Category: Payment Disputes

  • How to File an Unpaid Wages Claim in Florida and Recover Your Back Pay

    How to File an Unpaid Wages Claim in Florida and Recover Your Back Pay

    Has your employer failed to pay you the wages you’ve earned? If so, under federal and Florida labor laws, you may have the legal right to recover those wages along with liquidated damages designed to penalize your employer for wage violations. In addition, you may also be entitled to court costs and attorney fees.  

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  • 9 Reasons to Hire an Employment Attorney to Recover Your Overtime Pay

    9 Reasons to Hire an Employment Attorney to Recover Your Overtime Pay

    Under federal law, your employer is required to pay you for all hours worked, including a premium for work performed over 40 hours per week, unless you fall into a narrow category of employees “exempt” from the overtime rules. If you worked overtime and were not compensated properly for the work you performed over 40

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  • The Ongoing Debate over the Department of Labor’s Overtime Rule

    The Ongoing Debate over the Department of Labor’s Overtime Rule

    Last year, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed changes to the minimum salary requirements (an increase in the minimum threshold from $455 to $913 a week) which would have resulted in some salaried workers becoming eligible for overtime who had not been previously eligible because they earned a salary over $455 per week. Rather

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  • 5 FLSA Exemptions You Need to Know About

    5 FLSA Exemptions You Need to Know About

    Last May, the Department of Labor issued a Final Rule which made significant changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act, including changes which would result in overtime pay for many employees who were not previously eligible for overtime pay. The changes were supposed to go into effect December 1, 2016. The Department of Labor gave

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  • What You Need to Know About the Overtime Rule Injunction

    What You Need to Know About the Overtime Rule Injunction

    Recently, a federal judge ordered an injunction to halt the implementation of the new regulations on overtime. This could mean changes for you and your employer. On November 22, 2016, Judge Amos L. Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ordered a nationwide injunction that temporarily halted the implementation of

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  • How to File an FLSA Unpaid Overtime Claim in Tampa

    How to File an FLSA Unpaid Overtime Claim in Tampa

    Cases of unpaid wages will very likely rise later this year, after a recent Department of Labor (DOL) rule changed the minimum requirements for overtime exemption. Florida employees — brace yourselves for changes which may mean that you are entitled to overtime pay even if you were previously exempt from the overtime provisions of the

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  • Share Your Wage and Non-Compete Horror Stories with the White House

    Share Your Wage and Non-Compete Horror Stories with the White House

    Now’s your chance to take a bad situation, and turn it into something positive. If you have a wage or non-compete agreement nightmare, the White House has invited you to share your story with the nation. The White House is asking employees to share their non-compete (NCC) and wage collusion horror stories to help develop

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  • A Low Minimum Wage Good For Florida? Hold Up Rick Scott — What’s this all About?

    A Low Minimum Wage Good For Florida? Hold Up Rick Scott — What’s this all About?

    Florida’s governor Rick Scott made an appearance in California last month, where he invited business to migrate to Florida and escape minimum wage hikes. His selling point according to the Miami Herald was as follows, “Why are you paying your workers $10 an hour? Floridians will work dirt cheap!”. Governor of Florida, Rick Scott, traveled

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  • Millions of Americans Now Eligible for Overtime Pay

    Millions of Americans Now Eligible for Overtime Pay

    More hours worked greater economic reward right? The latest action by the Department of Labor (DOL) says, yes, as eligibility for overtime pay is expanding to include millions of U.S. workers who were previously “exempt” from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. This rule will now make more Americans eligible for overtime

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  • Changes to EEOC Reform Act Proposed for Federal Contractors and Private Employees

    Changes to EEOC Reform Act Proposed for Federal Contractors and Private Employees

    Will the EEOC Reform Act protect more employees from wage discrimination? A Senate bill was introduced in March to amend the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Reform Act. The EEOC Reform Act was first introduced in an attempt to collect pay data from employers and reduce the occurrence of wage inequalities and unlawful discrimination. In light

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