• posted: Jun. 12, 2023
• Employment Law,  Fair Labor Standards Act,  Uncategorized,  Minimum Wage / Overtime,  Employee Rights

Currently the minimum wage in New York City, Long island and Westchester is $15.00 per hour while it is $14.20 per hour for the remainder of New York State) On May Read More

• posted: Dec. 01, 2015
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Fair Labor Standards Act

On November 10, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tyson Foods v. Bouaphakeo, which involves a group of pork-processing workers in Iowa who claimed the meatpacking giant Read More

• posted: Oct. 23, 2015
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Fair Labor Standards Act

The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that a lower court made a mistake when it decided that Fox Searchlight Pictures violated employment law by having unpaid production Read More

• posted: Jul. 15, 2015
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Fair Labor Standards Act

Female workers file a class-action sexual harassment lawsuit against Ford Recently, thirty-three female workers have joined a class-action lawsuit against Ford Motor Co., claiming that the company failed to take action Read More

• posted: Jul. 15, 2015
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Fair Labor Standards Act,  Employee Rights

State-appointed panel says fast-food restaurants should raise minimum wage to $15 A state-appointed minimum wage panel recently came to the conclusion that the minimum wage for fast-food workers in New York Read More

• posted: Dec. 05, 2013
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Fair Labor Standards Act,  Sexual Harassment
• Fair Labor Standards Act,  New York City Employment Lawyer,  Sexual Harassment

The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and NYLL requires employers to pay overtime to all employees that work more than 40 hours in a 7 day work week, unless the Read More