Law360, New York (June 26, 2015, 9:21 PM ET) By Daniel Siegal -- The operators of Florida and Ohio strip club chain Scarlett’s Cabaret have agreed to pay up to $6 million to end a wage-and-hour class action brought by current and former exotic dancers, according to filings made in Florida federal court. Named plaintiffs Adonay Encarnacion, Andrewa Wong, Rachel

By Miriam Rozen, Texas Lawyer Galvin B. Kennedy, founding partner in Kennedy Law Firm in Houston. John Everett A growing number of energy industry workers have turned to the federal courts to seek unpaid overtime claims against employers. Once well compensated, many of the workers lost jobs as oil prices fell. Those events prompted them to revisit their former employers' pay practices

Working in the oil and gas industry often requires working extra hours and putting forth extra effort. Many workers may find themselves putting in workweeks that are well in excess of 40 hours. When this occurs, the worker is often entitled to overtime compensation for the extra time that is worked. Unfortunately, employers sometimes look to find ways to get

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) upholds oil workers’ rights for fair wages and safety, but it does not specifically outline terms of payment, nor specific work hours. This means that employers have the right to distinguish their own rules and regulations pertaining to the definition of “hours worked” when calculating overtime pay. One of the most contested definition distinctions

You began testing wells for this oil company about six months ago. Although your base pay is the best you’ve ever had, lately you’ve been noticing slight miscalculations in your overtime pay. Your first four checks were accurate, but ever since you completed training and began picking up more OT, your checks have been a little off. At first it

This is the sixth time this year that you’ve been waiting to speak to payroll. Since you began this call center job last year, you’ve had probably two checks that were accurate. Every other check has either been missing overtime, a few hours, or in some cases, an entire week of work. Unfortunately, you aren’t generally in the habit of

Whether you left your employer specifically because you’d finally had it with the pay abuses you’ve suffered or left for an unrelated reason, you may be thinking about the legal action you can take to right the wrong of a former employer. If so, you’re not alone. Many nurses end up waiting until they’ve left an employer to look into

Although some wage cases can be a simple matter of going through the right channels with a complaint, many cases end up being a little more complicated than the affected employee is truly ready for. These complications can crop up even in the most straightforward cases because: Popular understanding of wage and hour laws isn’t always accurate: It’s easy to

Although sales representatives work hard to make the companies they work for look good to prospective and existing customers, there is sometimes a dark side to the industry. Unfortunately, many sales representatives are particularly vulnerable to wage abuses, and many end up putting in unpaid hours for their employers that they deserve to be compensated for. Why do sales representatives

Many—far too many—computer maintenance workers and data entry clerks have been erroneously classified as exempt from receiving overtime pay in Houston and throughout Texas. Employers are taking advantage of a provision in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which is designed for programmers and software engineers, to trim their payrolls. As a result, hundreds of employees are being denied thousands