Your employer may increase your hours as described, but you should also make sure you're being properly paid for each hour worked. If you work more than 40 hours in a single, 7-day workweek, you should be paid overtime at a rate of one-and-one-half times your regular hourly rate for each hour... View More

Texas is an at-will employment state, meaning either you or your employer can terminate the employment relationship at any time for any reason or no reason at all, as long as the reason is not discriminatory (i.e. is not based on your race, sex, age, disability, religion, or sexual orientation).

Your employer is not required to offer any designated break period during your shift. However, if you do have an unpaid break built into your schedule and you are unable to take these breaks because you're working through them, you should be paid for this time. Your employer is also... View More

Your employer can ask you to work outside your normal schedule, but you must be paid for this time. The general rule under the Fair Labor Standards Act is that you must be paid for all hours worked. If your employer requires you to work more than 40 hours per week, then you must be paid overtime at... View More

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, hourly-paid employees must be paid overtime at a rate of one-and-one-half times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek. A "workweek" is a 7-day period (it can begin/end on any day of the week but spans 7 days regardless).... View More

While employers may require their employees to give notice before they resign, they do not need to allow you to work through your termination notice period. So, in your situation, your employer need not let you work the full two weeks leading up to your resignation. This is because Ohio is an... View More

The general rule is that you cannot collect unemployment at the same time that you are collecting severance benefits. However, if your severance payment was only a one-time payout, you should only be ineligible for unemployment during the week you received your severance payout. The same will... View More

The Fair Labor Standards Act (the federal laws governing this situation) don't provide a lot of protection against this sort of issue. Under the FLSA, you need only be paid at least minimum wage for all hours of work you perform. So, while your situation sounds unfair, as long as you are still... View More

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the general rule is that you must be paid for all hours you spend performing work for the company, but you need not be paid for time that you're not performing work. So, the answer to your question will depend on whether you still performed work on days you... View More

Generally, employers are not required to offer pay on days that you do not perform work. However, you should consult your employee manual or handbook and review your employer's policy regarding holiday pay or other paid time off (if it has one). Employers may set up their PTO policies in... View More

The answer to this question will depend on what your company's attendance policy is and what kind of documentation your doctors sent over. It will also depend on what your job duties were and for how long you needed to be out of work. You may potentially have a claim for disability... View More

If you have already reported the incidents of sexual harassment to your company's HR Department, the next step would be filing a Charge of Discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"). However, make sure you've already reported the incident(s) to HR... View More

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, your employer is obligated to engage in an interactive process with you to come up with a reasonable accommodation for a disability. If your employer has additional questions about what your disability is and how it restricts your ability to wear a mask to... View More

Generally, in at-will employment states, employers may fire their employees for any reason or for no reason at all and need not provide you any opportunity to tell your side of the story. However, you may have a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") here. But whether you... View More

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, tip pools are permissible as long as tips are only being pooled between people who would ordinarily receive tips or contribute to the customer's tip. This includes servers and bartenders as well as bussers and runners. As long as you do NOT have to pool tips... View More

You may have a claim for disability discrimination and/or failure to accommodate under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Employers who employ 15 or more people are subject to the ADA. The ADA generally requires employers to offer reasonable accommodations to their employees (in your case, an... View More

It sounds like you may have a claim for sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. To establish this claim, you have to prove you were qualified for your original job, you suffered an adverse employment action (a pay cut or demotion to a less favorable or prestigious job... View More

Your employer is required to pay you for all the hours you performed work, so if he is still withholding pay from you, you are entitled to your unpaid wages for work you performed. However, employers are not required to offer any kind of severance benefits (pay after employment ends). If this... View More

Your employer is required to pay you at least minimum wage for all hours spent performing compensable work. The question of whether an employee is performing compensable work during on-call time depends on the degree to which the employee may use the time for their own personal activities. The key... View More

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), you must be paid for all hours worked. Your employer cannot tell you to collect unemployment in place of paying you for your time worked after you were laid off. Depending on how many unpaid hours you worked, your employer's refusal to pay... View More