Many Companies have a rule that workers cannot talk to each other about how much money they are paid. But if the Company is big enough to be covered by the National Labor Relations Act (and most private businesses are), a rule forbidding employees from talking about pay is ILLEGAL. Both u...

Restaurants regularly cheat tipped employees out of wages. In an effort to control labor costs, restaurants sometimes shave overtime hours or require employees to work off the clock. One of the more frequent violations is improper tip pooling.Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, most employers are us...