Working extra hours can be a strain on an employee because it can mean extra stress as well as increased time away from home and family. An incentive that eases the burden for Texas employees is the knowledge that the overtime pay is going to be higher than the...
The Fair Labor Standards Act protects workers by requiring that they receive the proper pay for the number of hours worked. Under this federal law, employees in Texas and elsewhere that work more than 40 hours per week are required to receive overtime pay. Often, a...
The Fair Labor Standards Act is designed to protect employees in Texas and across the country from being underpaid or denied pay for their work. When an employer violates this law, the affected workers are sometimes able to seek recourse. Recently, Vitty's Sports Bar...
When employees are not properly compensated for the time they spend on a job, a serious legal issue can result. Not meeting minimum wage and other violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act can cause workers to face significant setbacks, and if the situation is not...
In an economic landscape that has been devastated throughout "The Great Recession," workers are finding themselves in desperate situations that, as they say, call for desperate measures. As such, one might be willing to accept a position with a lesser compensation or...
Texas employees that do not receive overtime pay may not be alone. A recent article discussing home care workers pointed out that because they are currently considered babysitters rather than caregivers, they are not provided time and a half when they work over 40...
Residents of Texas and elsewhere have likely heard by now about the protests being held by fast food workers across the country. Major fast food chains like McDonald's and Taco Bell are the targets of a wage dispute that has caused their workers to strike in 60 U.S....
Much was promised, but little came through. As a result, 18 migrant farm workers have filed a wage dispute lawsuit against both a strawberry farm and its labor recruiters for having lured them out of Texas and into North Carolina with undelivered promises. The workers...
In what has become a costly and painful situation for a group of former employees of a Texas college, the waiting is entering its second year. In a wage dispute between the college and several former employees, differences in the amounts owed vary by degrees of up to...
It has been said that the more things change, the more they stay the same. This could be an appropriate statement in the case of some employers who are attempting to avoid a misclassification of employees issue by claiming that workers were hired as contract workers....