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Combating Fraud and the SEC’s Secret Justice

Combating Fraud and the SEC’s Secret Justice How many times have you heard this story? A big corporation commits fraud and other illegal activities and is caught by the Securities and Exchange Commission. As their regulator, the SEC is responsible for seeking justice for these actions. Next, the company pays a large fine, usually in...

Internships As Free Labor? Not Necessarily According To DOL

The days of filing paper and serving coffee for free may be over. Today’s harsh economy has students accepting unpaid internships for summer employment and, in the alternative, has employers possibly taking advantage of these students. The United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, in an attempt to reduce the number of interns...

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Service Industry Employees

Service Industry Employees Employees in service industries such as mortgage financing, brokers, call centers, and information technology in many cases are paid by salary and commissions and not paid overtime. Many such workers regularly work incredibly long hours and when factoring in their compensation systems are not paid any overtime when the law may require...

Cleaning / Maintenance Industry

Cleaning / Maintenance Industry Many cleaning and maintenance companies will not pay its employees for time spent traveling from one job to another. Additionally, these employers may also pay its employees on a “per job” basis, or a lump sum for a location to be cleaned. In many instances, these employers do not compute over-time...

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Misclassified Assistant Managers/Shift Supervisors

Misclassified Assistant Managers/Shift Supervisors In an effort to cut payroll costs many companies today will name certain employees “assistant manager” or “supervisor” and pay them a set salary. However, due to the nature of the employees’ work and the lack of true management authority, these employees are, in fact, legally entitled to the payment of...

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Independent Contractors

Independent Contractors As with many of the other schemes employed by companies to cut labor costs, many employers will improperly classify employees as “independent contractors”. By doing so, these companies aim to avoid the payment of minimum wages, overtime, employee benefits, FICA taxes, workers’ compensation, and unemployment benefits. Young Law Group is a nationwide leader...

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Denver Health & Hospital Authority to Pay $6.2 Mil

Denver Health & Hospital Authority to Pay $6.2 Million to Settle Claims that it Overbilled Medicare and Medicaid Philadelphia, PA, January 5, 2012– Egan Young, Attorneys-at-Law, is pleased to announce that Denver Health and Hospital Authority (“DHHA”) has agreed to pay $6.3 million to settle allegations that the DHHA submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid...

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Banking Over-time Hours

Banking Over-time Hours Rather than pay employees time and one-half their regular rate for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek, many employers will “bank” the over-time hours and apply them toward a week where the employee worked less than 40 hours. The employee will then be paid for these hours at the regular...

KBR’s Permanent Rain Cloud

KBR’s Permanent Rain Cloud Military contractor KBR, Inc., seems to have one of those personal permanent rain clouds hovering over its head that follows it everywhere. You almost can’t help feeling sorry for the forlorn little former subsidiary of Haliburton…or not. So far, KBR has been sued for (not an exhaustive list): Exposing troops to...

Qui Tam in the Mines

Qui Tam in the Mines As far as we know, they aren’t sending kids into the mines like they used to do in the heady days of 1908, when you had to start working basically as soon as you could walk. That doesn’t mean that mining is any less dangerous today, however. Every year, there seems to...

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