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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Home Health Aides who are not paid travel time and mileage can hire an attorney to bring a wage claim and receive up to three times their unpaid travel time and mileage. The Massachusetts Wage Act requires employers to pay HHAs both travel time and mileage. It is a Wage Act violation not to pay HHAs travel time and mileage. -
Are you an HHA who travels every day for patient visits? Does your paystub look like this? This article provides a break down of travel time pay and travel expenses that employers must compensate qualifying employees for. -
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. -
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. -
Potential Claims Resulting From Covid-19: PART 1: Delay in the Payment of Wages 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. -
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. -
BEING IN DEBT TO THE BOSS: Can your boss legally make you pay for mistakes he claims 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.