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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A Curious Company Called Agility

A Curious Company Called Agility Agility is one of those companies whose name gives you no clue as to what it actually does. It could be physical therapy or investments, but what Agility, which is actually a Kuwaiti logistics firm, seems to do very adeptly these days is getting itself in trouble with the U.S....

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Aetna Told to Go Sit in the Corner for Medicare Compliance Violations

Aetna Told to Go Sit in the Corner for Medicare Compliance Violations Aetna appears to have gotten itself in some pretty big trouble. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), effectively Aetna’s authority figure, has punished the insurer for violations related to Aetna’s administration of the Medicare Advantage plan. The violations stem from Aetna’s move...

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The Neverending Bradley Birkenfeld / UBS Saga

The Neverending Bradley Birkenfeld / UBS Saga If you’re interested in whistleblowers, you probably know about the saga of Bradley Birkenfeld. Birkenfeld turned over information to the IRS that led to a deal between UBS and AG Eric Holder to relinquish the names of 4,500 potential tax cheats. UBS also paid a $780 million fine. For his...

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