The food industry, especially restaurants with tight margins, are notorious for violating the FLSA and other wage and hour laws. You would think that since these companies only have to pay their wait staff $2.13 an hour that they wouldn’t care as much about someone hitting overtime but that is not the case. Waiters and […]
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 […]