Migliaccio & Rathod LLP, along with co-counsel, has filed a collective action lawsuit, Osorio v. Rust-oleum Corporation, Inc., over allegations that Rust-Oleum failed to pay employees the proper overtime rate. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires that all employees must be compensated at time and a half their regular rate for all hours worked […]
On July 22, 2022, Judge Christy Criswell Wiegand, United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania granted final approval of a $2,725,000 settlement in a class action brought against Great Arrow Builders LLC, Inc., on behalf of its employees: Rafael A. Morel Then v. Great Arrow Builders LLC, Inc., Case No. 2:20-cv-00800 (W.D.P.A.). […]
Migliaccio & Rathod LLP, with Sommers Schwartz, PC, has filed a class action lawsuit against JAC Products, Inc. over allegations that JAC failed to pay employees the proper overtime rate. According to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), all employees must be compensated for hours worked over 40 in a workweek according to their regular […]
Do you work in the public sector and receive extra pay on top of your normal hourly wages? If so, your overtime may be miscalculated and you could be owed money. Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is investigating cases in which state, county, and city government employees have been inadequately paid for working overtime in pay periods during […]
Migliaccio & Rathod is investigating various California employers for failure to properly compensate employees for meal and rest breaks. The California Supreme Court recently released a ruling through which they established that meal and rest break premiums are to be paid at the regular rate, not the hourly rate of pay. This ruling, they elaborated, […]
The parties have reached a class action settlement in Crigler v. Seven Point Energy Services, Inc., Case No.: 19-cv-00604-MJH (W.D.Pa.), over allegations that Defendant failed to properly pay Plaintiff and all similarly situated employees overtime wages for hours worked over 40 hours per workweek in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the Pennsylvania […]
The attorneys at Migliaccio & Rathod have successfully prosecuted a number of noteworthy consumer protection, wage and hour, civil rights, and environmental contamination cases, including the following: Consumer Protection Cases Jump to: Automotive; Technological; Data Breaches; Miscellaneous Automotive Consumer Protection Adeli v. Silverstar Automotive, Inc.: Case No. 5:17-cv-05224 (W.D. Ark.). M&R was co-lead trial counsel […]
Wage theft is simple: an employer takes money that belongs to an employee. The schemes to do so, however, can be complex. Migliaccio & Rathod LLP’s wage theft attorneys in DC are experienced at seeing through smoke and mirrors to hold employers accountable when they break the law. Practicing nationwide, the firm has recovered millions […]
Migliaccio & Rathod is currently investigating Pennsylvania restaurants and other tip-dependent employers following a change in the law which increases the threshold at which employers may pay a tipped minimum wage. The longstanding law in Pennsylvania has been that tipped workers may be paid the tipped minimum wage, which in PA is $2.83/ hour, if […]
Restaurant servers are frequently victims of wage theft. Federal law, as well as most states’ laws, allow servers to earn a tipped minimum wage that is lower than the standard minimum wage, only if they make up the difference in tips. In Washington D.C., for example, restaurants only have to pay servers $5.05 an hour, […]
