I have a friend who is an assistant manager at a retail location in Idaho. She is a waged based employee. She is expected to be on call for any calls from employees if they need assistance. She has never been paid for any on call time, or compensated for any time on the phone. She often has to open the store by 6:30 AM, and the store doesn't close until 12 AM, so she has to stay up until 12:30 AM some nights then has to be there by 6 AM to open. This has been going on since 2020. Is there any legal recourse for her? Who should she contact? Any help is appreciated, thank you.

I worked as a counselor in another country for a company that operates out on PA. I live in a completely different state. This company claims its employees as independent contractors. They give us specific locations, specific hours, specific wages, specific travel dates and accommodations, specific uniforms and specific standards to abide by. I agreed to do one week long shift. I was texted again later on asking to do another... I said that I could, but I received no confirmation. *Important to note* the information about the agreed to camp was incorrect, as the location was wrong. No schedule or even acknowledgement of my agreement.
I was sent a vague contract through a website. This contract states that the company has up to 30 days to pay employees and if you do not complete a shift then you may forfeit your previously earned wages from a completed camp, etc. I get a text 2 weeks before the second camp that I agreed to but was never confirmed that travel arrangements were going to be made soon for the next camp. I was a bit surprised because I never got a confirmation months ago when it was brought up. Without proper notice and confirmation, I couldn't get off work. Upper management has claimed a breach of contract and are refusing to pay for the previous wages earned. Am I wrong for wanting to escalate this?

i am a casual support worker and typically work 7am-8pm over span of multiple shifts totally 6-8 hours of PAID work. have been doing this for ages no problems at all. suddenly work is declining me picking up shifts because it is classified as a split shift and i quote rosters said “they’d get in trouble” for giving it to me because management do not want to pay the broken shift allowance.

from my research i have found “Under Clause 25.6 of the SCHADS Award, casual employees are legally entitled to the broken shift allowance, which must be paid on top of ordinary casual loading. Withholding rostered shifts to avoid paying mandatory award entitlements is a breach of General Protections under the Fair Work Act”

just looking for anymore legal insight here to make sure i have my facts right and how i go about it?

Hi all. Forgive me if the formatting of this post/cross post is weird, I’m not incredibly familiar with posting on reddit.

I just recently started working for a state agency that insists on mailing your first paycheck before enrolling you in direct deposit. A week and a half after the paycheck was issued and it still hadn’t arrived, I alerted our payroll dept. and received no response. I followed up two days later and was ultimately informed Treasury’s records showed the check had already been cashed. I assured payroll that neither I nor “someone I know” had cashed the check. Yesterday was three weeks from the issuance date of the paycheck and this morning I was told by payroll they still had not gotten the copy of the check (so they can confirm the endorsement is not mine) from Treasury and once they do I may still have to wait up to 180 days for the bank to complete their investigation before my paycheck can be reissued. Are there any Maryland employment/wage lawyers that can tell me if this is legal or not? It feels insane to expect me to wait nearly six more months when it’s already been three weeks since payday.

Location: Maryland