Los Angeles Employment Lawyer Blog

Are you a non-exempt worker? (If you don’t know the answer to whether you are a non-exempt employee or an exempt employee, click here to find out). If you are a non-exempt worker, is your employer asking or expecting you to work more hours, but is not compensating you for your extra time? Whether you are an hourly employee or a salaried employee, an experienced employment lawyer can make sure that if you are working overtime that you are getting paid for your time as a non-exempt employee. Wage and hour rules are governed by both the California Labor Code and the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. In addition to receiving payment for hours worked over time, if you are working overtime you are entitled to legally-mandated meal and rest breaks.

A few examples of how employers violate an employees' wage and hour requirements include:

• You are misclassified as "exempt" from receiving overtime pay


• You are not provided an uninterrupted meal break within the first five hours of work


• Your employer fails to provide ten minute breaks for every four hours of work


• Your employer fails to provide paid time for tasks required to prepare for work


• Your employer fails to provide a second meal break for shifts longer than ten hours


• Your employer fails to ensure that employees being paid per-project are meeting minimum wage requirements.


• Your employer fails to provide proper pay stubs with all required information

If you are concerned that you have been working overtime in California but have not been compensated adequately for your hours, call the lawyers at the Law Offices of Greenberg & Rudman LLP at 1-800-252-9776 for a free and confidential consultation. You won’t owe us any money for the call, and we work on a contingency, which means that we don’t get paid unless you get paid. Call 1-800-ALAWPRO now- we’re here to help.