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wage and compensation cases affect all
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types of employees from an hourly worker
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who’s being denied their tips to a chief
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executive officer who’s being denied a
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bonus at the end of the year and the
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nice thing about these cases is that
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like all other areas of law the law
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applies to everybody equally
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the waiter who’s denied her tips has the
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same rights to wages as the CEO who’s
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denied her bonus and we’re able to use
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the same laws for both of them one of
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the most interesting things about wage
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and compensation law is that they often
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lend themselves to what we call class
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actions where one person my client comes
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forward on behalf of many other people
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so an individual who’s been denied their
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wages may think there are only a few
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hundred or a few thousand dollars at
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stake here no lawyer would be interested
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but not true because if the employer has
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done this to a lot of people we may be
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able to address it for the whole group
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and therefore we are able to get
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involved we’re able to get compensation
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for our clients