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Farm employers in the United States have been required to pay $76 million in back wages to 154,000 workers over the past 20 years according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute.

Pechman Law Group is pleased to announce Gianfranco Cuadra’s promotion to partner at Pechman Law Group PLLC.

Pinterest will pay $22.5 million to settle a lawsuit from its former chief operating officer, Françoise Brougher, who alleged gender discrimination and retaliation in pay and treatment.

A Long Island, New York gas station owner has been arrested for exploiting workers and threatening to retaliate against immigrant employees to deter them from reporting the alleged labor violations to authorities.

KVK-Tech, a Pennsylvania-based pharmaceutical company, has paid $475,000 to 33 workers it hired to construct its four-building campus in Newtown, Pennsylvania, in settlement of a federal court overtime lawsuit.

After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor, Miami, Florida-based dialysis service companies – Olympus Healthcare Inc., Apollo Renal Center LLC, and Americare Renal Center LLC – will pay $110,819 in back wages to 34 employees for violating overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Most people do not realize that domestic workers, such as housekeepers and nannies, are entitled to overtime pay. As employment lawyers, we regularly represent housekeepers and nannies who often work over 60 hours per week, yet are paid a fixed salary each week.

Pechman Law Group PLLC has filed a discrimination and equal pay lawsuit against the New York Racing Association. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Luis Grandison, a Black Latino man, who is the first ever full-time Spanish language horse racing announcer in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a $3,000,000 judgment against Stratis Construction Inc., a residential drywall company based in Phoenix, Arizona, for violating overtime and recordkeeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Burlington Coat Factory has agreed to pay nearly $20 million to end two lawsuits brought by assistant store managers who say they were misclassified as exempt employees and were not paid overtime wages they were owed.