FLSA

If you are a certified nursing assistant, you are used to the strenuous hours and often brutal working conditions that come with working in the healthcare field. If you work for a hospital or nursing facility taking care of patients, are you sure your employer is taking care of you?

The Fair Labor Standards Act has a specific exemption for “computer employees”, but this doesn’t mean you aren’t being cheated out of hard-earned overtime wages. Thousands of employers have misused their employees’ exemption. Find out if your rights to this money has been violated by reading below.

There have been an influx of delivery drivers and couriers in recent years, especially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these hardworking people have been cheated out of their hard-earned pay because their employer misclassified them. Unfortunately, many of these workers don’t know the difference.

Loan officers, loan processors, residential loan appraisers, underwriters, and more are routinely being cheated out of overtime pay. The rules and laws on this have recently changed. Learn more about filing an unpaid overtime lawsuit by contacting the FLSA lawyers at Johnson//Becker.

Some hospitals take advantage of their employees by requiring them to work extra hours while not paying them overtime. This problem effects doctors, nurses, cafeteria staff, billing departments, housekeepers, janitors and more. If you feel that the hospital you work at has cheated you out of your rightful pay, you may be entitled to significant financial compensation by filing an unpaid overtime lawsuit and the FLSA lawyers at Johnson//Becker can help.

Independent contractors are often left in the gray area of employee misclassification. Both large and small companies have participated in labeling employees as independent contractors when really, they were an employee. Learn more about your legal rights in pursuing an independent contractor misclassification lawsuit. The lawyers at Johnson//Becker have substantial experience in this complex field of FLSA litigation. Learn more below.

Yet another call center is in hot water after an Arizona man filed a lawsuit against his employer for denying federal and state overtime wages.

Living on low wages is a struggle millions of Americans contend with. The possibility of going to school, supporting a family, or pursuing your dreams gets narrower when every paycheck goes straight to rent, utilities, …

Licensed practical nurses across the country are responsible for taking care of your health, so don’t they deserve fair and just compensation? Every nurse, regardless of their official title, is valuable. Yet some of them are cheated out of overtime pay by hospitals, physicians, or nursing homes. These violations of the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) will not go unnoticed by us.

Call centers have changed the way the American public communicates with various industries since the 1960s. Large corporations rely on call centers to handle orders, customer service, product and technical support, and almost anything that can be done over the phone.

Yet, with these practices in place to help the company increase revenue, the success has had little impact on call centers. The very workers who make it possible are often cheated out appropriate wages, overtime, and/or subject to other Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations.