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Amendments enacted by the New York City Council to the City’s “Ban the Box” law known as the Fair Chance Act (FCA) to expand protections already provided to job applicants to include employees and prohibit discrimination based on arrest records, pending criminal accusations, or criminal convictions will take effect on July 29, 2021.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West failed to pay overtime, cover expenses and provide legally mandated breaks to workers cleaning and maintaining her California home, they alleged in a lawsuit.

A home health agency will pay more than $85,000 – including more than $77,000 in restitution to 79 employees – to settle allegations that the company failed to pay the proper overtime rate and failed to pay workers for travel time, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced.

A Long Island construction contractor who directed laborers and masons to work 10-hour days, six days a week, knew the Fair Labor Standards Act required employees to receive overtime pay when they worked more than 40 hours per week, but disregarded the law.

New York prevailing wage law requires contractors to pay construction workers on public construction worksites to pay their workers at hourly rates that are much higher than the minimum wage rates (currently $15 per hour in New York City).

We are pleased to announce that Laura Rodriguez and Vivianna Morales have been selected as Super Lawyers Rising Stars for the New York Metro area for 2021 in the area of Employment Litigation.

The Journal News reported on a wage theft lawsuit filed by Pechman Law Group against Taco Street and Pizza Station in Chappaqua, NY. The restaurants are popular with Former President Bill Clinton, who regularly visits both locales.

Pechman Law Group has filed a wage payment lawsuit against GDB International, Inc. (GDB International), a New Jersey corporation specializing in the processing of recycled materials, for failing to pay minimum wage and overtime pay to warehouse workers at two New Jersey facilities.

The New York City Bar Association will be holding a program on "How to Handle a Prevailing Wage Matter in New York under NYLL Art. 8" on Tuesday, April 13.

A recent investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $2,125,429 in back wages for 456 workers employed by Good Family Support Services Inc., operator of Good Family Support Services, in Philadelphia.