One of the most important things to employees in Houston is how much they get paid. While many of us want to enjoy or work as well, we all need to support ourselves and our families first. Because your paycheck is so vital, it can be extremely frustrating and...
It's that time of year again when college students and some high school students in Texas begin summer internships. Internships are a great way for young people to gain real world experience in the workforce. It helps them pick up skills, strengthen their resumes and...
Here in Houston and throughout the country, non-exempt workers must be paid time-and-a-half their regular rate of pay for any hours worked in excess of 40 in one week. This is governed by the Fair Labor Standards Act, which has been a very important employment law in...
recently won a summary judgment in a federal district court in Galveston, Texas in favor of a residential group home employee. See Boman v. All The Little Things Count, LLC, No. 3:12-CV-00077, April 24, 2013. The Court found that all of...
successfully obtained a judgment from a federal district court in Houston, Texas ordering an employer to pay $155,123.13 in back wages and attorneys' fees to two (2) employees as compensation for their unpaid "sleep time" hours worked...
Wage theft, unfortunately, continues to be a significant problem here in Texas. Wage theft is the occurrence of employers neglecting to pay proper wages to workers. This might be by failing to pay the minimum wage or legal overtime rate. It can also be paying workers...
One of the more common employee rights' violations here in Houston is wage theft. Wage theft occurs in a number of ways, but it frequently involves employers failing to pay minimum wage or shortchanging workers on overtime. According to a recent study, a very...
One of the most common types of wage theft in this country has to do with the misclassification of employees. This means that employees are classified as contractors or exempt so that employers do not have to abide by the minimum wage and overtime rates as mandated by...
Election Day is just around the corner now, but because there has been so much public encouragement about voting early, many people here in Houston may have already voted. For those who have not voted yet, the polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday. Many...
If you are a part of the workforce here in Texas, chances are you are paid by one of three methods. You may receive a salary as an exempt employee, or you may be non-exempt and paid either hourly or by a weekly salary. Employees who are exempt are not paid overtime;...