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Are You Entitled To Overtime Pay?

Employers are required in almost all circumstances to pay nonexempt workers time and one-half for any hours worked over 40 in one week. The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) is a federal law that gives all employees certain rights as to overtime. Many employers either ignore the FLSA or are unaware of all of its requirements. If you believe you have worked overtime and have not been properly compensated for it, the lawyers at Morriss, Lober & Dobson can help.

Morriss, Lober & Dobson’s attorneys represent employers and employees in the ins and outs of the FLSA and have the experience to fight for your overtime rights.

Employees are entitled to recover their overtime and may even be entitled to recover twice the amount owed in overtime in certain cases. The FLSA has strict time limits on when a claim for overtime may be filed, so you need to take action now to

Employers often try to avoid paying you the overtime you deserve by:

• denying employees overtime pay when the overtime is not “approved by management;”
• only paying employees their regular rate for overtime work;
• carrying over one week’s overtime hours into another week;
• taking you “off the clock” for lunch or rest breaks, even though you are still working;
• requiring employees to arrive early for work to perform necessary preparations for work;
• altering employees’ time sheets or adjusting them with or without the employees consent;
• making employees take “comp time” in lieu of overtime pay;
• having employees work "off the clock;"
• forcing employees to “eat at their desk;”
• forcing employees to perform duties, such as answer the phones, during their “lunch” or other non-paid breaks.

Make sure you are paid what you are owed!

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