The Fair Labor Standards Act enables workers on federal contracts to sue for unpaid wages even when the contracts state they are governed by laws giving only the U.S. government a right to take legal action against the contractors, a federal appeals court has ruled in reviving a lawsuit from Bethesda.

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The owner of two Prince George’s County strip clubs owes his dancers unpaid wages because they were employees and not independent contractors -- as he had erroneously asserted -- a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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Applicants for table-game dealer jobs at Maryland Live casino can move forward with a lawsuit alleging their participation in a “dealer school” run by the casino amounted to employee training for which they should have been compensated, a federal appellate ...

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Nine former M&T Bank employees have filed suit against the company, alleging they worked 60-hour weeks without overtime pay doing routine clerical work despite being hired to perform compliance and analytical tasks. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court ...

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A national provider of home health care workers based in Columbia faces dozens of lawsuits claiming the company improperly classified workers to avoid paying them minimum wage and overtime. As of Friday afternoon, 73 complaints have been filed in U.S. ...

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Two former line cooks at Bryan Voltaggio’s restaurants have sued the celebrity chef over unpaid wages. The federal lawsuit, filed Monday, claims Voltaggio made hourly employees perform “off-the-clock work,” in some cases arriving three hours prior to when a shift ...

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A former employee of McCabe, Weisberg & Conway LLC in Laurel is suing the law firm, alleging her employer violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by incorrectly classifying her as a salaried employee in order to avoid paying her for ...

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The Department of Labor has weighed in on when to classify workers as employees and independent contractors, issuing a 15-page memo with new interpretations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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The owners of Woodberry Kitchen and its sister restaurants do not pay prep cooks daily wages unless they work 10-hour shifts, according to a potential class-action federal lawsuit filed Friday. The pastry cooks, line cooks and bread-bakers also regularly worked ...

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LA Fitness has agreed to pay nearly $50,000 in unpaid wages and overtime to settle a Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuit brought by four current and past employees. The health club chain also will pay more than $40,000 in attorneys’ ...

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