Posts tagged overtime

• Department of Labor States Drug Reps are Entitled to Overtime

  Zev Antell | October 16, 2009 10:48 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Workplace Discrimination
  

  The issue of whether Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives (Drug Reps as they are sometimes called) are entitled to overtime has been bouncing around and dividing the Federal Courts for several...

• Delivery Drivers Win $22.75 Million Overtime Settlement

  Zev Antell | August 28, 2009 6:04 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Workplace Discrimination
  

  According to an August 20th press release, a massive national Uniform provider, Cintas, came to terms recently on an almost $23 million settlement with a class of hundreds delivery drivers to whom...

• Overtime Claims to be Emphasized by Obama Administration

  Harris Butler | April 25, 2009 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Workplace Discrimination
  

  In two recent articles, the Wall Street Journal reports that businesses are fearing a crackdown by the Obama administration on workplace practices. The Department of Labor will hire 150 new...

• Federal Court Determines Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives Are Not "Outside Salesmen"

  Zev Antell | April 02, 2009 6:33 PM | 15 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  On March 30th, a Connecticut Federal court found that the FLSA’s “Outside Salesman” exemption did not apply to Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives. In issuing its ruling the...

• Court Orders Counsel to Send Notice of Right to Participate in Wage and Hour Lawsuit to Time Share Salespeople

  Bill Tucker | April 25, 2008 4:39 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Court Grants Conditional Class Certification of Timeshare Salespeople Seeking Unpaid Overtime and Minimum Wages

• Working "Off The Clock" May Entitle Workers to Overtime Compensation

  Bill Tucker | February 25, 2008 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A recent Department of Labor investigation against a Municipal Sheriff's Department illustrates how requiring employees to perform work-related activities prior to "clocking in" violates the unpaid overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Sheriff's Department required its deputies to attend meetings at the start and end of the workday, but did not include this time in...

• More and More Computer Workers Seeking Overtime Pay(2)

  Bill Tucker | February 21, 2008 11:42 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A significant trend in wage and hour law is the number of Computer and IT workers, particularly those in the service industry, who are filing lawsuits seeking to recover unpaid overtime. Many employers mistakenly regard overtime pay as a benefit available only to "blue collar" workers, and misclassify high-tech employees as exempt from the overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards...

• Mortgage Loan Officers File Suit for Unpaid Overtime

  Bill Tucker | February 15, 2008 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Loan Officers for American Equity Mortgage recently filed a national class action lawsuit alleging that their employer misclassified them as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act, and seeking recovery of unpaid overtime compensation. This lawsuit is part of a growing trend of lawsuits filed by "white collar" workers in the financial, pharmaceutical, computer, IT, service and other industries...

• Lowes Faces Another Unpaid Overtime Lawsuit

  Bill Tucker | February 14, 2008 11:30 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A Texas woman has filed a class action against Lowes Home Center alleging Lowes violated the overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The woman, who was a warehouse employee at a regional distribution center, claims that Lowes owes her unpaid overtime, and did not credit her for time that she performed required work for Lowes before and after her scheduled shift, including...

• Texas Company Pays More Than $1.5 Million in Unpaid Overtime Wages

  Bill Tucker | February 13, 2008 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  McLane Co., Inc., a wholesale distributor of food and grocery products, has agreed to pay $1,559,316 in unpaid overtime wages to 570 current and former employees after the Department of Labor found that the company had misclassified the employees as exempt from the overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The company had erroneously classified the employees, who were "retail...