Wage Theft Often Goes Unreported. Don’t Let It Happen to You. Wage theft occurs when your employer withholds pay that you’ve rightfully earned. It’s a huge problem in the United States; one study by Cooper and Kroeger documented that approximately 2.4 million workers lost about $8 billion per year due […]
Category: Wage Theft & Unpaid Wages
How They Affect You Back in May, we reported on new rules for tipped employees in Pennsylvania that were scheduled to go into effect. Those rules just came into effect on August 5, 2022—an unbelievable 45 years after protections for tipped employees were first enacted. Here’s what’s in the law, […]
How It Protects Your Rights You don’t have to tell interviewers how much you made in past jobs if you are applying for work in Philadelphia. That’s because the Philadelphia Wage Equity Ordinance, which went into effect in September 2020, makes it unlawful for any employer, hiring agency or agent […]
Your Rights and Protections Are About To Get Stronger In the fall of 2021, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry proposed a much-needed update to rules protecting tipped employees in the state. Recently, the Attorney General approved the update—and it will go into effect by August 5, 2022. The […]
Two Pennsylvania Laws That Protect Your Right to Get Paid In Pennsylvania, two important statutes protect your right to be paid a fair wage—and your right to sue to collect that wage, if a dispute arises. They are the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act and the Wage Payment and Collection Law. […]