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There is dignity in work, and employees should feel at least some level of stability and comfort in their career. But when your employer denies you the pay you deserve or retaliates against you for voicing concerns, it may be time to seek legal counsel.

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  • Unpaid Overtime

    McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP successfully represents workers who are not paid when they work overtime. Unpaid overtime violations occur in every industry across the nation and in both the public and private sectors.
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  • Misclassified as OT Ineligible

    McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP has represented thousands of workers who have been wrongly classified as being exempt from receiving overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). These cases arise in all different industries and types of jobs across the country
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  • Wrong OT Rate & Overtime Pay Miscalculation

    McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP has recovered millions of dollars for hard working employees whose employer improperly calculated their overtime rate by failing to include all of the different types of pay such as meal allowances, night shift pay or premium pays
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  • Late Payment of Overtime

    McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP has successfully recovered wages on behalf of thousands of workers who faced late payments of overtime because their employers action resulted in them being paid overtime three or more weeks after the week in which the overtime was worked.
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  • Cannabis Employees’ Workplace Rights

    Unfortunately, associated labor and employment violations in the cannabis industry are on the rise. Our firm has a 50-year history of helping employees enforce their workplace rights and ensuring that they receive the pay to which they are entitled under the law.
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  • Severance & Separation Agreements

    McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP has successfully reviewed proposed severance packages on behalf of employees across all industries, from Executive Directors of multi-million dollar non-profits to senior executives in the private sector negotiating better
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  • Labor Unions

    McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP (“MSE”) is a union-side labor firm that regularly represents international and local unions and their members. In addition to serving as legal counsel to multiple public safety labor organizations, our lawyers regularly represent labor unions and their members in negotiations
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  • #METOO IN THE WORKPLACE

    MSE teamed up with the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund and the Legal Network for Gender Equity to provide victims of gender-based pay disparity, sexual harassment, and sex discrimination access to a legal support to help victims fight back against all forms of gender discrimination in the workplace.
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  • Workplace Protections for Federal Employees

    Federal employees: with this change in administration, you will have a greater ability to enforce your rights to pay and benefits, to challenge unlawful discrimination, to challenge unjust discipline, and to challenge unfair treatment at your federal workplace.
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  • Gender-Based Pay Disparity and the Equal Pay Act

    The Equal Pay Act of 1963 provides an important enforcement mechanism to challenge unlawful and discriminatory pay practices for employees in both the public and private sectors. The law mandates that employees performing substantially equal jobs for the same employer must be rewarded with equal pay
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  • Consumer Data Breach Events

    Data breaches have become a regular fixture in the headlines, most noticeably when a multinational corporation suffers a breach that affects thousands or even millions of victims. But whether someone’s personal data was compromised in a breach involving the theft of millions of credit card numbers from
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Rely on the skills and expertise of our nationally renowned team of lawyers. We are the authority on overtime pay. And we win – we’ve recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid wages and benefits for employees nationwide.

Legal Representation for All Workers

When McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP decides to take your case, it is because we believe there is an unacceptable workplace violation that has negatively impacted you or resulted in your employer paying less than what the law requires and which we have a reasonable chance of remedying. We recognize that meritorious claims should not go unremedied because of the level of a person’s resources.

To ensure accessible and available legal representation for all our clients, MSE handles cases through different forms of fee arrangements, including contingency fees, hourly fees and fixed fees.

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