Labor & Employment Law

Mortgage Loan Officers File Suit for Unpaid Overtime
Loan Officers for American Equity Mortgage recently filed a national class action lawsuit alleging that their employer misclassified them as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act, and seeking recovery of unpaid overtime compensation...

Workplace Policies Prohibitng Unauthorized Overtime Are Denied Enforcement: A Boondoggle for Employees
How does an employer control overtime costs and ensure that the employees do not take it upon themselves to work overtime when there is no need for it or, more to the point, it has not been authorized...

California Unpaid Overtime: Employee Stands Up for his Rights
Bakersfield, CA: Stan's employer thought he was exempt because he was paid on commission along with a base salary...

Q&A: Overtime Calculation with Two Different Hourly Rates
Q: My employer pays me at one rate of pay for my regular work, but then pays me minimum wage for travel and attending seminars after-hours...

Pay Overtime - Even When it Violates Policy
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled recently that an employee who works overtime must be paid for those hours even though he/she may have been prohibited from working overtime...

IT Overtime: “We’re treated like Serf Laborers”
Dallas, TX:Information technology (IT) worker Jamie Wells is classified as exempt and therefore is not entitled to overtime...

Bausch Lomb Renu Moistureloc Linked to Eye Infection Fusarium Keratiti
Contact Lens Solution Product Recall

Discouraging Union Organizers
Strict work place rules

Employee Lawsuits (An Introduction and Topic Overview)
How employers can cope with the siege of employee lawsuits

Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
Employers must check references, criminal records, other background material.

Paxil Lawsuit
Paxil Claims, Lawsuits, and Injuries

Bausch Lomb Renu Moistureloc Recall
Contact Lens Solution Product Recall

The company I worked for forced me to quit instead of dealing with someone harassing me, what can I do?
Look up CONSTRUCTIVE DISCHARGE...................this looks like what happened t...

What is comparative negligence and strict liability in tort law?
A. comparative negligence
B. seller sells to buyer
B. defense of ...

My husband's Grandmother died intestate. She had one sole heir, my husband's Father. He and his wife kept paying taxes on the property.Then he also died intestate. Now, my Mother-in-law wants to sell this property. Accor
Based on my research, his wife would have a 1/3 interest in the property. The ot...

How to cash a cashier's check without ID?
I would get some I.D.! Other than that, maybe you can tell the investigator you ...

Can my employer threaten me with termination if I don't seek a transfer to another department?
In many jurisdictions, employees are "at will". This means that their employmen...

Restaurant Staff
Win Lawsuit Suit Against Employer for Infiltrating their MySpace Forum

Employee Theft
Mother and daughter ordered to pay $1 million settlement for writing false paychecks.

Electronic Data Systems Corp.
allegedly failed to pay employee overtime.

Employment
Employee rights including labor law, harassment, safety, unpaid overtime, discrimination and union disputes.

Security Breach
Check 'N Go to pay $220,000 settlement in personal information lawsuit.

Data Breach
USSearch.com to pay $250,000 settlement in information lawsuit.