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  • 2025
    • September
      • Florida’s Minimum Wage Update: New Rates for Hourly and Tipped Workers in 2025
    • August
    • July
      • Hampton Social Florida Lawsuit | Join the Collective Action
      • I Live in New Jersey but Work in New York — Do I Need a New York Employment Lawyer?
    • June
      • How to Tell if You’re Misclassified as a 1099 Independent Contractor Pool Cleaner in Florida
      • Is the Independent Contractor Agreement I Signed as a Pool Cleaner Legal in Florida?
      • Pool Cleaners in Florida: Were You Misclassified as an Independent Contractor?
      • Unpaid Overtime in the Construction Industry
      • Construction Worker Misclassification
      • Unpaid Hours and Off-the-Clock Work in Construction
      • Minimum Wage Violations in Construction
    • May
      • Do You Get Paid Time and a Half on Memorial Day? Here’s What You Should Know
      • Are Tax-Free Tips Good for Workers? What Restaurant Staff Need to Know
      • Are You Owed Overtime? Unpaid Pre-Shift & Post-Shift Work at Call Centers
    • April
      • Do Florida Grocery Store Supervisors Qualify for Overtime?
    • March
      • Performing More Than 30 Minutes of Continuous Side Work? The Real Rule is 20%
    • February
      • Illinois Supreme Court Rules that Performance Bonuses Must be Included in Overtime Rates
      • How Dine & Dash Policies Lead to Wage Theft
      • Uniform Policies
      • Tip Pools
      • Understanding Wage Theft for Couriers & Delivery Drivers
      • Home Health Care Violations
  • 2024
    • October
      • What You Need to Know About Illinois' Biometric Privacy Law
      • Get Paid, Not Played!
    • July
      • Performing More Than 30 Minutes of Continuous Side Work at a Restaurant Can Lead to Wage Violations
    • March
      • Is the tip pool at your work allocated properly?
    • February
      • When did employers start using biometric time clocks and is it legal?
  • 2023
    • September
      • Illinois Biometric Time Clock: What is it and How Does it Work?
    • July
      • Understanding Biometric Data Laws in Illinois
    • May
      • Can Companies Get Away with Not Paying Overtime?
      • Is Fingerprint Clocking Legal In Illinois?
    • March
      • What makes BIPA so important to employees in Illinois?
    • February
      • Understanding Illinois Biometric Data Law
      • Differences Between PII and Biometric Data
    • January
      • How do Employees Know if Illinois Employers Violated Their Biometric Privacy Rights?
  • 2022
    • September
      • The Storage of Biometric Data
      • What are Collective Action Lawsuits?
    • August
      • Class Action Lawsuits in Wage Litigation Explained
      • Do you know if your employer is misusing YOUR Biometric Data?
    • June
      • Can employers force you to give biometric data?
    • May
      • Founding Partner Jordan Richards, Esq.’s Restaurant Employee Tip Theft Case featured on Law360
    • March
      • Confronting Biometric Data
    • February
      • What is biometric data and how does it affect employment?
    • January
      • How should employers store their employees' biometric data?
  • 2021
    • December
      • How sensitive is PII and biometric data?
    • August
      • Biometric data is protected by Illinois law
    • May
      • Can My Employer Collect My Biometric Data For Company Security?
    • April
      • What is the Illinois Biometric Data Information Privacy Act?
    • February
      • Some “Spy Movie” Technology is Now Real, and It May Be Used On You… But Is It Dangerous?
      • Fort Lauderdale Restaurant Settles Wage Dispute with Misclassified Long-Term Employee
  • 2020
    • December
      • When Can Your Employer Use Your Biometrics?
    • November
      • Good News for Florida’s Minimum Wage Earners
    • September
      • What should I know about U.S. overtime rules?
      • Attorney Jordan Richards Achieves AV Preeminent® Rating, Martindale-Hubbell’s Highest Possible Distinction
      • Jordan Richards, PLLC Represents Workers in a Class Action Lawsuit Against Mondelez Global LLC
      • Why We Celebrate Labor Day
    • August
      • Florida to Consider Biometric Privacy Law
      • Illinois Biometric Privacy Law Protects Workers’ Rights
      • I Was Wrongfully Terminated. Now What?
      • Federal Law Protects Against Unwanted “Robo” Texts
    • July
      • Automatic Lunch Hour Deductions Can Be Hard to Stomach
    • June
      • Restaurant Workers Are Often Victims of Wage Theft by Their Employers
      • Supreme Court Rules LGBTQ Community Can Sue for Workplace Discrimination
      • Wage Theft in the Service Industry
    • April
      • Temporary FMLA expansion offers paid time off for parents taking care of minor children
      • Were You Entitled To Overtime That You Did Not Receive?
      • FMLA Expansion Act
    • March
      • Can Employees Lose Their Jobs If They’re Quarantined for Coronavirus?
    • February
      • Is it possible to receive only the contacts you want?
    • January
      • Attorney Jordan Richards Named to 2020 Rising Stars List
      • New Report Claims 36 Million Workers Are Bound by Noncompete Agreements
      • Proposed Changes to the Tip Regulations Under Consideration
  • 2019
    • December
      • Florida Minimum Wage Changes for 2020
      • Spam Texts and Calls on the Rise in Colorado, Among Others
    • November
      • Overtime Eligibility Will Expand in 2020. Are You Affected?
      • Cannabis Industry Must Pay Overtime, Tenth Circuit Rules
      • Colorado Criminalizes Employers' Failure to Pay Wages
    • October
      • Florida's Laws (Or Lack Thereof) Protecting LGBTQ+ Employees
    • September
      • Florida Overtime Laws During a Hurricane
    • August
      • American Workers & the Importance of Labor Day
    • June
      • Children's Harbor Academic Achievement Awards Ceremony
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