Wage & Hour Laws

You work at a bar or a restaurant, where you and the rest of the waitstaff have a manager who directs you on a daily basis. You’re paid hourly and you get tips, while your manager is on a salary and is never directly given tips since they don’t serve tables.  Your...

Whether you work a standard business day and have evenings and weekends off or work rotating, longer shifts in a high-demand field like medicine, making an hourly wage means that you only get paid for the time that you work. Unlike salaried workers, you cannot count...

Constant communication is a great thing when it is with your family or other people who bring you happiness and support. When it comes to your job, however, digital technology can put you in an unfair position. If your employer gives you a company cellphone or control...

Federal employment laws create basic standards for worker rights, including the right to a fair minimum wage, the right to overtime pay and the right to a safe work environment. Sadly, federal employment laws don't receive frequent updates, which means that policies...

For business owners, all that matters -- in many cases -- is their bottom line. They’re just trying to make as much as possible and keep expenses as far down as possible. They may talk about other goals -- reaching the community, expanding their business, meeting...

You typically do not work weekends, but just work from 9 to 5, Monday through Friday. You get an hourly wage and put in exactly 40 hours every week. If your boss tells you to come in on Saturday and work a weekend shift, do you get a higher pay rate?  Naturally, you...

Many employees in the San Diego area are affected by the mandatory overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In our last post, we discussed exemptions from these requirements that apply to executive and managerial personnel. This post will continue the...

The federal Fair Labor Standards Act provides many protections for workers in San Diego. Understanding these protections can be an important way of ensuring fair and lawful treatment by employers. One of the most significant protections in the statute are the minimum...

Most employers in San Diego understand that they must pay employees in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, a federal statute that requires employers to pay overtime for work in excess of 40 hours per week. Unfortunately, many employers attempt to circumvent...

Over the past few decades there have been many efforts to help ensure fair pay between men and women in the workplace. However, a wage and hour dispute isn't usually about any type of pay disparity based on gender; on the contrary, a wage and hour dispute is about...