If you’re a manager or supervisor who earns less than $500 weekly, odds are high that your employer has failed to pay everything it owes you. Having a Title Like”Manager” or “Supervisor” Doesn’t Make You Ineligible for Overtime Pay The… Read More ›
Wage & Hour/Overtime
3 Ways Restaurants & Delivery Services Cheat Tipped Employees
A shocking number of employees who receive tips get cheated by their employers. How? It happens in many ways, but there are three scams often used by employers, especially in the food service and delivery industries. Here they are. #1 … Read More ›
9 Ways Your Boss Might Be Cheating You of Pay
I’ve seen 9 common tricks employers use to reduce employee paychecks to save money. They’re all illegal, and employees victimized by them have powerful rights under the law. Not only can employees recover what they’ve lost… Read More ›
More Women Suing For Paycheck Unfairness. (Average Lifetime Loss Versus Men? $431,000.00.)
Women are still wildly underpaid for doing the same work as men. (Here’s a new 3-question calculator to see how a woman’s pay in your field compares to a typical male in the same field.) That’s the bad news…. Read More ›
Employees Cheated of Wages & Overtime Have Powerful Rights
I hear almost daily from employees whose employers don’t pay them properly, and in most cases it’s a custom and practice of the employer, not a one-time thing. Employees lose lots of income this way. They’ll have you do… Read More ›
Employers Engaging In “IRS Form 1099” Scams Deserve To Be Punished
Some employers cut labor costs by falsely treating employees as independent contractors, issuing them an IRS Form 1099 instead of a W-2. The effect? The boss saves big on taxes and insurance. But the employee pays more in taxes, won’t… Read More ›
Mediation – A Chance To Put The Dispute Behind You
Mediation Is A Relatively Informal Meeting To Discuss Settlement Mediation, which is an assisted kind of negotiation, is one of three or four significant events in your case, and is really the only day set aside specifically to talk about… Read More ›
Protecting Communications With Your Lawyer
Communicating openly and freely with your lawyer, and employees in your lawyer’s office, is one of the keys to success in any legal matter. You must be able to do so so that nothing – even the most sensitive topics… Read More ›
Are You Creating A Record That Might Hurt You?
If you’re going through difficult times on the job, you might be emailing or texting coworkers, friends and family about your situation. You might be posting comments on Facebook, or MySpace or on another site. You might be writing in… Read More ›
Employer Cutting Your Time, Or Asking You To Work Off The Clock?
Does your employer “shave” your time – cut it, edit the time record in the computer to lower your hours worked, or require you to work off the clock? It’s all illegal. Employers MUST pay you for every hour worked…. Read More ›
Jim Garrity, Esq. - Employee Rights Lawyer 