Voytas Law, LLC has represented many hourly workers in wage disputes. With the Passage of Proposition B, Missouri’s minimum wage is set to increase to $9.45 per hour in 2020. This makes the minimum overtime rate, where applicable, $14.18. Tipped employees must make $4.73 per hour, plus tips necessary to bring the total compensation to…
Rick Voytas represented Mr. Robert Pace in a jury trial in 2019. Robert was a worker at a car wash in St. Louis. Rick Voytas won $18,522 in unpaid tips for Robert at trial by using the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Act specifies that only tipped employees, not management, can share in a “tip…
Voytas Law, LLC represents workers who have not been paid properly. We sometimes encounter employers who fire an employee and thereafter believe that the terminated employee is somehow less deserving of his or her final paycheck. Missouri law provides employees who quit or are fired with some important protections. We are able to use these…
The Missouri Department of Labor has announced that the new minimum wage for 2018 will be $7.85. You can view the DOL press release here. This increase not only affects regular hours, but also increases the minimum allowable pay for overtime work for qualified employees. There is no “grace period” for this increase. Voytas Law,…
Voytas Law, LLC represents workers who have not been paid in accordance with the law. Many times, we hear from people who have been told that they cannot qualify for overtime pay because they receive a salary. For many employees, this is simply not the case. There is a broad category of “salaried” employees who…
Sometimes, we hear from workers that their employer has a “policy” of not paying overtime, or that their employer will only pay them for an eight hour day even if the worker is at work for longer than that. If you are a qualified worker under the Fair Labor Standards Act, you can use federal…