Employment Law Tag

Salary Overtime Laws Currently, federal overtime laws prevent salaried employees from receiving overtime pay. This means that as a salary employee, you won’t be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours a week. However, just because you get paid by an annual salary rate does not mean that you are completely exempt from receiving overtime. This article explains in further detail...

Is Mandatory Overtime Legal? Has your employer ever forced you to work overtime? If you’ve been forced to work mandatory overtime, you likely questioned whether or not it’s legal. Although forcing an employee to work overtime isn’t always ethical, your employer can make you work mandatory overtime. There are ways you can avoid overtime, but the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA)...

What Is Overtime Pay? Employees are entitled to overtime pay if they work more than 40 hours in their typical work week. Overtime pay, also referred to as “time and a half,” is an employee’s regular wage plus half that amount. Most employers try to get away with not paying their employees the correct overtime, or will force their employees to work overtime. This article will tell you...

Age discrimination in the workplace is an incredibly common problem for lawyers. From 2010 to 2017, older workers filed over 200,000 age discrimination lawsuits. The fact is, someone’s age doesn’t determine their worth as a worker. Yet, older workers still experience age discrimination in the workplace. There’s a lot of ageist myths about older workers; that they’re hard to...

Ultimately, your employer cannot deny you unemployment benefits. Unemployment is a taxable-based, state program. However, employers can contest unemployment claims, which is why your claim may be denied. Before you receive unemployment benefits, your state’s unemployment agency reviews your application to ensure you qualify for unemployment benefits. These qualifications can vary...