Sentences with phrase «wage laws often»

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It also demands the passage of laws guaranteeing renters an attorney in housing court, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, more construction projects employing union workers and local residents, more supportive housing for people with HIV, and an end to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «cluster - site» housing — where the city paid landlords $ 3,000 a month to put up homeless families, often in deplorable conditions.

On a more serious note, as intern - advocacy group Internocracy pointed out last year, employers often believe there is a «grey area» around internships and the minimum wage laws that allows them to take on unpaid interns as long as both sides understand it is a voluntary position.

I often refer to wage / hour claims as the most «dangerous» employment law claim a business can face.

As Henderson demonstrates, employment litigation is often incredibly fact - intensive, and if you have a possible minimum wage or overtime claim, you should consider finding counsel that is not only experienced in the law — and its many exceptions — but also able to sort through all the facts implicated in your case.

Depending on the particular facts and on the forum, the monetary awards compensate the victim for: past and future wage loss; general damages (compensation for pain and suffering); specific losses, such as intentional infliction of mental suffering or assault; aggravated damages (in the context of employment law, often relating to the manner in which the employer dismissed the employee); and punitive damages (a monetary award intended to punish the wrong - doer rather than to compensate the victim).

She is often called upon to defend clients in high - stakes wage and hour class actions alleging violations of federal and California wage and hour laws.

I often suspect the most vigorous political lobbyists for higher minimum wage laws work for the automation / kiosks and robotics sectors.

Around the country, the battle commercial brokers often must wage for their commissions has fueled REALTOR ® associations in at least half a dozen states to push legislators to enact commercial broker lien laws.