Employment Law - Civil Rights - Housing Law
The major Federal employment statues also protect employees from being retaliated against for asserting their rights under those laws. The Federal law that requires that employers pay minimum and overtime wages (the Fair Labor Standards Act) provides that an employer can’t retaliate if an employee “has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be [...]
Below is information in Russian for employees of Project OHR, relating to the pending lawsuit Severin v. Project OHR, case no. 10CV09696 in the Southern District of New York. An English translation follows.
ВНИМАНИЮ ВСЕХ НЫНЕШНИХ И БЫВШИХ СОТРУДНИКОВ КОМПАНИИ PROJECT OHR
Если Вы работали в компании Project OHR в качестве социального работника [...]
Beranbaum Menken LLP has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a former Project OHR home attendant for minimum wage and overtime violations. Among other things, we allege that Project OHR’s policy of paying a flat rate (usually $18) for working overnight, rather than the minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, violates the law. Attorneys at [...]
BMBB recently filed suit against “celebrity baker” Cake Man Raven in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The suit is to recover unpaid overtime wages for the bakery employees. Under Federal and New York law, nonsupervisory workers are entitled to time and a half for all hours worked in excess [...]