What a Wage Claim Is Actually Worth (Run the Numbers)

Take a worker shorted 5 hours of overtime weekly at $20/hour: that’s $150/week, $7,800/year in straight liability. Add interest, Labor Code 203 waitin…

Take a worker shorted 5 hours of overtime weekly at $20/hour: that’s $150/week, $7,800/year in straight liability. Add interest, Labor Code 203 waiting-time penalties, and 226 pay-stub penalties, and a three-year claim clears $30,000 without breaking a sweat.

Employers settle these. Quietly and quickly.

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Author: timothymccandless

I have spent most of my professional life helping people who were being taken advantage of by systems they did not fully understand.

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