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Fair Labor Standards Act Claim Lawyer
Texas
Fair Labor Standards Act Lawyer, Jason Coomer, handles FLSA
claims where employee and workers are underpaid for the work
that they do. Fair Labor Standards Act claims include off-the-clock
claims and misclassification claims where large employers
unlawfully underpay large groups of employees.
Examples include misclassification of employees as
executives to avoid paying overtime, not paying employees
for mandatory activities that benefit the employer, and
paying workers below minimum wage for work.
If your employer is misclassifying
employees as executives to avoid overtime or requiring
employees to work without pay, you may have a FLSA claim.
Texas Fair Labor Standards Act Lawyer, Jason Coomer works with other FLSA
lawyers on large Fair Labor Standards Act claims throughout the United States
and Texas.
For a free review of a potential Fair Labor Standards Act claim,
contact Texas Fair Labor Standards Act Lawyer Jason Coomer via
e-mail or use our online
contact form.
Fair Labor Standards Act Claims
Fair Labor Standards Act cases fall into
two main types of Fair Labor Standards Act Claims including
misclassification cases and off-the-clock cases. These FLSA claims usually involve a large employer taking money
out of the pockets of a large number of employees. The
types of employees that have recently filed Fair Labor
Standards Act claims include
computer professionals, brokers, funeral directors, mortgage
consultants, store managers, coffee shop managers, insurance
adjusters, assembly line workers, oil field workers, construction
workers, restaurant managers, and health care workers.
Misclassification Fair Labor
Standards Act Claims
(Failure to Pay Overtime Claims)
Misclassification Fair Labor Standards
Act Claim cases involve employees
who are treated as exempt from overtime pay and who are not paid
overtime. Usually these employees are paid a fixed
salary for all of their hours worked, but sometimes they
might be paid commissions, by the job, or by the piece.
The most common exemptions are what are called the White
Collar Exemptions that misclassify administrative and executive
employees. In misclassified White Collar Exemption cases including
administrative and executive employees such as low level
managers and adjusters, the burden of proof
on the exemption issue is on the employer (not the
plaintiff/employee) at trial. These cases are common
in the financial services industry (e.g. loan officers,
insurance adjusters, stock brokers, etc.). Other
common Fair Labor Standards Act Claims include violations
that occur in the health care recruiting industry, where
large employers attempt to avoid paying overtime by
misclassifying health care workers.
Off-the-Clock Fair Labor
Standards Act Claims
(Failure to Pay for Work Done Claims)
Off-the-clock cases involve non-exempt
(usually hourly paid) employees who are required or
permitted by their employer to do work that benefits the
employer, but for which the time is not captured and for
which the employees are not paid. Common examples of
this would be employees coming in before their scheduled
shift start time, working during an unpaid lunch break, or
staying after their scheduled shift end time. In other
words, employees that doing work for which they are not
paid. Off-the-clock cases usually involve relatively small
amounts of time spent each day working off the clock (e.g.
15-20 minutes), but the damages add up when you have a large
workforce and the non compensated work occurs over a long
period of time. Common examples of these cases are in
industrial or production environments where employers have
large workforces and the employer requires preparatory work
that is not compensated. Companies operating large call
centers are often also frequent violators of the
off-the-clock Fair Labor Standards Act.
Fair Labor Standards Act Lawyers
Because of the size of Fair Labor
Standards Act Claims many Fair Labor
Standards Act Lawyers work together in large
litigation teams. As such, Fair Labor Standards Act
Lawyer, Jason Coomer, will work with other Fair Labor Standards Act Lawyers
throughout Texas and the United States on Fair Labor
Standards Act Claims. Working with other Fair Labor
Standards Act Lawyers allows Jason Coomer to create
litigation teams that can work to defeat large and powerful
employers who are unfairly taking money from employees
through misclassification Fair Labor Standards Act Claims
and off the clock Fair Labor Standards Act Claims.
Jason Coomer is an experienced litigator
that is well versed in the law and familiar with the use of
multimedia technology in complicated litigation. He is a former Chair of the Council
Chairs for the State Bar of Texas leading all other section
Chairs including the
Chairs of the Business Law Section, Corporate Counsel
Section, and the Real Estate,
Probate, & Trust Section. He is also a former Chair of the
Computer & Technology Section of the State Bar of Texas as
well as former Chair of several Technology Committees for
several bar associations. He has been a Speaker at
several State Bar of Texas Continuing Legal Education
Seminars including the Annual Meeting, Bar Tech, and the
Advance Personal Injury Seminar. He has spoken on the
use of technology in litigation as well as has been
published in the Texas Bar Journal and Texas Realtor
Magazine on technology and legal issues.
Texas
Fair Labor Standards Act Lawyer, Jason Coomer handles
complex litigation including large employment law claims
that arise out of misclassification Fair Labor Standards Act
Claims and off the clock Fair Labor Standards Act Claims.
He represents clients through negotiations, arbitrations, mediations, and
trials. If you need a Fair Labor Standards Act lawyer to advise you on
a Fair Labor Standards Act claim,
contact Texas Fair Labor Standard Act Lawyer Jason Coomer.
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