Wage and Hour, Tipped Employees, Unpaid Overtime

Overtime Compliance for New York Restaurant Owners: Avoiding Costly Legal Mistakes

Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP on 6/13/2025

Running a restaurant in New York involves managing a fast-paced, labor-intensive business—and keeping up with employment laws can be overwhelming. One of the most common legal pitfalls restaurant owners face is overtime...more

Rates Up, Dude – Surfing the Wave of U.S. Minimum Wage, Tipped, and Exempt Employee Pay Increases that Will Occur on July 1, 2024

Littler on 6/18/2024

While some across the United States are working on their tans, many employers are working on managing their labor budgets so they don’t get burned by increases in minimum pay standards for non-exempt, tipped, and certain...more

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions: Top 7 Wage and Hour Mistakes for Hospitality Employers to Avoid

Fisher Phillips on 1/19/2023

Employers in the hospitality industry have been through it all in recent years – from the devastation of the pandemic to ongoing labor shortages to an impending recession. These challenges and dramatic changes have surely...more

New York Legislature Passes Bill Allowing Liens On Employers For Alleged Wage Claims

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 7/16/2019

A bill aimed at increasing protections for employer “wage theft” by allowing an employer’s current or former employee, or the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL), to place a lien on the employer’s interest in real or...more

Four New U.S. DOL Wage & Hour Opinion Letters

Smith Anderson on 11/15/2018

The federal Department of Labor (DOL) issued four new opinion letters last week that address various compliance requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In the accompanying press release, the DOL said that the...more

A Look Back on Wage and Hour Developments in 2018: Blockbuster Cases, FLSA Amendments, and More

Epstein Becker & Green on 10/2/2018

Arguably, the very first workplace regulation, dating back thousands of years, was one involving wage and hour issues—the mandatory day of rest. While much has changed over the great many years since then, the centrality of...more

Reflections Upon USDOL "Tip Retention" Enforcement

Fisher Phillips on 7/22/2017

We recently wrote about two federal appellate decisions holding that tipped employees for whom no federal Fair Labor Standards Act Section 3(m) "tip credit" has been taken, and to whom all FLSA minimum wages and overtime...more

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