Chris Marlborough is a class action attorney representing workers seeking wages owed to them by their employers.
The corporations call this wage and hour litigation, those on the side of the workers call it wage theft.
This blog will explore the civil and criminal legal aspects of the American wage theft crisis as well as its social, economic and moral implications.
When fashion-tech company CaaStle, Inc. shut its doors in the spring of 2025, it didn’t give its workers the advance written notice the WARN Act requires, and it didn’t pay its people what the law says they were owed. That failure is now the subject of a CaaStle WARN Act lawsuit. CaaStle furloughed hundreds of…
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New York lawmakers have passed the Wage Payment Integrity Act (S2236A /A2222A), The bill closes a loophole that has let some employers walk away from their commitment to pay workers bonuses and severance. It cleared the Senate and Assembly with strong bipartisan support and now awaits Governor Kathy Hochul’s signature. The Bonus and Severance Loophole…
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For decades, your personnel file has belonged to your employer, not to you. If a supervisor wrote something false or unfair into your record, you had no legal right to see it. You could not correct it, or even know it existed, unless you were already in a lawsuit and got it through discovery. The…
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New York workers may soon get a powerful new legal tool. It would protect their rights under the state’s wage, hour, and anti-discrimination laws. The Anti-Waiver of Employment Rights Act passed both houses of the New York Legislature on May 13, 2026. The bill is Senate Bill S4424-A, sponsored by Senator Jessica Ramos, and Assembly…
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New York’s Remedial Construction of NYLL Act, which would require courts to interpret the Labor Law liberally in favor of workers, passed the Legislature with bipartisan support and now awaits Governor Hochul’s signature after a prior veto.
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Wage theft has been and continues to be a crime in New York. However, as a result of legislation, the stakes are much higher for employers who steal wages from their workers. On September 6, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation expanding the definition of larceny to include wage theft. The Wage Theft…
Continue reading ›New York’s minimum wage just increased in many parts of New York State. The latest in a series of annual minimum wage hikes took effect Dec. 31, 2020. The minimum wage in New York differs based on the county in which the work is performed. Here are the minimum wages in New York for 2021.…
Continue reading ›New York State Minimum Wage Increases Minimum wage workers in New York will receive pay increase in 2018 in accordance with state law signed in 2016. The minimum wage is based on the county in which the employees work and within New York City, whether the employer has more than ten employees, whether they work…
Continue reading ›Yesterday, New York’s Acting Commissioner of Labor, Mario J. Musolino, issued an Order in response to the recommendations of the NY Wage Board, commissioned by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo last year. The order will raise the minimum cash wage for tipped workers from $4.90-$5.65 per hour to $7.50 per hour. The increase is expected…
Continue reading ›This morning, New York Attorney introduced the Payroll Card Act, proposed legislation regulating the use of payroll cards. Mandatory use of payroll cards has been roundly criticized by workers and numerous government agencies because of the lack of consumer choice and exposure to unfair, unavoidable, and/or hidden fees. In announced the legislation, Attorney General…
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