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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.

We are pleased to announce that Lou Pechman has been recognized by LawDragon as one of the 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers.

Pechman Law Group PLLC has filed a wage payment lawsuit against BMS Cat, a Texas-based company specializing in disaster recovery, for failing to pay minimum wage and overtime pay to cleaning workers they provided to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.