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If any of the following have happened to you during course of employment, you have a high risk of having your wage rights violated.

• You are required to attend pre-shift meetings before you clock in;
• You don’t get paid for driving time in the middle of your work day;
• Your paycheck is less than you actually earned; 
• Your paycheck bounces; 
• You don’t clock in until after you have logged on to your computer; 
• You don’t clock in until after you change into your uniform; 
• You don’t get paid while you wait for your boss to give you your assignments for the day;
• You are paid an hourly rate, but do not receive overtime compensation;  
• Your company had you sign a document agreeing that you won’t receive overtime; 
• Your company deducts your overtime from your commissions and/or bonuses;
• You are paid half time for your overtime;
• Your company tells you that you are ineligible for overtime compensation;
• You’re paid a salary most weeks, but when you work less than normal, your employer reduces your salary;
• You’re paid a salary, but you do NOT
  1. ​directly supervise 3 or more employees;
  2. have a significant amount of independent discretion and judgment as to matters of significance, to the business administration; 
  3. and/or have a professional degree, such as engineering, accounting, law, medicine, etc…, and actually use your degree for your job;

• You are paid a salary, and overtime, but receive less than time and a half for your overtime;
• You are a salaried employee, but have less than 7 years of experience in your job;
• You recieve deductions for lunch breaks and rest breaks even if you don’t take the break;
• You preform work before, or after you have clocked in, regardless of whether your employer allows it or requires it;
• You come in to work on your day off;
• You are paid for less than the time you spend actually working or preparing for work;
• You are required to change in and out of a uniform on the company property but don’t get paid for that time;
• You don’t get paid for the time that it takes you to walk from the locker room to your workstation 
• You are a nursing mother, and your employer does not allow you to take a break to express milk whenever you need to;
• You are a nursing mother, and your employer does not provide you a private location, that is not a bathroom, to express milk whenever you need to;
• Your employer pays your overtime compensation from the commissions and/or bonuses you earn;
• You earn commissions but receive no additional amounts for overtime compensation;
• You earn performance or profit sharing bonuses, and you do not get paid additional amounts for overtime compensation;
• Your employer calls you a 1099 employee or independent contractor, but 
• your employer controls many aspects of your work;
• Your employer calls you a 1099 employee or independent contractor, but you are not able to negotiate your pay;
• Your employer calls you a 1099 employee or independent contractor, but you are working for the company indefinitely, instead of on a per-job basis;
• Your employer calls you a 1099 employee or independent contractor, but you have no risk of serious loss if a project you are working on doesn’t get done right;
• You receive breaks of 20 minutes or less but don’t get paid for them;
• You receive breaks of 20 minutes or more, and don’t get paid for them, but you still perform work during the break;
• You have an unpaid lunch break, but you have to be at your job performing work during your break;
• ​Your employer takes lunch breaks out of your wages even though you rarely take a lunch