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Papa John's Pizza Investigated for Allegedly Not Paying Employees for Training

Papa John’s Pizza , one of the largest pizza delivery companies in the country, may have conducted Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations, according to both former and current employees. Allegations from the pizza-chain employees state they did not receive wages for mandatory online training sessions. The FLSA requires that employees be paid for any job-related training made necessary by an ...

Shellist Lazarz Slobin LLP Representing Flight Attendant Suing United Airlines

Shellist Lazarz Slobin LLP attorney Bob Debes is representing a flight attendant whose case made the news recently after being required by her employer to stop wearing medically prescribed clogs. 60-year-old Edie Hall is suing United Airlines, her employer, after they rescinded the permission to wear these medically necessary shoes at least three times during her employment working with the ...

Attorneys Debes, Rao & Prieto Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law

Our entire team here at Shellist Lazarz Slobin LLP strives for success and excellence at all times. This dedication to the pursuit of perfection is once again reaffirmed by the recent achievements of Bob Debes , Sidd Rao and Ricardo Prieto , who each earned Board Certification in Labor and Employment Law. They join two of our other lawyers – Todd Slobin and Daryl J. Sinkule – who have also earned ...

NASA Worker Files Lawsuit Over Alleged Mistreatment

Lealem Mulugeta has always had a deeply-held passion for space flight, with a job at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) being a dream of his since he was a small boy. Upon being hired by the organization through contractor Universities Space Research Association, however, he soon found that the job was not what he expected. “There were certain things said to me that were not ...

New Overtime Law to Raise Threshold Blocked by TX Federal Judge

Earlier in the year, the Obama Administration backed and passed a ruling from the Department of Labor (DOL) that would have doubled the minimum threshold for mandatory overtime pay for salaried workers. As the ruling stated, starting December 1 st , 2016, the new threshold would be $47,476 per year, up from $23,660. That has not come into effect, however, and likely will not, due to a federal ...

Former Prairie View A&M Coach Sues School for Defamation

Dawn Brown, the former coach of the Prairie View A&M women’s basketball team who was fired for removing players from the team for violating the team’s dating rules, is now filing a lawsuit against the school for defamation. According to the lawsuit, Ms. Brown is seeking more up to $1,000,000 in damages plus attorney’s fees. The issue stems from a team rule forbidding team members to date fellow ...

Wage & Hour Lawsuits Up 450% in 20 Years

While many employers are getting ready for the massive overtime pay reform law which is set to go into effect in early December, others are likely on the lookout for methods to circumvent the rule due to concerns over drastically higher payroll costs. If a recently released study on wage and hour lawsuits is any indicator, however, employers should be taking this new legislation far more ...

Angleton Mother Prevented from Pumping Breast Milk at Work

An Angleton mother who recently gave birth is reportedly not being provided by her employer with a suitable time or place to pump breast milk at work. Gabrielle Castaneda, who gave birth prematurely to a baby girl in November 2014 with a birth defect which causes her intestines to protrude from her body, was instructed by NICU staff to continue to pump breast milk for her baby to help with her ...