You work hard and long hours, but your employer does not want to pay you fair and decent wages. Your employer is not paying you the minimum wage required in New York State and New York City. You are not being paid overtime. Your employer is taking your tips. Your employer is skimming your commissions. Your employer is misclassifying you as a manager or administrative employee or independent contractor supposedly exempt from overtime. Your employer is taking advantage of you because you are an undocumented worker. Your employer is even taking your lunch.

You tell us that your employer pays you in cash or with a check, and does not account for all the hours you actually worked. He makes you work off the clock and does not give you accurate records of your hours and rate of pay. Or your employer pays you for overtime, but at the same rate as straight time. That’s not right, and it’s illegal in New York City under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the New York State Labor law.

If you work more than 40 hours in any seven day period, you may be entitled to be paid time and a half for any hours in excess of 40. And your employer must keep accurate records of the time that you work, each and every day. In addition, your employer cannot subject you to retaliation and fire you because you have complained about not being paid as required by law.

Contact us online or call us at (212) 949-1001 so that we can review if your New York City employer is not paying you properly, not paying you minimum wage, not paying you overtime or has acted illegally in other ways in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) or New York State Labor Law.