On October 26, 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a settlement with Hilton Reservations Worldwide, LLC, in which the company agreed to pay $715,507 in minimum wages and overtime pay to 2,645 current and former customer service employees in Texas, Florida, Illinois and Pennsylvania. The DOL determined that the
The New Jersey state legislature recently proposed a bill that would increase the state minimum wage to $8.50/hour effective July 1, 2012. This would make New Jersey’s minimum wage the third highest in the country (Washington and Oregon are higher). Although the bill is likely to pass the NJ State
OVERTIME VIOLATIONS Unless you are specifically classified as an “exempt” worker, your employer must pay you overtime wages for any hours you work over 40 hours in a workweek (see this prior blog entry). Your employer must pay overtime wages at a rate of at least one and one-half times
Both the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and the New York Minimum Wage Act (“NYMA”) generally require the payment of overtime wages for work performed after 40 hours per week. For some general information on overtime and misclassification issues, please see our prior blog posts here, here and here. The
Most employees are entitled to receive one and a half (1½) times their regular hourly rate of pay for work performed in excess of forty hours per week. All time worked must be counted in calculating overtime including, all work activities and activities before and after a shift, as well
On June 18, 2012, the United States Supreme Court resolved a split between circuit courts and held that pharmaceutical sales reps engage in “sales” and therefore are exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Under the FLSA, “outside salespersons” are exempt from minimum wage and overtime. The issue for
Most employees are entitled to receive one and a half (1½) times their regular hourly rate of pay for work performed in excess of forty hours per week. All time worked must be counted in calculating overtime including, all work activities and activities before and after a shift, as well
In general, an employee’s “hours worked” include all time an employee must be on duty, or on the employer’s premises or at any other prescribed place of work. All employees must be paid for all time worked. So if your employer is forcing you to work off the clock, you
It’s 2020, Do You Know Where Your Minimum Wage Rates Are in New York? In a continuation of New York’s gradual march toward a statewide $15.00 per hour minimum wage rate, effective December 31, 2019, employers throughout New York State and New York City may need to increase the minimum
You can’t possibly know every single employment law out there. But if you can read about the six outlined below, you should have a good sense of what your rights are as an employee in the workplace. Questions? Please call or e-mail us any time.
