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How Two Waiters Whose Complaints Were Ignored By Their Employer Won a Massachusetts Class Action Tips Case Restaurants or banquet halls taking tips or charging house fees or service fees without telling the customer they don't go to the server is against MA Wage Law -
A Traveling Healthcare Worker: Should You Be Paid For Driving To Patients' Homes? Home home aides (HHA) and PCAs must be paid for travel time between patients. Time spent driving to homes or jobsites in workday is supposed to be on the clock. -
Massachusetts Homeowners Have Legal Rights to Challenge and Correct Wells Fargo's Forced Forbearance Homeowners Have Legal Claims Against Wells Fargo for Being Placed Into Forbearance Without Permission Which Damaged Their Credit and Ability to Refinance -
Big Violations Cost Big Money! Big Lots, Inc. Settles For $7 Million In Wage And Hour Case Employees can sue if their breaks were interrupted or they got no lunch breaks at all. Workers must be paid for all time they are required to be onsite. -
Potential Claims Resulting From COVID-19 - Part III: Taking on Gigs vs. Being an Employee During the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis, employers may illegally classify employees as 1099 "gig" contractors. Compare an employee to 1099 worker: what are you? -
Potential Claims Resulting From COVID-19 Part II: Working Remote Does Not Equal Being On Call 24/7 Working remotely from home during the COVID-19 crisis does not mean you are available 24/7. And you need to be compensated for all of the time you put in. -
WORK FOR FREE or GO TO PRISON - Exposing the Free Labor System Endorsed by the Courts Drug and alcohol recovery programs used as way to con addicts into providing free labor with no workplace protections or rights instead of going to prison. -
Even In A Pandemic, You Still Have To Pay Your Employees - The Hair Cuttery Case. Wage attorney near New Bedford MA discusses how during the COVID coronavirus pandemic, employers are still required to pay employees their earned wages on time. -
Getting Paid for Facing Danger: Hazard Pay Introduced to Janitors, Grocery Store Clerks & Others Discussion of hazard pay being introduced in MA in the face of COVID-19/coronavirus like who benefits from The Heroes Fund, healthcare workers and rollout plan -
How Wages Are Calculated for Tipped Workers in Massachusetts The way wages are calculated for tipped workers in Massachusetts has changed. Learn about the new law and what to do if your employer violated it.