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Essential Workers Have the Right to Protest Unsafe Conditions In the midst of the pandemic, we rely on essential workers—healthcare professionals, sanitation workers, grocery store employees, long-haul truckers, transportation employees, warehouse and mail delivery workers, and more—to keep our society afloat. But many of the workers deemed most essential to […]
The PAWPCL Protects Your Rights Getting fired is stressful enough. But what happens if your employer fires you—and then never sends your last paycheck, or withholds your severance pay? It’s not supposed to happen, but it does. And when it happens in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law […]
The Minimum Salary for Exempt Employees Went up as of January 1, 2020 In September 2019, the Department of Labor announced it was raising the minimum salary level for exempt employees—making more people non-exempt, and thus eligible for FLSA protections: specifically, overtime pay. The old threshold was $455 a week […]
It’s More Common Than You’d Think The Fair Labor Standards Act dictates that non-exempt workers are entitled to make minimum wage, plus overtime for more than 40 hours worked in a week. There are clear definitions of what constitutes “work”—and how employers should calculate each worker’s pay. Even so, wage […]
If You’re Non-Exempt, It’s Probably Illegal Your boss keeps you late on the job—or asks you to work during your lunch break. You agree, expecting a nice bump in your paycheck. But when you get paid, it’s the same amount as always. What’s going on? If you’re a non-exempt employee, […]