Why Choose Venardi Zurada for a Wage and Hour Case?

At Venardi Zurada, we’ve done many, many wage and hour cases. A wage and hour case is just a shorthand way of saying it’s a case that implicates the labor code.

Specifically, things like overtime violations, working off the clock, not being able to take meal breaks, and not being able to take rest breaks. There are some technical statutory things that govern the payment of wages and the work conditions of employees, so we call those wage and hour cases. And at Venardi Zurada, what we do is we typically combine wage and hour with something else in our case. We find that some of the best cases are cases that involve a multitude of violations.

So, it might be a wage and hour case combined with retaliation, or the wage and hour case might have a component of harassment or discrimination. For example, if the person is an undocumented immigrant and while they’re being paid less or not being paid what they’re supposed to be paid, the employer is also saying things about their race or their ethnicity.

We extensively litigate wage and hour cases. We’re very good at it. And we also look for opportunities to discover wage and hour violations together with harassment and discrimination violations, together with retaliation. We find that oftentimes, if an employer is violating wage and hour laws, they are highly likely to also discriminate, harass, and often retaliate against an employee.