Federal Judge Gardner of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ordered kgb USA, Inc. to pay $1.3 million in minimum wage for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Kgb USA is the world’s biggest provider of directory assistance which hired workers to respond…
One of the most asked questions our firm receives is what is the statute of limitations for overtime claims or how far back can an employee seek unpaid overtime? The answer is that depends on the case. Employees can automatically seek damages for the previous 2 years. However, in some…
As part of the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) continued focus on restaurant employees, a chain of three restaurants in New York have been ordered to pay over $1,000,000 in back wages including minimum wage and overtime. The DOL’s investigators found that the restaurant employees employed as servers and kitchen staff…
After investigation, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced that current and former car wash and detail employees at a Texas car washing and detailing company that provides services to car dealerships would receive almost $230,000 in unpaid minimum wage and overtime pay. The DOL found that the company violated the…
On December 1, 2012, the law firm filed an overtime lawsuit on behalf of mortgage modification processors who were not paid overtime. The complaint alleges that the loan processors were paid a set fee for each stage the file was in as of payday but that they were not compensated…
Recently, a United States federal district court granted employees’ request for conditional certification in an overtime case filed by assistant store managers (“ASM”). The ASM filed an overtime collective action alleging that Burlington Coat Factory failed to pay them overtime wages for the hours they worked over 40 in a…
This year, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) focused on restaurants to determine whether restaurant employees were properly paid. The response was a resounding statement that the restaurant industry is vulnerable for minimum wage and overtime violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). One problem is that restaurant employees do…
The First Republic Bank is paying over $1 million in overtime pay to 392 bank employees who were wrongly classified as exempt from overtime. The employees are a mix of bank administrative and professional employees whose job duties do not meet the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (“FLSA”) exemptions from overtime.…
The federal tipped employee regulations allow restaurants to pay servers and bartenders $2.13 per hour plus tips as long as those tips bump up the worker to at least minimum wage per hour. A question that arises is whether restaurants are permitted to deduct anything from the bartenders or wait…
The area of tip pool litigation is one that has gained a lot of attention over the last few years as restaurant employees learn how they are supposed to be properly paid under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). First, federal regulations allow restaurants to pay their tipped employees as…