A former employee of Sticker Mule LLC and Print Bear LLC has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the two mutually owned sticker-making companies violated state and federal labor laws by failing to pay overtime wages at the correct rate over a two-year period.
Tierra Bonefort filed the lawsuit through her attorneys on Oct. 5 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
The lawsuit is seeking back pay, attorneys fees and class action status to allow approximately 40 former and current workers at Sticker Mule and Print Bear to join the lawsuit.
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New overtime rule goes into effect tomorrow in Pennsylvania | News, Sports, Jobs - Times
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry updates the Minimum Wage Act’s regulations to expand eligibility for overtime and strengthen protections for Pennsylvanians. The final rule updates the salary threshold to reflect current wages paid to Pennsylvanians working in executive, administrative, and professional occupations.
The Fair Labor Standards Act regulations update that took effect on Jan. 1, 2020, raised the federal overtime salary threshold to $35,568. While Pennsylvania’s overtime rule aligns more closely with the Fair Labor Standards Act, the state Labor and Industry Department has set the minimum salary threshold at $45,500 and the increase will be phased in three steps:
Expanding worker protections - Urbana Daily Citizen
For decades, companies have used temporary workers, subcontractors, and independent contractors as a way to pay people less for the same work, skirt labor laws, and wash their hands of any responsibility for the workers who make their businesses successful.
Corporations will subcontract their food service work or their housekeeping to a company you’ve never heard of, so they can claim they pay their employees well and offer good health care, while not having to apply those standards to their service workers – who are often women and Black and brown workers.
Redefining compensation strategies in the remote work era | BenefitsPRO
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Whitmer Wants To Expand Overtime Rights For Michigan Workers
DETROIT (WWJ) -- Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whimer is looking to expand the number of Michigan workers who are eligible to receive overtime, a move she says will grow the state's middle class.
Whitmer, speaking at a news conference at the Peacock Room in Midtown Detroit Thursday, says the plan would expand the right to overtime for about 200,000 Michigan workers. She says she has directed the state's Labor and Economic Opportunity Department to begin the rulemaking process.
Restore the eight-hour day!
The Sterling Heights Rank-and-File Safety Committee opposes the implementation of 12-hour shifts and seven-day workweeks for skilled trades workers in the plant. We call on workers at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) and other factories to fight the conspiracy of the United Auto Workers and Fiat Chrysler and to demand the immediate rescinding of the plans to bring back industrial slavery.
For years now, workers at SHAP and other Fiat Chrysler plants have been forced to work 10-hour days. During the pandemic, workers are also being forced to work extra shifts over the weekend. Many are temporary part-time (TPT) workers without even basic contractual rights, making wages right on the poverty line. However, full-time workers work 10 hours at straight time on meager wages, with no overtime pay other than mandatory Sundays and back-filled shifts.
Election 2020: What it Could Mean for Restaurants | QSR magazine
This year's presidential election pits Donald Trump against former vice president Joe Biden. Here's what their platforms offer on key restaurant industry issues.
After a contentious battle in 2016, the 2020 presidential election was already set to be a tense affair. But in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the stakes have risen even higher in the race between President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden.
Because the pandemic hit foodservice especially hard, the outcome of this election will be particularly important for restaurants, as the president's agenda will help guide the industry through recovery. Here's how each of the presidential candidates' platforms stack up on the key issues facing restaurant leaders over the next few years.
Anger as UAW rams through 12-hour, 7-day schedule for FCA Sterling Heights Assembly skilled
Over the strong objection of workers, the United Auto Workers and Fiat Chrysler have agreed to impose a grueling 12-hour, 7-day work schedule for skilled tradesmen at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) north of Detroit. The factory builds the highly profitable Dodge Ram light truck.
The new pattern is based on the Alternative Work Schedule (AWS) provisions implemented under the terms of the national UAW-FCA contract. It involves four rotating crews who each work seven twelve-hour days in a row, then are off for seven days over the course a two-week period. The workers are compensated at straight time, with no overtime pay awarded for work after eight hours.
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