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FLSA

Arlington firm owes $53K in overtime wages

10/05/2012
Arlington-based Espitia Cleaning Inc. agreed to pay $53,095 in back wages to 130 current and former janitors following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.

FLSA violations cost Houston restaurant $126,000

10/05/2012
Houston’s Ocean Palace Restaurant settled a “palace revolt” of sorts by paying the princely sum of $125,763 in back wages to 61 current and former kitchen and wait staff, cashiers, hostesses, runners, cart pushers, busboys and dishwashers.

Reality–not labels–determines worker status

10/05/2012
Under the FLSA, it’s not the job title or even some understanding between the employer and worker that matters, but business reality. If an employer controls how the job is done, chances are the worker is an employee covered by the FLSA and not an independent contractor.

Health care firm faces possible FLSA class action

10/02/2012
A lawsuit against home health care and hospice provider Amedisys seeks national class action status and challenges the way the company pays its visiting nurses and home health care aides. The company operates in 41 states, including North Carolina.

No class action in lawsuit against trucking company

10/02/2012
Chalk up a win for employers that fear huge class-action lawsuits. A North Carolina judge has decertified a class action against CEVA Freight, a freight hauler. The suit had alleged the company was underpaying some 2,000 drivers across the nation.

Is there an hourly threshold employees must pass to earn paid holidays?

09/26/2012

Q. Is there a law that states the number of hours necessary to be considered full time for being eligible for paid holidays? Our handbook says an employee who works fewer than 40 hours a week is considered part time. An employee who works 34 hours a week wonders if he should be eligible for paid holidays. Our handbook says he’s not. Is that OK?

Must we pay an intern we plan to bring in?

09/26/2012
Q. We plan on hiring a college intern later this year. Will we have to pay him or her?

New law allows for 8/80 health care workweek

09/26/2012
A new law amends the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Law to bring it into line with the FLSA, which requires health care employers to pay overtime only if employees work more than eight hours in a day or 80 hours in a 14-day period.

Cooked books pad Thai restaurants’ earnings

09/21/2012
A U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation has uncovered willful FLSA violations by two Chan Dara Thai restaurants in Los Angeles.

Compliance initiative for L.A., San Francisco restaurants

09/21/2012
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced an enforcement and education initiative focused on the restaurant industries in Los Angeles and San Francisco designed to ensure FLSA compliance.