WASHINGTON D.C — If you spend several minutes at your computer waiting for software to load on your computer, you are probably owed overtime pay by your employer. These ten to fifteen minutes per day add up to hours a month and most employees are entitled to receive overtime pay for the additional time spent […]
WASHINGTON D.C — Call center employees and operators are often required to start dialer software on their computer when they arrive to start their work day. This software often loads very slowly or crashes a number of times before it is ready for use. During this time waiting for the software to load, the employee […]
WASHINGTON D.C. — A former Subway restaurant employee in the District of Columbia filed a putative collective action lawsuit against one of the sandwich chain’s franchisees. The former employee claims the company maintained a practice of denying minimum wage and overtime pay, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and District of Columbia […]
WASHINGTON D.C. — It appears that the federal government’s partial shutdown last October caused government employers to violate the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Employees working at federal prisons during last October’s government shutdown received a favorable ruling from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in their putative class action recently. The U.S. Court of […]
WASHINGTON D.C. — The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear warehouse employees’ overtime lawsuit against Amazon for unpaid time spent in security screening lines. As a result, the other class action overtime pay claims currently against Amazon for the same practice are on hold, or have been stayed, with the exception of one […]
WASHINGTON D.C. — Our Washington D.C. 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 […]