Is your employer depriving you of the wages you are rightfully owed?

You might be entitled to compensation.

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If your employer is depriving you of the wages you are rightfully owed, or is improperly  handling your wages, you should contact a lawyer. Fill out the form above to schedule a free consultation and case review. A wage law attorney at Hodges & Foty L.L.P. will fight to ensure that you receive all that you are owed.

Every employee deserves to be paid properly for their labor. If you are being cheated out of your wages, or suspect that something doesn't quite add up, contact an unpaid wages lawyer at Hodges & Foty for a free consultation. We will review your pay stubs and wage information to make sure you're receiving the wages to which you are eligible.

Hodges & Foty principal office is located in Houston, Texas.

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The wage lawyers at Hodges & Foty never represent employers. Born and raised in working class families, we know what it's like to earn your own keep. We don't agree with corporate titans who treat their employees like expendable commodities. We fight for the underdog, for the employee, for YOU - the worker who has been wrongfully cheated out of your wages.

Employers can deprive their workers of hard-earned wages each year. Whether or not this is intentional, every employee deserves to be paid properly for their labor. If you are being cheated out of your wages, or suspect that something doesn't quite add up, contact a unpaid wages lawyer at Hodges & Foty for a free consultation. We will review your pay stubs and wage information to make sure you're receiving the wages to which you are eligible.

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The NEW 2020 California Employment Law broadens rights for Employees

In 2019, the California Supreme Court issued a decision which expanded the rights of workers in California.  In the Dynamex case, the California Supreme Court issued a decision that makes many workers who were previously classified as independent contractors now employees of companies.  That means that those workers could be entitled to additional wages and benefits.

After the California Supreme Court’s decision was issued, the California Legislature passed a law making Dynamex apply.  The law is known as AB 5.  AB 5 makes it harder for businesses to classify workers as independent contractors by codifying and expanding the so-called “ABC Test” established by Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court of Law Angeles, a case decided by the California Supreme Court in April 2018.

Under the “ABC” test, businesses can classify their workers as contractors only if they can satisfy three conditions: 

• the worker is free from the company’s control;
  
• the worker performs work that is outside the company’s main business, and
  
• the worker normally performs work in an independent business or trade that is in the same vein as the work she or he is performing for the company.
  

Many individuals working in the real estate industry may now be entitled to unpaid wages and benefits.  In fact, real estate appraisers are routinely classified as independent contractors while working for banks that do not pay them overtime wages, reimburse them for their expenses, health insurance, 401k benefits, and other benefits and wages.

If you were classified as an independent contractor while working as a real estate appraiser, you could be entitled to wages, penalties, and attorneys fees.