The Bill proposes changes that would (among other things) remove existing limits on
unpaid wage claims, make temporary help agencies and their clients jointly liable for unpaid wages, and impose automatic adjustments to minimum wage based on the Consumer Price Index.
- «Further, the Governor will advance legislation to empower the Labor Commissioner to directly enforce all wage liabilities on behalf of workers with
unpaid wage claims.
In addition, under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act «s «limited super-priority» provision, the employee's
unpaid wage claim is put ahead of secured creditors over the current assets of the bankrupt employer's estate.
Not exact matches
Unclaimed Back Wages:
Unpaid Wages (http://webapps.dol.gov/wow/)-- If you think you may be owed back wages from your employer, search the
Wage and Hour Division's (WHD) database of workers for whom they have money waiting to be
claimed.
Settling (while class certification and summary judgment motions were pending) a statewide putative class action filed in San Mateo Superior Court for nuisance value with the named plaintiffs who alleged multiple
wage and hour
claims (
unpaid regular and overtime wages, noncompliant meal and rest periods, untimely payment of final wages, noncompliant itemized
wage statements,
unpaid / forfeited vacation, and violation of PAGA) against a pharmaceutical supply company's call center;
If your employer subjects you to unlawful discrimination, retaliation,
unpaid overtime, or other
unpaid / underpaid
wage claims, our Los Angeles employment law attorneys prepare cases with an eye toward trial.
Examples of successful
Unpaid Overtime and
Wage claims may involve employers who schedule an employee to work many hours one week, but only a few hours the next week to avoid paying the overtime during a two - week cycle; employees working «off - the - clock» time before or after a shift or punching into the clock; misclassifying «salary» employee as opposed to an employee that is entitled to overtime.
Multiple
wage and hour class actions involving
claims of misclassification,
unpaid overtime, violations of the meal and break regulations and violation of vacation accrual laws
Under the current Employment Standards Act, a
claim for
unpaid wages by an employee is limited in two ways: • There is a six - month time limit imposed on most
wage claims (increased to 12 months for repeat violations and
claims for
unpaid vacation pay); and • There is a $ 10,000 cap imposed on the amount an employment standards officer or the Ontario Labour Relations Board can award in a
wage order.
Our Labor and Employment attorneys have represented employers in literally scores of
wage / hour class actions, including
claims involving
unpaid overtime, off - the - clock work, vacation pay, payroll deductions, commission disputes, waiting time penalties and alleged meal and rest period violations.
Based on the plaintiffs» episodic (at best) contacts with Illinois, the Court found that the
Wage Act didn't cover the plaintiffs»
unpaid commission
claims.
Our attorneys have represented employers in scores of
wage and hour class actions, including
claims involving
unpaid overtime, off the clock work, vacation pay, payroll deductions, commission disputes, waiting time penalties and meal and rest period violations.