Wages & Hours

Many thousands of people in Pennsylvania work jobs where they are tipped regularly, including wait staff, bellhops, taxi drivers, hair stylists and bartenders, to name just a few. For some, it can be a quite lucrative profession that allows them to earn more than what their employer pays them. But …

A career in the home health care industry is both rewarding and stable. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), employment for home health aides and personal care aides is expected to grow 41 percent by 2026 — much faster than other occupations.

If you work in home health …

Many jobs earn not just a wage but also other forms of earnings. Some sales jobs and other types of employment, for example, can earn workers commissions, or an amount of money based on performance. A commission is usually a percentage amount of sales and is paid at regular intervals, …

Sifting through company rules on overtime compensation is a sticky situation in which many field service technicians find themselves stuck.

In an industry where hands-on, on-call services are the expectation — not the exception — it comes as little surprise these individuals rarely operate on a neat nine-to-five. What’s more, …

Overtime refers to the time worked by an employee over 40 hours per week. According to The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), most employees must be paid 1.5 times their regular working wage for any work above 40 hours per week. In some cases, however, employers must use a …