Many young adults in Maryland, as well as older adults who are looking for a career change, take advantage of internship opportunities in the summer months. Internships are a great way for inexperienced workers to get their feet wet and learn about a particular...
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Maryland school bus drivers file wage theft suit against employer
As we have previously noted in this Greenbelt Employment Law Blog, wage theft is becoming a growing trend in Maryland. Wage theft occurs when employers, for one reason or another, refuse to pay workers their earned wages. Some of the latest allegations of wage theft...
Overtime pay is at stake in federal legislation
The federal Fair Labor Stanwagedards Act has long required Maryland employers to pay hourly employees overtime rates for hours worked in excess of 40 in a given week. This federal employment right could soon change, however, as a controversial bill continues to make...
Construction workers sue supervisor for unpaid wages
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,...
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...
Can you be fired for complaining about your job on Facebook?
Facebook has been a somewhat frequent topic on our Greenbelt employment law blog. This is because employment questions have arisen in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., area about whether employees should be allowed to use social media at work, and whether employers...
Can you be fired for shopping online at work in Maryland?
The holidays are here and if you are like many Maryland residents, you multitasked this year by buying gifts online. You may have even tried to save time by doing some of your holiday shopping online during the work day--but, will that come back to haunt you? A recent...
President signs whistle-blower protection bill
When employees report the illegal or fraudulent activities of their employers, they are protected by law from being retaliated against at work. This generally means that the employee, the whistle-blower, cannot be fired or subjected to a discriminatory or hostile work...
Maryland company bounced paychecks, paid workers late
Greenbelt residents may have heard about the wage disputes that janitors, who work at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda and two other federal facilities, are having with their employer. Until Tuesday, about 300 janitors had not been paid for the...