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Syosset Employment Lawyer: Expert Legal Support for Workplace Issues
Syosset Employment Lawyer Navigating workplace challenges can be overwhelming, whether you’re an employee facing unfair treatment or an employer ensuring compliance with complex labor laws. In such situations, having a trusted and experienced Syosset Employment Lawyer by your side is essential. If you’re in Syosset or anywhere on Long Island, Yale Pollack, Esq., provides expert legal guidance tailored to
Subway Restaurant pays punitive damages for terminating an employee during Department of Labor investigation
NPK Foods Inc., the operator of a Subway restaurant franchise in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, fired an employee during an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. This restaurant learned a hard lesson by first failing to properly compensate its employees, and then for retaliating against an employee who partook in the
Is tip pooling a form of wage theft in New York?
Wage theft is a serious issue that largely affects hourly workers. Those who depend on tips or customer gratuities are often very vulnerable to wage theft. Employers denying them overtime wages or the hourly pay that they deserve could create real financial hardship. There are many different types of wage theft that occur. Companies can
Second Circuit Resolves Liquidated Damages Under the FLSA and NYLL
On April 6, 2018, in the case of Rana v. Islam, Case No. 16-CV-3966, the Second Circuit resolved a split in the circuits over whether liquidated damages for unpaid wages are recoverable under both the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and New York Labor Law (NYLL). This resolved a split among district courts within the
Second Circuit Relaxes The Pleading Standard For FLSA Actions
Retail employees at a luxury store in New York City were deemed by the Second Circuit to have adequately stated a wage claim when they said they regularly worked more than 40 hours per week without specifying the exact weeks in which they worked overtime. The case is Herrera v. Comme des Garçons Ltd., 2d Cir.,
2 ways employers may try to hide age discrimination
As an employee, you know that you shouldn’t be discriminated against because you’re over 40 years old. There are laws in place to prevent age discrimination against older workers in the United States. This doesn’t mean that companies must hire older workers, but they do need to give them a fair chance to get and keep their jobs, advance
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