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Are you being paid
for all hours worked?
Calculating Minimum
Wage & Overtime
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
-- Frederick Douglass, April 1886
The Tran Law Firm is a groundbreaking plaintiffs� overtime class action law firm. Innovative, energetic, with an unrelenting mindset for success, the firm has pursued overtime lawsuits in industries that has rarely been tested before. The Tran Law Firm represents individuals against large companies in complex, class and collective action lawsuits for wage and hour violations. While we do file FLSA minimum wage and overtime lawsuits on behalf of individuals, we excel in collective and class action overtime lawsuits. The Firm has developed, changed, and enforced wage and hourly rules to protect workers� rights. What makes the Tran Law Firm different in the field of overtime law is that we are Trial Lawyers who have the skills and experience to succeed in the courtroom. The firm is centrally located in Houston, Texas and has a national practice, litigating and arbitrating cases throughout the country.
With few exceptions, most employees are entitled to a wage of at least $7.25 per hour for each hour worked. Most employees are also entitled to be paid time and a half for overtime hours work.
The overtime rules do not apply to employees whose duties fit specific legal exemptions. However,, your employer may have misclassified you as exempt when you are not. The most important thing to remember is that it is the law and your actual duties that control whether you get overtime – not your agreement with your employer, or the title of your job position.
Rules for Overtime Exemptions
Rules for Salaried Employees
Even when your employer pays you at the correct rate, your employer may have failed to count all of the time for which you are entitled to compensation. Failure to count all hours worked can result in minimum wage violations, if your total pay divided by your real hours does not result in the required hourly minimum. Failure to count all hours can also result in overtime violations, if some of your overtime hours are not compensated.
Rules for Calculating Hours Worked
Rules for Tipped Employees
It is illegal for your employer to retaliate against you or terminate you for speaking up and filing a lawsuit in order to collect your minimum wage and overtime.