This was my boss at a moving company and overall I thought he was a pretty cool guy. He was always very inconsistent with timing for payouts but I feel like I’ve been genuinely shorted and robbed for my time here.

I waited all week after constant delays to do this load and unload from Colorado to Arkansas, by Thursday we were on the road. Me, the boss, one other employee. I really thought I was gonna get a nice payout for waiting for this job so I didn’t mind having to sleep in the TRUCK and have no food allowance.

The client gave the boss (business owner) a $1500 tip on top of what he was getting payed and told him to distribute to the crew. I was honestly happy with the $200 he gave me.

Then after it’s all over I get a Venmo notification for $275?! (My hourly is $25 btw) I asked my boss politely after if there was any more money coming in and he said yes, I never was sent anything regardless of how many times he reassured himself. Also in my state you are legally required as an employer to provide compensation for each hour on the road (about a 32 hour drive for the whole trip) as well as compensation for food and provide and hotel. He insisted he said he would pay me 100$ for each day and I agreed. I did not and he never told me that. I wouldn’t have agreed.

Waited the whole week for 475$. Hope it’s enough to get by. Lmao.

Hello everyone, thought Id add a post I added to another subreddit here as well

NY - Fired/Constructively forced out after 3 days? Manager verbally abused me, threatened false police report, and classified me as an independent contractor. Do I have any labor law claims?
I live in New York and recently started my first office job after graduating college. I was hired as a Sales Assistant for an international export company.
I only worked for about two and a half days before leaving after an incident with my manager.
On my third day, she assigned me a task involving the number 1438. She gave me no explanation of what the number represented or any context about the transaction. Based on the work I had been doing, I calculated a price per pound, but before completing it I asked a simple clarification question because I wanted to make sure I understood the assignment correctly.
Instead of answering the question, she immediately became angry and started insulting me personally. She criticized my work, my education, and continued yelling instead of explaining the task. This wasn’t the first time she had done this. On my second day, she also berated me for printing Excel sheets differently than she wanted, even though she had never told me her preferred format beforehand.
After she continued insulting me, I lost my temper, slammed the table, and cursed at her.

She then threatened to call building security and the police and claimed she would tell them I had hit her, which is completely false. I called the police myself while still in the office and explained what had happened. The officers responded, and no assault charges or accusations were made against me.

There are several other things that concern me:
I was classified as an independent contractor/freelancer even though I worked in the office on a fixed Monday-Friday schedule under her direct supervision and used the company’s equipment.

During the argument, she reminded me that she had copies of my driver’s license and Social Security information that I had provided during the hiring process.

The office suite displayed a different company name than the company that hired me.

The office only consisted of me and my manager, although she said other employees worked from a Manhattan office.

My questions are:

Does this sound like possible independent contractor misclassification under New York or federal law?
Could the repeated personal insults and threats of making a false accusation have any legal significance, or are they simply not illegal?

Would filing complaints with the New York Department of Labor or the U.S. Department of Labor be appropriate if I believe I was intentionally classified as an independent contractor to avoid payroll taxes and employee benefits?

Are there any other agencies I should consider contacting based on these facts?

I’m mainly looking to understand what legal rights, if any, I have under New York labor law.

So I’m in treatment for an illness. I go to treatment 3X a week. My doctor did the paperwork for intermittent leave so I can attend my appointments. My job accepted it and told me my FMLA was approved. A few days after, my job tells me that they need a doctors note of every appointment that I go to. I’m not comfortable with this. I’m already in a vulnerable spot. I just got this new diagnoses. I don’t feel comfortable asking for additional paperwork every time I go. After my treatment yesterday I decided to ask and it took the staff a hour to get me the note which I understand they are busy. But I’m tired and sick after treatment, I just want to go home. Is this legally required?

Location: NYC

An employee at my job works a 40h week. Paid "hourly" but effectively salary, with a standardized schedule. In addition to their regular work week, the owner often asks them to take other "jobs" outside those hours, paid separately.

The individual and I are both understand why they structure it that way. It falls under "technically legal". I don't have the power to make it right and I'm not going to mess with someone's income unasked.

The owner has informed me the person would not be coming in to one of their work days. They are instead assigned to a longer than usual shift on a separately paid job. They told me to schedule them to "make up the hours" on one of their usual days off. While the schedule change falls within the 72h requirement of NYC's Fair Workweek law, requiring they work on their day off to accommodate the employer's needs feels like it crosses the legal line.

Does it? Or does it just feel like it should?

Back in March, I was approached by my manager to “help out” until he was able to hire a new person. We verbally agreed on a compensation and since this I still haven’t been paid. I have two recordings of us talking about it and where he states that I would get paid at the end of July. It’s now July and the last paystub for this month doesn’t reflect it.

