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The Truth
Top Ten Reasons for FLSA Lawsuits:
- FLSA favors employees through lower proof thresholds, statutory damages, and attorneys’ fees
- Employers’ misclassification of employees as exempt employees
- Employers’ missclassification of employees as independent contractors
- Employers’ failure to pay employees working off the clock
- Employers’ docking time for employees working on the clock
- Employers’ failure to pay employees who work through lunch
- Employers’ failure to pay employees for short breaks
- Employers’ failure to include extra compensation in overtime pay
- Employers’ failure to compensate employees who “volunteer” their time
- Employers’ failure to compensate employees for training time
The Consequence
- Renegade Truck Accessories, Leander, TX, paid $21,612 in back wages
- Monarch Contracting and Design, West Jordan, UT, $60,865
- Summer Rain Sprinkler Systems, Cos Cob, CT, $255,521
- AEC Civil Engineering, Norcross, GA, $574,486
- Pima County Development Services, Tucson, AZ, $337,251
- Allen Memorial Hospital, Waterloo, IA, $19,091
- Bora Bora Beach Hotel, Miami, FL, $7,829
- The Upper Crust Pizza Chain, Boston, MA, $341,500
- The Kennedy Law Firm, Clarksville, TN, $3,732