Employee Rights Blog

If you’ve ever wondered why your employer makes you take forced meal breaks without pay, here’s why. [more]

Whether or not you’re entitled to receive show-up pay due to lack of work, depends on whether or not you are working under an agreement, company policy or state wage and hour law (or a related rule, regulation, or order) that requires your employer to pay it to you. [more]

An increase to the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour is not anticipated in 2011. However, the seven states listed below increased the minimum wage on the effective date of January 1, 2011, to the hourly rates shown. [more]

There are no federal “unfair pay laws” (or “unfair pay acts”) named as such, but the federal laws summarized below protect employees from unfair pay practices in one way or another. [more]

There are no “layoff laws” that regulate all to do with layoffs, because employment is presumed to be at will in the USA. However, employees are protected to a degree by a few laws that function as layoff laws of sorts. [more]

If you’re wondering whether or not your employer must give you time off from work to vote in U.S. elections, such as in the midterm congressional elections on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, it depends on whether or not the state in which you work has enacted a law with employee “time off to vote” provisions. [more]

To better understand the answer to that question, it’s important to first know that U.S. courts consider employment to be “at will”. [more]