Wage and Hour

Bush Gottlieb has a growing litigation practice dedicated to the representation of employees in wage and hour claims against their employers, including disputes concerning wages, nonpayment of overtime or preparation time, vacation pay, rest and meal period violations, sick time violations, and failure to abide by local living wage ordinances. This practice is devoted to enforcing local, state and federal laws regulating employee pay, on both an individual and class action basis, and has helped employees recover millions of dollars in unpaid wages and penalties.

Nonexempt employees are entitled to time and a half or double pay for overtime, are entitled to receive timely pay for all hours worked, including time spent working during lunch or other breaks and time spent in necessary preparation for work, and must be reimbursed for all necessary business expenses. Employers regularly illegally misclassify employees as independent contractors, as supervisors or managers, or otherwise inaccurately define them as within overtime-exempt categories as a way to avoid properly paying overtime or gratuities or other compensation due them, to escape payroll taxes and workers compensation obligations, to hoist their business expenses on the misclassified employees, and/or to circumvent their duty to give employees breaks, as required by law. Bush Gottlieb’s wage and hour practice group pierces these common workplace abuses to ensure employees are properly classified and properly compensated in accordance with all applicable laws.

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