People often don’t seek a lawyer’s advice until they are already in trouble. By following our overtime and unpaid wage blog, however, you can learn about your right to fair wages and stay informed of new and ongoing issues related to overtime pay, minimum wage, independent contractors, and more, before your employer takes advantage of you.
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Southcoast Mass Waiters Win Unpaid Tips Class Action Lawsuit 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 -
MA Home Health Aides (HHAS) Should Be Paid for Travel Time 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. -
Employee class action settlement no breaks no minimum wage 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. -
Working During Coronavirus: Am I a Gig 1099 Contractor? During the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis, employers may illegally classify employees as 1099 "gig" contractors. Compare an employee to 1099 worker: what are you? -
Working During Coronavirus: Remotely Earning Overtime 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. -
Working During Coronavirus: Being Paid Late and Delayed Delay in the payment of wages, even during a pandemic, violates the MA Wage Act. Your employer needs to pay you within 6-7 days of pay period ending. -
No pay, no rights, no choice: Working to stay out of prison 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. -
Deducting money out of your paycheck for a mistake you made Your employer can't take illegal deductions or money out of your paycheck for damage it claims you caused without first resorting to the court process. -
MA Wage and Hour Lawyer Pandemic Pay Help Discrimination 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. -
Pandemic Hazard Pay Introduced to Some Massachusetts Workers 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