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A federal judge in Kentucky has ruled that a group of exotic dancers qualified as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act. And therefore were entitled to overtime pay and minimum wages.

The New York Labor Law requires “manual workers” to be paid weekly, never later than seven calendar days after the end of the week in which wages were earned. Under this late payment law, most workers in New York cannot be paid on bi-weekly or semi-monthly schedules. In New York, there are currently hundreds of employers who are paying their workers on a bi-weekly basis in violation of this late payment law.

Fast food chain Chipotle Services LLC and Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., violated federal law by subjecting young female employees to egregious and ongoing sexual harassment from October 2019 to June 2020, severe enough to force two employees to leave their jobs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit.

A federal court in New Jersey ordered an electrical and heating, ventilation and air conditioning company based in Union, New Jersey, and its owners, to pay backpay and damages to 89 electricians, electrician helpers and HVAC technicians after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the company deliberately denied overtime.

BMS Cat, a Texas-based company specializing in disaster recovery, and two subcontractors have paid former cleaning workers $129,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that the cleaners were paid sub-minimum wages and denied overtime while working at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

In a case handled by Pechman Law Group, Hillside Hotel in Jamaica, Queens, has paid $30,000 to a former housekeeping employee, to resolve a federal court lawsuit alleging violations of minimum wage and overtime laws, and retaliation during the pandemic.

Prevailing wage law can be difficult to understand even for practitioners experienced in wage-and-hour laws. It is not always clear what the law requires of employers or what rights are available to employees.

In a new memorandum to all field offices released today, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo announced critical policies to ensure that immigrant workers have the protections they need to freely exercise their rights without retaliation under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

Gianfranco Cuadra appeared on Tiempo to discuss a new law that helps protect undocumented immigrants from extortion or coercion.

Our wage theft lawsuit on behalf of workers at a Wayfair warehouse in New Jersey was noted by the Center for Public Integrity in its article “Wage Theft Hits Immigrants - Hard.”