Do I have anything here or should I cut my losses?

I’m looking for some advice from anyone who’s been through the WRC process or knows Irish employment law.

I worked as a support pharmacist in a community pharmacy for around 10 months. During that entire time I never received a written contract or statement of terms, despite asking multiple times. I even have a WhatsApp voice note from one of the owners saying I’d get my contract in October, but I still never received it before I left.

Some of the other issues I experienced were:

\- I was told when I started that some of my shifts would overlap with one of the owners for support, but this never happened.

\- I was regularly contacted on my days off about non-urgent work issues, making it difficult to switch off.

\- I requested annual leave about two months in advance but was told I couldn’t take leave because both owners were travelling abroad together. When I later suggested different dates, I was asked to postpone them again because one of the owners was going away for the weekend.

\- One day I became very ill at work with vomiting, diarrhoea, a fever and feeling faint. I contacted both owners at about 1pm to say I couldn’t continue working. They told me there was no cover available and that their daughter would come in when she could. She didn’t arrive until about 5:30pm, so I had to remain at work despite being obviously unwell.

\- On another occasion when I called in sick, I was told it was “too late to organise cover”, which made me feel pressured to come in.

I have screenshots of WhatsApp messages, holiday requests, messages about being sick, and the voice note about my contract.

I’ve already submitted complaints to the Workplace Relations Commission and have now been given a hearing date.

My questions are:
Do these complaints sound like they have a reasonable chance of succeeding?

Has anyone gone through a WRC adjudication without a solicitor, and how was the experience?

Is there anything else you would do before the hearing to strengthen the case?

I’d really appreciate any advice or experiences from people who’ve been through something similar.

I am currently on the payroll of Randstad, and deputed to a client. So now I am in the client place since april and I am not liking the job, too much pressure. I plan to abscond from this job. Today is July 22nd, can Randstad withhold my salary for July if I abscond? I intend to return client’s assets, the laptop. But I really dont think I can continue to work here.

help!! is this legal?

so after months of searching, i finally found a serving position at a small local restaurant. i went to the interview yesterday and something didn’t sit right with me.

the interviewer told me that it’s required to take an hour break at a scheduled time. however, if during this time we still had a table, i would still have to clock out and take care of the table. and if a table came in, i would have to take them (while remaining off the clock). when i pressed the interviewer about this, he said i would still be earning from the tips so it didn’t matter.

i live in the state of florida so im wondering if anyone else has come across this. thanks!

Hi! I work for a chain nationwide spa as an esthetician, I work in NY state. I just noticed my employer is not paying me all of my hourly wage each week if my commissions “make up the difference” as they stated when I asked them. For example, I worked 18 hours last week (3 of which were actually working on clients, 15 of which were sitting around waiting for clients to book). My paycheck states I made about $90 in wages for the 18 hours I was clocked in, and $160 for my commissions in selling. Is that legal? (The week prior I didn’t sell anything but my paycheck was about the same: $240 in wage, $0 commission). Looking back at numerous paychecks, this has happened several times.

(My commissions come from selling skincare products after a skincare service).

Edit to add: No I did not sign a contract agreeing to this. The only documentation on my salary sheet that I signed was that “additional compensation includes commissions”. I will be bringing this matter to my manager and update the thread as I go. Thanks everyone!

Hey everyone, looking for some perspective from anyone who’s been through employment litigation or FLSA wage claims.

I worked as the sole IT guy for a mid-sized company. Despite having a "Director" title on paper, 90%+ of my actual daily job was hands-on helpdesk work—fixing laptops, repairing hardware, taking 2:00 AM server calls, and answering weekend texts/tickets from executives (including getting yelled at on a Sunday over coffee being out) I worked like a dog everyday, vacation days, sick days weekends never mattered I was still given tickets, emails and phone calls day or night. Even on Holidays.

When I raised concerns about uncompensated overtime:

1. Management handed me a written memo forcing an 85+ hour workweek and converting me to non-exempt with a slashed ~$8.80/hour overtime rate.
2. The memo gave a "take it or leave it" ultimatum: stepping foot back in the building meant accepting those terms.
3. My labor attorney submitted my formal resignation citing constructive discharge and retaliatory wage violations under the FLSA. The memo was send in direct response to the demand letter from my attorney.

My lawyer and I have an airtight paper trail:

• The Written Memo: Admits I'm non-exempt and documents an illegal sub-minimum overtime rate.
• Technical Logs: Server/VPN timestamps, ticket records, and email headers proving active late-night/weekend work.
• Executive Texts: Direct calls and messages from company execs demanding off-the-clock labor on weekends and vacations.

