Is forced Tip Pooling Legal? Not in Kentucky.
Unlike most of the country, mandatory tip pooling is illegal in Kentucky. Read more
Are Unpaid Internships Legal in Kentucky?
A constant worry in the workplace is how much money you will be receiving at the end of the day for your hard-earned paycheck. While this decision is mostly left to the employer’s discretion, there are some laws that help regulate and govern how much employees must be paid at a minimum. One of these…
Do Federal Overtime and Minimum Wage Laws Protect Me?
While states such as Kentucky have implemented their own laws to protect employees, it is always important to remember that the federal government has also passed legislation to protect certain kinds of workers. One such piece of legislation is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This law was introduced in 1938 to mandate aspects of…
Kentucky Supreme Court rules that Class Action Suits are now available for claims arising under the Kentucky Wage and Hour Act
In modern times, a substantial number of people in America have been involved in class action lawsuits, whether it is because they are a party in the case or they received notification they were entitled to recovery from a class action suit, and everything in between. Until a recent 2017 ruling, Kentucky workers could not…
New Labor Rules Could Bring Overtime Pay To Millions Of Salaried Employees
Let’s say you’re salaried worker, like an assistant manager at a fast-food restaurant, making a salary of $35,000 per year. Your restaurant is drastically understaffed, and even though you work up to 20 hours of overtime per week, you don’t receive any additional compensation for the extra hours. Is this OK? Somewhere between 4.5 and…
TURNING MINIMUM WAGE INTO A LIVABLE WAGE
Since 2008, the Federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 an hour. Since that time, however, inflation has continued to rise, with a cumulative rate of 10.7%. Simply put, the current minimum wage isn’t as effective in reducing poverty and increasing the standard of living for workers as it once was. While the costs of…
Overtime Overhaul?
PRESIDENT PUSHES FOR REVISIONS TO CURRENT OVERTIME REGULATIONS Despite the fact that leading corporations have more than doubled their profits since 2009, the New York Times reports that wages for employees working for these companies have remained stagnant. There’s no question that something is amiss in today’s corporate economy when companies are reporting record profits,…
House Bill 1 to Increase Kentucky’s Minimum Wage to $10.10 Has Won Committee Approval, Long Road Ahead in the Senate
House Speaker Greg Stumbo won committee approval today of his bill to increase the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10. This would reportedly affect the wages of 391,000 Kentuckians who currently make less than $10.10 an hour. House Bill 1 proposes to implement this change over three years, and the bill would not…
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS…And Working Overtime in Kentucky
The basics of overtime compensation are pretty well-known to most workers: “time-and-a-half,” working over 40 hours in a week, etc. But do you know what kinds of workers are entitled to overtime pay? What about the workers who aren’t? Can you max out overtime pay? Are salaried employees eligible for overtime compensation? This article will…
LET’S TAKE FIVE: An Overview of Kentucky’s Work and Lunch Break Laws
We’ve all had those long, grueling days on the job before. The work keeps coming, the deadline is inching closer and closer, and your boss is getting increasingly frantic about getting everything done. How do you handle that situation? Do you skip lunch to meet that deadline? Do you just keep working and working until…
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