Employment disputes

Class Actions

 

When your employer’s decision or policy injures you and others like you, you may be able to assert your legal rights as a group. I recently helped a group of carpenters recover more than $200,000.00 in a suit against their employer.

Wage & hour

 

Your time is valuable, and you should be compensated when you work. I have fought to recover unpaid compensation for individuals in the retail, hospitality, construction and other industries.

Overtime

 

One widespread misconception is that salaried employees are not owed overtime. In fact, most employees—hourly or salaried—are owed overtime pay if they work more than forty hours in a week. If you work more than forty hours a week and are not paid more for your extra time, your employer may be taking advantage of you.

Retaliation

 

The law often prohibits an employer from firing or demoting you, changing your job responsibilities or benefits, or otherwise making your work more difficult because you take family or medical leave, raise concerns about discrimination or safety issues, or ask for proper wages. If your employer does, you may have a claim for retaliation.

Misclassification and independent contractors

 

Independent contractors, if properly classified, are not entitled to many of the legal benefits and protections that employees receive. Generally speaking, classifying a worker as an independent contractor makes that work cheaper for an employer. Employers sometimes misclassify workers they control as independent contractors to reduce their cost, and the misclassified worker pays the price. If you’re classified as an independent contractor but controlled by your employer as if an employee, you may be misclassified and entitled to wages, benefits, and overtime pay.

sample casework

In a class action raising franchisee-misclassification claims against a multinational tool franchisor, led litigation in Sixth Circuit.

 

Represented multiple employees in FMLA, OSHA, DOD, and other lawsuits claiming anti-retaliation violations.

Represented classes of non-emergency medical transportation drivers in misclassification and overtime litigations.

 

Litigated employee-misclassification issues in case against a national home care franchisor.