many industries,...
A basic principle of the American economy is that every employee is entitled to fair pay for their work. So what happens when you bust your hump working overtime, but your boss won't pay you for it? A violation of the law, that's what. You're entitled to get paid for...
At some point, New York employees might learn that they are being paid less than another employee who has less seniority than they do. There are a number of reasons this might be the case and several approaches that employers might take if an employee makes a...
In 2012, service advisers working at a California Mercedes-Benz dealership sued their employer for being wrongly classified as being exempt from overtime pay. The employees' case was dismissed in 2013 by the district court. Following an appeal by the employees, the...
