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A news article has just been released noting that the Middle District of Tennessee has accepted two settlements for wage theft on March 9, 2021 for about $1mil between the two of lawsuits. The unpaid wage lawsuits involved M Street and Strategic Hospitality and the plaintiff classes were comprised of waitstaff and bartenders primarily. The […]
xposted from www.lawonyourschedule.com Autoworkers may be exempt from FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act) overtime pay requirements. The FLSA is the law that requires companies to pay you minimum wage and also to pay certain employees overtime. These cases are frequently brought by lawyers to enforce minimum wage and overtime laws as the statute gives the […]
When I was working in government, it was very common to receive additional vacation time or sick leave for salaried employees who had to work excessive hours on projects. Professionals such as lawyers are exempt from the overtime laws. However, sometimes employers bleed this method of pay onto non-exempt employees inappropriately. Giving hourly workers time […]
When people talk about overtime, what do they mean? In Tennessee, overtime is any work performed by a worker for an employer in excess of forty hours per week. Some states, like California, have provisions where it is on a day to day basis, but not Tennessee. So even if you work 20 hours a […]
Many FLSA claims revolve around “pre-shift work” which is what we call the time people spend working before they get to go on the clock and be paid. Pre-shift work can come in many forms. For example, people who work in the restaurant industry are frequently required to be at work 15 minutes early to […]