by Summer Murshid | Nov 9, 2012 | Firm News, Summer Murshid
Hawks Quindel is a firm of diverse practice areas – family law, wage and hour, employment law, social security disability, workers compensation, short and long term disability, consumer law, school law and personal injury. We are also a diverse group of individuals...
by Summer Murshid | Nov 7, 2012 | Summer Murshid, Wage and Hour Law
Employers must keep records of the hours worked by their employees, including overtime hours, and of the wages the employees are paid. Federal law says that employers must “make, keep and preserve” records on non-exempt employees.1 Those records include, among others,...
by Summer Murshid | Sep 4, 2012 | Employment Law, Summer Murshid
Suppose you’ve met with an attorney or conducted some of your own research (Check out prior blog posts here and here for additional information) and determined that you have a claim under Wisconsin law. Before you decide to proceed with your case, you should know what...
by Summer Murshid | Jul 12, 2012 | Summer Murshid, Wage and Hour Law
My Employer Was Taken Over By Another Company… Can the New Company Be Liable for Wage Violations? It happens all the time. A new management company comes in to run a hotel, a restaurant is sold to a new owner or two businesses merge into one. These changes in...
by Summer Murshid | Jun 29, 2012 | Summer Murshid, Wage and Hour Law
As we have discussed many times in our blog posts, employers are required to pay most employees at a rate of 1.5 times the regular rate for all hours worked over 40. One of the common problems we run into when we are representing Plaintiffs in wage and hour lawsuits...