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NEW YORK, NY– A federal jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, 2,519 EMTs and Paramedics employed by the City of New York, in an action brought pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Nicole Faut’s ambition didn’t come from her years of education – in fact, the inverse is more true: her educational pursuit was a product of the ambition she already held within. Nicole grew up very poor with challenging family circumstances, but that didn’t stop her from becoming the first of her family to graduate from high school.

On Sept. 24, the DOJ finalized a plan to raise the white-collar overtime pay salary threshold from $23,660 to $35,568 going into effect on Jan. 1 2020. A 2004 change updated the job duties workers must perform to be considered exempt and raised the salary threshold to $23,660.

Amazon’s petition to review the Sixth Circuit’s decision that the time the warehouse workers spend undergoing security checks is considered compensable work time was denied on Oct. 6.

MSE attorneys seek to recover unpaid wages for these hardworking people who performed rebuilding in the immediate aftermath of a hurricane. Some​were not paid anything let alone their promised wages.

Managers, assistant managers, supervisors, professionals, or administrators who are exempt from earning overtime pay might be able to earn overtime pay at the start of the new year if they still make less than $35,568 a year.

Greg McGillivary, attorney and managing partner at McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP, was the featured guest for the Labor Relations Information System’s inaugural Premium Podcast, which you can access for free by clicking here.

On July 29, 2019, Metropolitan Transit Authority New York City Transit (MTA NYC Transit) paid $570,771.36 in settlement payments to 412 employees who alleged in a federal lawsuit that MTA NYC Transit failed to pay them the overtime pay required by federal law.

Four thousand air traffic controllers were paid $14,128,000 in back-pay and liquidated damages on April 15, 2019, after judgment was entered against the federal government by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

On June 20, 2019, the Honorable Timothy J. Kelly of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a Final Order in Stephens, et al. v. Famers Restaurant Group, et al. C.A. No. 17-1087, approving the parties’ settlement of Federal Fair Labor Standards Act and State law wage and hour claims.