Under the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Act, employees have the right to be paid on time. Employees can generally pursue lawsuits in order to recover any unpaid wages from their employers after a paycheck is at least two weeks late. In some industries, however,...
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Month: March 2013
Strippers in West Virginia file class action wage theft lawsuit
Wage theft is a significant issue in the Metro Washington, D.C., area. "Wage theft" refers to employers failing to pay employees legal wages. This occurs when employers neglect to pay overtime properly, pay workers less than minimum wage or misclassify workers as...
Employer fires woman for engaging in premarital sex
Under both Maryland law and federal employment law, pregnancy discrimination is illegal. While these anti-discrimination laws are very clear, a gray area has recently emerged. Several Christian employers have recently been accused of firing unwed pregnant women from...
Howard County police officer accuses department of discrimination
In this day and age, it is difficult to accept that discrimination still plays a significant role in some U.S. workplaces. Discrimination in employment has been explicitly outlawed since 1964, but unfortunately people are still sometimes treated unfairly, demoted or...
Should all workers in Maryland have paid sick leave?
Some Maryland residents may know that our state's lawmakers have recently debated both whether the state's minimum wage should be raised and whether the state should require all employers to offer paid sick time off to all workers. While both bills are controversial,...