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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.”

The Biden administration announced that it would no longer raid workplaces to arrest undocumented workers en masse, putting an end to the Trump-era policy, which it said was used by "exploitative employers to suppress and retaliate against workers' assertion of labor laws."

Five former grillers at celebrity chef and internet sensation Salt Bae’s Nusr-Et steakhouse chain filed a lawsuit alleging that the restaurants cheated them out of overtime wages by misclassifying them as managers.

As the Delta variant of Covid-19 surges and the Food and Drug Administration issues its final approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, more and more companies are mandating that employees get vaccinated.

New York Attorney General Letitia James reached an agreement with airline service company Eulen America for failing to reimburse employees more than half a million dollars for the laundering costs of their required uniforms that was unlawfully deducted from paychecks.

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.