My lawyer submitted a formal demand backed by hard statutory math (3-year lookback, mandatory 100% liquidated double damages, and attorney fees).

Their defense attorney just responded with a laughable $9,000 settlement offer.

It feels like a total slap in the face given that their actual legal exposure is well into six figures, and my attorney says their written memo is a literal smoking gun for a willful violation and retaliation. The wording in the memo says clearly "In response to your demand letter" then slashes my overtime rate moving me to a fixed work week method attempt on a late Friday with no chance to negotiate or fight it. They said clearly returning to work Monday is acceptance of this change.

My Questions:

1. Has anyone else dealt with this kind of insulting "nuisance" lowball early in settlement talks?
2. Is this just standard defense attorney posturing to test if I'm desperate, or do they actually expect people to take pennies on the dollar?
3. How quickly did the numbers start moving once your lawyer called their bluff and pressed forward toward formal court filings or depositions?

Appreciate any insights or shared experiences!

Throwaway account, keeping details vague on purpose.

Long story short: I worked in a corporate training/education role in Dubai. Filed a formal written salary complaint with HR. Got told shortly after (in writing) to stop discussing it with colleagues. Terminated about three weeks later, "effective immediately," with same-day return of laptop/access card/company phone. Company then hired new staff into my exact department that same month, and ran a public event weeks after telling me my role was "redundant."

Filed a complaint with the labour ministry for unpaid notice, gratuity, leave, and arbitrary dismissal compensation - total claim in the low AED 40,000s.

Today's mediation call: the mediator told me arbitrary dismissal compensation only applies if I was still employed at the time I filed the complaint. She's treating my last working day as my termination date (consistent with the company's own termination email), which technically means I wasn't employed anymore when I filed - so she's saying I don't qualify.

Here's the annoying part: the company itself sent me a separate email days later claiming my "notice period" extended a month past that - which would put me employed at the time I filed. But l've spent this whole process arguing my actual last day is the real termination date (because that's what their own termination letter says, and they took my equipment that same day), specifically to lock in my notice pay and gratuity calculations cleanly.

So now I'm stuck: if I argue "I was still technically employed" to save the arbitrary dismissal claim, I contradict my own position on notice pay. If I hold my original date, I might lose the biggest line item in my claim on a technicality - even though the actual retaliation pattern (timing, being told to stay quiet,

concurrent hiring) seems obvious.

They offered a small fraction of my claim. Next call is tomorrow morning.

Has anyone dealt with this specific issue - arbitrary dismissal timing vs. termination date - in a UAE labour dispute? Is the mediator's read on this legally solid, or is this a pressure tactic? Would appreciate any real experience, not just "get a lawyer" (I know that's likely the actual answer, just trying to understand the landscape before tomorrow).

Location: New York, New York
TL;DR: roommate worked for a business we are now pretty sure was a fake or illegitimate business. She’s been waiting for unpaid wages to reimburse me for expenses but now we’re worried the situation is worse than we thought previously. Would like to be more well informed about what legal action can we taken here.

Hi, first time poster here. Thanks in advance for any time and effort shared in the name of helping me.

Info: We’re in NYC / Manhattan, and she worked at this place called Neu Smoothies on Broad St for one month and was never paid. They kept stalling and she eventually quit but has been reaching out to request her wages and has yet to receive response. She owes me for expenses and I’ve been waiting for a payment to be made and now we’re worried we’re screwed. Is there any chance of recovering wages owed to her?

This revelation just occurred, still in initial shock and don’t have a lot of information at my disposal but will provide what I can.

Hi everyone, I'm a mailman in Belgium. I was wondering what people would think about the situation I'm living at work. I have already worked for over 3 years at my company, and because my company wants to cut costs every 2 years or so, they restructure our rounds to make it more "equal" and efficient. Our recent one was in March. My area got a whole new neighbourhood added (and a second one is getting constructed and is already added as well). But since then I almost always make overtime, and these are unpaid because they claim that when you finish earlier in your area, then your shift is over. My contract says that we work with a 38-hour average week per year. Though I get a lot of stress doing my job, I love doing my job, but it's too much because of this, and before March I didn't have any problem with this. When I have a day off, my colleagues are also struggling, and all three of them have quit the job, and I'm currently working part-time because I easily work 8 hours a day without a break if I work fast. I've even had days where I worked 9 hours or more, 1.5 hours more than my shift is intended without pay btw, and this is going on for months. My labour union can't do anything, and I told my manager that I don't want to work more than my daily 7.6-hour shift because of the stress, and they started threatening me with sanctions if I don't keep working. I was wondering if this is forced labour because I feel like it's not legal? I'm also wondering whether more people are in this shit?