Labor laws have recently been changing, as announced by Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia in early August of 2023. The changes are an update to the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931. This act requires that the government has to pay “prevailing local wages” when...
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Retail or inside sales professionals may not qualify for overtime
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a federal law that protects workers nationwide from abusive payroll practices. The FLSA establishes, among other things, minimum wage requirements and overtime pay rights. The FLSA requires that workers who are paid on an hourly...
What do workers need to know about the 8 and 80 overtime rule?
People often talk about overtime rules as though they are simple, but the average person may not understand the intricacies of federal laws that entitle workers to overtime pay. For example, some people think they are exempt employees because they receive a salary,...
Can you recover back wages for off-the-clock work?
As a general rule, “time worked is time paid…”[1] Requiring employees to perform work off-the-clock, without getting paid for it violates state and federal wage and hour laws. Some common instances of this practice occur when an employer requires someone to wait for...
Concerns about independent contractor misclassification
Working full-time often means working eight hours a day from nine in the morning to five in the evening, five days a week. Yet, many full-time workers struggle to put food on the table, let alone pay rent. Over the last several years more and more people have been...
No-Fault Attendance Policies May Violate Employees’ Rights
Some companies have implemented so-called “no-fault” attendance policies that utilize a point system in order to monitor the attendance of their employees. The aim of such attendance policies is to discourage absenteeism and tardiness. However, no-fault attendance...