Workplace Injuries

• Drugs Sales Reps Sue for Unpaid Overtime

  Aubrey Ford | March 28, 2007 9:17 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Class action lawsuits filed on behalf of thousands of pharmaceutical sales representatives involve allegations of unpaid overtime against eight major drug companies. The essence of the claims involves demands for overtime compensation for the hours that the drug representatives spend attempting to push the particular pharmaceutical drugs in the doctors' offices. There are more than a dozen...

• U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Overtime Pay Retaliation Claim

  Aubrey Ford | January 25, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  The U.S. Supreme Court this week refused to consider an appeal brought by an IBM employee claiming that he was forced to leave the company in retaliation for his complaint about unpaid overtime. In the case, employee Michael Saville had worked for the company for 32 years before he accepted early retirement in October 1998. Saville filed suit afterwards claiming that he was forced to leave...

• Workers Are Entitled to Unpaid Overtime

  Aubrey Ford | January 14, 2007 2:13 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  The vast majority of employees are entitled to overtime pay at "time and a half" for every hour worked above forty hours in a week. Yet , every day employers violate the federal and state laws enacted to compensate workers for hard work and the inconvenience of longer hours. The state and federal laws (the Fair Labor Standards Act or FLSA) governing overtime pay can be complex and often...