Wage and Hour Claims Lawyer in Sugar Land
Failure to Pay Overtime
Some of our society's most difficult jobs pay the people who are willing to do them very little in the way of money. These include restaurant employees, day laborers, agricultural workers, food processing plant employees, assembly line workers, retail employees, and others. The work involved in these jobs is hard and often back-breaking and the hours are long. To make matters worse, some employers try to take advantage of the fact that many of the people who take these jobs are immigrants who desperately need the work and who do not understand the laws of this country. In doing so, they sometimes require these employees to work much more than 40 hours a week without paying them the legally required overtime wage.
We think these workers deserve better treatment. If you or a loved one has been denied the money that you rightly earned, a Sugar Land wage and hours claim lawyer can assist you in taking legal action to seek fair payment.
Sugar Land Employee Rights Attorney
The employee rights attorneys at The León Law Firm, P.C. handle cases involving the failure to pay overtime wages on behalf of people and families from throughout Sugar Land and in Fort Bend, Harris, Montgomery, Brazoria, and Galveston counties. These cases include:
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) claims
- Non-exempt employee claims
- Wage and hour claims
- Failure to pay overtime claims
Our lawyers understand the hesitation you may have at contacting an attorney and pursuing a claim against your employer. However, if you are being asked to work more than 40 hours a week or paid per day but are not being paid a higher hourly wage for that additional time, it's not going to get better if you leave it alone. In fact, the only mistake you can make is to not do something about it.
If you would like to have a free and confidential discussion about a specific concern in this area, we welcome the opportunity to speak with you.
Contact a Sugar Land Wage and Hour Claims Lawyer at our firm today to discuss a failure to pay overtime or other case. |