Wages & Benefits in Houston
All Houston employees have legal rights involving wages and employment benefits, which include a minimum wage, overtime pay, employee health insurance, retirement plans, and tipping for certain service sector employees. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in particular establishes minimum wages, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers.
If you need advice on an employment law issue, including advice on wages or benefits, you should speak with a Houston employment lawyer. Houston employment lawyers can assess your legal issue and can tell you how to go about filing a claim. You can find a local lawyer by viewing FindLaw's directory of Houston employment lawyers.
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A former assistant store manager at a Palm Beach Tan salon has filed a federal class action lawsuit against the company, alleging that the company has failed to pay its employees overtime wages. The Southeast Texas Record reports that the suit was filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division and that the suit accuses the tanning salon chain of misclassifying some employees as exempt from overtime pay.
It's illegal for an employer to require workers to show up early to a job without pay. The Southeast Texas Record reports that one woman who worked in the scaffolding department at the BP plant in Texas City is now suing her employer, claiming that she was required to report for duty at least 10 minutes prior to her actual start time of 7 a.m. Yet she claims that she was not compensated for the extra time.
A jury trial has been requested in a case where Jefferson County corrections officers are suing Jefferson County to obtain compensation for the overtime hours they claim they worked during Hurricane Ike in September 2008. The Southeast Texas Record reports that the Jefferson County Association of Deputy Sheriffs and Corrections Officers filed suit on September 7 in the Eastern District of Texas, Beaumont Division.