Hot Topic: Wages for Waiting
Employees must be paid for work they perform. It seems pretty simple, but in employment law there are always complicated situations and circumstances that cannot be decided by bright-line [...]
Q&A: Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation
By far the most common questions our firm receives involve discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Many people believe that discrimination, harassment and retaliation in the workplace are simply and wholly [...]
Updates: Intern and Cheerleader Wage Lawsuits
As we have discussed in previous posts, two of the biggest trends in employment law these days are FLSA lawsuits for minimum wage and overtime filed by cheerleaders and interns. [...]
Classifying Drivers
Well-established business, like FedEx, and newcomers, like Uber and Lyft—both start-up companies that allow customers to hail a car from their phones instead of hoping to find a cab or [...]
Need to Know: Tips and Service Charges
Under New York Law (NYLL § 196-d), employers are not allowed to keep any portion of employees’ tips, except for credit card charges, which are typically an extremely small [...]
Hot Topic: Sweeping Overtime Changes
Last year President Obama ordered the United States Department of Labor to update overtime regulations. These regulations are hugely important, as they 1) set salary threshold for overtime, meaning [...]
Quick Hits: Employment Law from Coast to Coast
This has been an eventful summer for employment and labor laws and workers both at home and beyond our walls. At Pelton Graham, we’re hearing about all kinds of [...]
Hot Topic: White House Employment Agenda
As President Obama digs into his second term, it’s become clear that overhauling federal employment law is a top priority of this administration. From wages to discrimination and family friendly [...]
Quick Hits: Good News for Workers Across the Country
There’s no doubt that employment law can be a challenging field, whether it’s the insidious expansion of employers’ powers to impose coercive arbitration provisions upon employees or the ever-increasing [...]
New Cases: What We’ve Seen Lately
At Pelton Graham we’ve had a busy spring so far, and we have several new cases to show for it! This is just a sampling of the wide range of [...]