employee rights

Pennsylvania workers should be aware of being misclassified by their employers. This is a prevalent and harmful act that is done deliberately by employers so that they can reduce costs and shift responsibility. The United States Department of Labor has obtained two...

Pennsylvania workers who believe that their employers have violated their rights sometimes file complaints. When they do, some employers retaliate against them and fire, demote or punish them in another way. Retaliation against employees for asserting their rights is...

Some white collar employees in Pennsylvania may be celebrating the fact that an important Department of Labor overtime change is ready to go into effect. Salaried workers earning at least $23,660 per year were previously considered exempt from being entitled to...

Litigation finance is a practice in which investors fund a lawsuit. If the case is successful, the investors are entitled to receive a certain amount of the award. If the defendants or plaintiffs lose their cases, they do not repay the funding. According to some legal...

In 1998, 24 percent of claims handled by the EEOC were related to workplace retaliation. In 2015, that grew to 45 percent, which made it the most common type of complaint brought to the EEOC. Retaliation is defined as an employer taking a materially adverse action...

The Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to pay non-exempt workers at least the federal hourly minimum wage for their time worked in a workweek. Additionally, they must pay overtime when employees work more than 40 hours. To keep track of all hours employees...

Employers in Pennsylvania and throughout the country could do more to combat harassment in the workplace according to a report released in June 2016 by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The report was compiled by a task force made up of legal experts,...

Some Pennsylvania residents may be aware that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been under scrutiny by the Government Accountability Office due to its treatment of employees and the poor workplace environment. Although the CFPB has made strides in reducing...

Like many other states, Pennsylvania is an at-will state for employment. This means that employees who are working without a contract that states the reasons for which they can be terminated may be fired for any reason at any time. The exception to this rule is that...

Pennsylvania employees will have more chances to receive overtime pay if proposed regulations from the U.S. Department of Labor are enacted. Under those regulations, the salary threshold for exempt employees will be significantly increased. Exempt employees are those...