The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage and overtime pay eligibility for employees in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments. One of the common ways employers violate the FLSA is through the misclassification of employees...
You deserve full compensation for the work you’ve put in. In many jobs, this includes an overtime premium starting with the 41st hour in a given week. However, whether intentionally or not, employers across the country often fail to pay workers what they are owed. If...
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, with US corporate offices are here in Georgia, was the subject of a recent Supreme Court hearing on the subject of unpaid overtime owed to their sale representatives. The sales representatives claimed they were asked to work extra...
In Georgia, certain workers who put in more than 40 hours per week must be paid a minimum hourly wage of $10.88. This figure is one-and-a-half times the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, which is used in lieu of the state minimum wage of $5.15. Overtime wage...