Employment Law

Inflation and the constant pressure from shareholders to produce profits have forced many businesses to get creative about cost-cutting. Frequently, the workers helping run the company are the focus of cost-cutting measures. Businesses often seek to reduce staffing...

One way that employers can accomplish this important aim is by ensuring that employees can file complaints effectively when they’re being subjected to harassment, discrimination or illegal practices in the workplace. This can only be done if there’s a policy firmly in...

Both employees and those running businesses sometimes fall victim to a cognitive trap when considering workplace discrimination. Specifically, it is quite common for people to assume that discrimination is usually overt and intense. They picture a supervisor making...

Workers in a variety of different circumstances may take legal action against their employers. Wage and hour claims are among the top causes of employment litigation. When workers believe that companies have violated their pay rights, they can take the matter to court...

Companies and the employees that work for them often have competing interests. Individuals want to earn a decent living and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Companies want staffing on demand and usually try to keep their operating expenses as low as possible....

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....

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...

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...

Discrimination in the workplace is a serious issue that impacts employees across various sectors. It occurs when an individual or group is mistreated based on specific characteristics such as race, gender, age, religion or sexual orientation. Discrimination can occur...

Wage and hour regulations understandably confuse many people. They may conflate rules that apply at the federal level with state-level rules or may hear misinformation from coworkers or managers that prevent them from making full use of their rights. Sometimes,...