Blog posts to keep you informed about pay practices
The Texas overtime attorneys at Kennedy Hodges frequently post blog articles relating to overtime laws and wage disputes. To read our most current posts, please visit this page of our website. The Texas payroll dispute lawyers at Kennedy Hodges represent victims of improper pay practices throughout Texas, including San Antonio, El Paso and Fort Worth.
Even classically exempt IT professionals could still be entitled to overtime depending on their job duties. A Texas overtime lawyer explains.
Category: Computer and IT
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If you’re a bookkeeper or clerk who isn’t getting paid for meetings and training sessions, you may be entitled to overtime pay. An overtime attorney explains.
Category: Bookkeepers & Clerks
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An overtime attorney explains why some accountants don’t realize that they are entitled to overtime pay or are too embarrassed to pursue an overtime claim.
Category: Accountants & Auditors
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A Texas wage lawyer talks about three tricky ways employers try to avoid paying retail workers the overtime wages they should have earned.
Category: Retail Store Employees
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Not sure where to find information on protecting your paycheck as a call center worker? Check out these five resources.
Category: Call Center Workers
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If long depositions cause you to work overtime as a paralegal, you are entitled to time and a half. Read on to learn more.
Category: Paralegal
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Concerned that you are not receiving the overtime pay you have earned as an oil and gas worker? So are we. Read on to learn what to do about it.
Category: Oil, Gas, Field Workers
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Learn the top questions that every new-hire Houston nurse should ask in order to prevent unpaid overtime and protect their paycheck
Category: Nurses/Healthcare
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Massachusetts wage lawyer highlights nursing organization dedicated to helping nurses. National Nurses Week is May 6 through May 12.
Category: Nurses/Healthcare
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Many restaurant workers are vulnerable to wage abuse. Find out why from a Maryland wage lawyer.
Category: Tipped Employees
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An employer may drag its heels paying commission payments to an employee who properly earned those fees. Make sure you get all the money you are owed.
Category: Sales Representatives
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An employer may try to “fudge” overtime hours to avoid paying a cable installer all the pay to which he is entitled.
Category: Cable Installers
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Employers get creative when avoiding employment laws. Counting workers as both employees and independent contractors is one such way.
Category: Independent Contractors
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Some employment law issues are fuzzy. Knowing when you are “on the clock” shouldn’t be one of them. A Massachusetts wage and hour lawyer explains.
Category: Service Technicians
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An Illinois lawsuit may make employers reassess whether their own off-hour cell phone use policies violate wage and hour laws.
Category: Computer and IT
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Pennsylvania wage attorneys discuss a recent settlement in a Pennsylvania dispute involving the fluctuating work week method of calculating overtime pay.
Category: Other Workers We Help
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Washington wage lawyers explain why simply receiving a new job description doesn’t make you exempt from the federal wage and hour law.
Category: Bookkeepers & Clerks
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Some employers use inadequate timekeeping systems. These employers then alter time records to “correct” them. Overtime wage lawyers explain.
Category: Accountants & Auditors
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The Department of Labor provides information on how the flu and the Fair Labor Standards Act intersect. Read more here from an experienced wage and hour lawyer.
Category: Retail Store Employees
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Employees in the banking industry frequently work “through lunch.” These employees should be paid for this time.
Category: Banking Industry
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A call center employee may get stuck on a call which lasts into the employee’s scheduled lunch break. The employee should be paid for that additional time.
Category: Call Center Workers
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Preposterous, yes: Many law firms fail to comply with wage and hour laws, according to a California wage and hour attorney.
Category: Paralegal
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Some employers in the oil and gas field purposefully misclassify their workers as “exempt” from the federal overtime pay laws. Our law firm fights back.
Category: Oil, Gas, Field Workers
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Employers have all sorts of tricks for getting around overtime laws. Find out about one trick many hospitals use to deny nurses overtime pay.
Category: Nurses/Healthcare
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The Department of Labor recently filed several lawsuits seeking back pay for restaurant workers who were unfairly denied overtime pay.
Category: Tipped Employees
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Even Classically Exempt IT Professionals Could Be Entitled to Overtime