Archives by Tag ' Wage & Hour '
Last month, a New York federal court in Saleem v. Corporate Transp. Grp., Ltd., 2014 WL 4626075 held that drivers for a “black car” business were independent contractors, rather than employees, under both the FLSA and New York Labor Law. The drivers claimed that their employer misclassified them as independent contractors, entitling them unpaid overtime […]
In the rapidly growing oil and gas industry, wage and hour violations have become more common as companies seek ways to lower their labor costs. In response, the Wage and Hour division of the Department of Labor (“DOL”) has focused its investigations and enforcement initiatives on oil and gas employers to address one violation in […]
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), there is no black-and-white rule for determining when travel time is compensable—it all depends upon the type of travel and when it occurs. The regulations interpreting the FLSA don’t provide much clarity either, stating that travel “all in a day’s work” must be counted as compensable hours worked. […]
A former employee recently brought a class action lawsuit against Wendy’s for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The lawsuit, filed on behalf of all service technicians, alleges that the technicians routinely reported fewer hours than they actually worked, and seeks compensation for unpaid work hours worked and overtime hours from December 2011 […]
Last week, law firms Barkan Meizlish DeRose Cox, LLP and JTB Law Group, LLC filed a class and collective action against S & E Flag Cars, LLC (“S & E”), a Kentucky limited liability company in the race track operations business. The lawsuit, Perkins et al. v. S & E Flag Cars, LLC et al., was […]
Workers frequently work over 40 hours a week in this rapidly growing industry, sometimes even up to 100 hours per week. With much of the work sub-contracted out to smaller companies, the structure of the oil and gas industry certainly makes it “an industry ripe for noncompliance,” as stated by Dr. David Weil, administrator of […]


