Wage and Hour Law
WI FLSA Requires Employers to Pay Employees for Short Breaks
Court Rules Employers Must Pay for Short Breaks As we have previously noted on this blog, federal and Wisconsin laws do not require employers to...
Hawks Quindel Settles Class Action Wage and Hour Lawsuit against SDX Home Care Operations LLC
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin granted final approval today of a $493,984.81 class action settlement against SDX Home Care...
Water Street Brewery Settles Class Action Lawsuit for $825,000
Attorneys from Hawks Quindel, S.C. and Water Street Brewery have agreed to settle a class action for $825,000 brought by servers to resolve allegations of...
Additional Protection Against Retaliation For Immigrant Workers
Ninth Circuit Says: Undocumented Laborer Can Sue Employer’s Lawyer for Retaliation Pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 215(a)(3) of the Fair Labor Standards Act it is...
Detangling Wisconsin’s White-Collar Exemptions to Overtime Pay from those of the Fair Labor Standards Act
Both Wisconsin law and the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) contain exemptions from overtime pay requirements for certain employees meeting the definition of executive,...
Can an Employer Substitute Compensatory Time Off For Cash Overtime Pay?
*Updated 5/3/2017* Under the misleading title of “The Working Families Flexibility Act” (HR 1180), Congressional Republicans are proposing to allow employers to offer private sector employees...
Commissions Payments to Sales Staff Protected by Wisconsin Law
Wisconsin Law Offers Strong Protections to Sales Representatives for Commissions Due to Them An independent sales representative who works to secure a big contract, counting...
Hawks Quindel Wins Class Certification for Wyndham Sales Representatives Working Off the Clock
On December 29, 2016, Judge William Conley certified a class of In House Sales Representatives who worked for Wyndham Vacation Resorts in the Wisconsin Dells...
Hawks Quindel Files Unpaid Overtime Action Against Epic on Behalf of Quality Assurance Employees
Schultz, K. v. EPIC Systems Corporation Case No. 16-cv-797 Hawks Quindel, along with Habush Habush & Rottier, has filed a collective and class action complaint...