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A Manhattan Appeals Court reversed the dismissal of a sexual harassment claim under the New York City Human Rights Law, leaving it to a jury to decide whether the employee was “treated less well than other employees because of her gender.”

Uber has reached a $10 million settlement agreement with 420 females and minority engineers in a discrimination lawsuit that alleged the company’s policies, patterns, and practices, resulted in female engineers receiving less compensation and in being promoted less frequently than their male counterparts.

Pechman Law Group obtained a settlement of $975,000 on behalf of 33 servers and bussers at Serendipity 3, an iconic NYC restaurant and ice cream parlor, for tip credit violations. This case was reported on by The New York Post and Bloomberg BNA.

A former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader filed a class action lawsuit alleging that the Dallas Cowboys failed to pay her proper minimum and overtime wages, as well as wages equal to those of the team’s mascot, Rowdy, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Equal Pay Act.

Coloscapes Concrete Inc. has paid $59K in back wages, overtime pay, and civil money penalties to settle H-2B non-immigrant visa program violations, as well as overtime and recordkeeping violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Not even the President can escape paying employees overtime wages. Donald Trump'spersonal driver of over 25 years has filed a lawsuit against two of the President’s corporations for failing to pay him overtime wages

Magistrate Judge Reyes handed a long-awaited victory to two former kitchen workers of Gulluoglu Baklava Cafe. Pechman Law Group, which represented the workers, argued that Gulluoglu was required to pay the workers an hourly wage under the FLSA and NYLL.

FDR signed the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) into law on June 25, 1938. Eighty years later, the FLSA still serves as an effective tool for combating wage theft across all types of industries and jobs. According to the United States Department of Labor, over 21,500 FLSA cases were filed in court last year. The top ten FLSA violations are as follows:

A U.S. Department of Labor investigation found that Endemol Latino NA, a TV production company in Miami, owes $70,341 in back wages to 82 employees for violating overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Care at Home LLC, a Connecticut home care agency, to recover unpaid overtime wages, and liquidated damages, for 51 current and former employees.