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If you think nothing is wrong with your paycheck, you may want to take a closer look. Many workers are uncertain on how to decipher their paycheck, let alone how to tell if they have been shortchanged. With nuances in Federal Labor Laws as well as lesser known New York State and local labor laws, you have rights that may be going overlooked. Read on below to see what you might be missing:

1. You are paid every 2 weeks instead of weekly.

If ...

Fitapelli & Schaffer is proud to announce that Frank Mazzaferro, Partner, and Armando Ortiz, Associate, have been selected once again to the Super Lawyers 2020 Rising Stars list. This selective award allows no more than 2.5 percent of lawyers in the state to receive this honor. Through a research team at Super Lawyers who conduct a patented multiphase selection process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area, Frank Mazzaferro and ...

Enterprise Rent-A-Car (“Enterprise”) has just been sued by its employees for allegedly not getting paid on time. The proposed class action lawsuit claims that Enterprise, the largest car rental provider in the world, has failed to pay its New York employees on a weekly basis as required by the New York Labor Law (“NYLL”). This lawsuit seeks to recover pay for untimely wages and other damages for all current and former similarly situated drivers and manual labor positions (collectively, “Manual Workers”) ...

Joseph Fitapelli and Brian Schaffer have been selected to this year’s NY Super Lawyers list yet again. Through their dedication and commitment to their hard-working clients, both founding partners have made the selective cut of being featured on this list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Together, Mr. Fitapelli and Mr. Schaffer have helped recover well over 100 million dollars for their clients. The firm specializes exclusively on ...

Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc, one of the world’s largest meat packaging and processing companies, has been sued for unpaid overtime wages. On June 23, 2020, Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP, and Shellist Lozarz Slobin LLP filed an amended complaint that alleges Tyson failed to pay its Production Supervisors overtime and related damages with regard to wage violations. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), a federal law, these employees may be entitled to recover overtime for their tie spent working at ...

Air Methods, which provides medical helicopter emergency air transport to over 100,000 patients a year throughout multiple states, will be paying almost $80 million to its employees to settle claims they owed them significant wages. A California judge has given final approval of the $78 million settlement that will compensate flight crew employees for unpaid overtime and missed breaks. The company has also committed to paying its California medical flight crews daily overtime going forward as ...

Healthcare workers have received final approval of a $3.2 million settlement resolving claims of unpaid wages by a nurse staffing company. This nationwide hospital staffing company, Advantage RN, allegedly failed to correctly pay its workers for overtime under federal and state law. The lawsuit that was filed back in May 2017 against Advantage RN alleged violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and California labor law which included unpaid overtime and untimely pay.  More than ...

Facebook employees of the social media giant recently reached a $1.65 million settlement to resolve claims of unpaid overtime. More than 60 employees that were employed by Facebook as client solution managers (“CSMs”) between December 2, 2015 and June 12, 2020 stand to benefit from this settlement if the judge approves of the agreement. Each affected worker will receive a net average $15,000 after fees and costs.

The original putative class and collective action lawsuit, which was ...

Employee reimbursement regardingbusiness expenses is on the forefront of many workers’ minds these days. This year, with a pandemic causing a dramatic change to business operations, many employers were forced to transition some, or all, of their workers to work remotely. Even though companies may have made an initial attempt to ensure their employees had the necessary technology to make the transition as seamless as possible, this is uncharted territory for many businesses and employees alike, and its important to ...

Prison guards of CoreCivic Inc., a private prison operator, have just resolved claims of unpaid wages for $3.2 million. The class action lawsuit had claimed the affected employees went unpaid for the time spent clearing security checks before and after their shifts. More than 1,200 prison guards who worked for CoreCivic in California between 2012 and 2019 stand to benefit from the settlement.

The lawsuit had alleged that the company failed to pay its employees during the ...