NEW YORK — Increasingly, former unpaid interns are suing their former employers for the wages the interns believe they have earned. Now, the former interns are receiving outside support for their claims. The National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and others, including the Economic Policy Institute and the Writers Guild of America East, have submitted their […]
NEW YORK — Universal Music Group Inc. (UMG), the parent company of Def Jam Recordings and Motown Records, faces a putative collective action in New York federal court. This collective action lawsuit is another in a growing trend of unpaid interns suing their former “employer” for failure to pay minimum wage and overtime. In this […]
ISLIP, N.Y. — A home health care worker filed suit against Utopia Home Care, Inc. in the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York alleging that Utopia failed to pay her the wages she earned in violation of both the Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Minimum Wage Act. Specifically, she […]
BUFFALO — Our Buffalo overtime lawyers file unpaid overtime lawsuits on behalf of workers who are not paid the legally required wages. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), a large number of workers who are entitled to overtime pay never receive the wages owed to them under federal or state law. Many times, the […]
NEW YORK — Arnold Worldwide LLC, a Boston-based advertising agency, faces a putative class action for violating New York State labor laws. The class action claims the ad agency did not pay their interns despite the fact the interns did the same or similar work of regular employees. This claim comes shortly after an unpaid […]
NEW YORK — A New York construction contractor, MDG Design & Construction LLC, has agreed to pay a total of $5 million to construction workers and other laborers. This payment is part of a settlement agreement related to numerous wage violations found during a federal investigation into the construction company’s subcontractors. If these violations are […]