Blog

Lucky Garden, a restaurant in Central City, Kentucky, will pay $78,562 in back wages and liquidated damages to eight employees after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the employer violated minimum wage and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

The charges against Rakesh Kumar, President of Orba Construction, stem from Kumar’s alleged misrepresentations to the New York City School Construction Authority (SCA) regarding the number of hours worked and wages paid by Orba to employees on New York City public school construction projects.

Pharmacy benefits management company Express Scripts has been hit with overtime lawsuit, which alleges that the company misclassified employees as managers to avoid paying overtime wages, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the New Jersey Wage and Hour Law.

Domestic workers who were formerly employed by members of the ruling Qatari family are suing their ex-employers for allegedly failing to pay overtime wages, a violation of both the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and New York Labor Law.

Five South Jersey gas stations will pay $650,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 29 current and former employees, following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor, that found pay violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Investigations by the U.S. Department of Labor have resulted in the recovery of $5,579,939 in back wages and benefits owed to 993 employees of nine subcontractors that provided power generator operation support for hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico.

Employees who are discriminated against by an “English-only” policy may sue their employers for discrimination.

Experts have estimated that, “as much as $50 billion a year is stolen from workers, much of which workers never report or recover.”

Trevor Lawrence’s running lane to the 2019 NFL Draft is through the laws in New York which prohibit age discrimination in employment.

A former server of Chili’s has filed a charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the restaurant chain for sex discrimination. The server, who is lesbian, claimed that she was denied an opportunity to advance and then forced to leave her job following comments by upper management about her attire.