The Keystone State has recently approved a comprehensive reform of its somewhat antiquated laws and regulations regarding workers whose pay includes tips. Although there are few bold innovations or dramatic changes to [...]
Failure to pay the tipped minimum wage is a part of the $50Billion problem of wage theft. This violation covers everything from minimum wage violations in the hospitality industry to unpaid commissions for sales and [...]
Every significant worker protection law, whether at the federal or state level, protects workers who complain about and witness illegal or unsafe working conditions. Yet, year after year, retaliation remains [...]
Governor Kathy Hochul signed an important modification to the New York state prevailing wage laws on Labor Day, extending the law's coverage to thousands of building services workers. Prevailing wage [...]
The prevailing wage rules require that a special, higher, minimum wage be paid to workers on projects and in jobs that are funded with or benefit from government resources. Many [...]
It seems like a simple enough question. It's an important question, too, mainly because we start getting paid when work starts. That's when your time becomes the bosses'; when they [...]
Laws are enacted and changed by state and local legislatures throughout the year, but they typically go into effect on either January 1 or July 1. From requiring hazard pay [...]
Every significant worker protection law, whether at the federal or state level, protects workers who complain about and witness illegal or unsafe working conditions, yet retaliation remains, year after year, [...]
The hospitality business just doesn't get it, apparently. Despite years of legislation, enforcement by the US Department of Labor, private litigation, class actions, public approbation and shaming of violators - [...]
Today, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) is a behemoth, addressing a wide range of issues in the vast field of “labor.” From its founding in 1913 as an [...]
