Minimum Wage & Unpaid Wages Litigation
Enforcing Statutory Pay Rights for Every Worker—Regardless of Legal Status
Every worker in America is entitled to be paid fairly for every hour worked. Non-exempt workers are guaranteed a statutory minimum wage rate under the federal law, the Fair Labor Standards Act, which are often supplemented by state labor laws with a higher state minimum wage rate. Yet across restaurants, construction sites, nail salons, supermarkets, and delivery services, employers routinely exploit workers by paying fixed daily or monthly cash rates that fall far below the law.
At Troy Law, PLLC, we have represented hundreds of workers in federal courts nationwide to recover the full pay they earned, plus if applicable, liquidated damages and interest.
Common Employer Violations We Fight
- Paying Below Statutory Minimums: Paying flat daily cash rates (e.g., $50 to $80 for a 12-hour shift) that break down to far less than the legal hourly minimum.
- Illegal Paycheck Deductions: Forcing workers to pay out of pocket for uniforms, work aprons, bicycles, delivery scooters, or job tools without reimbursement.
- Shorting Hours and Payroll Cash Fraud: Underreporting actual hours worked on paystubs or paying a portion of wages in unrecorded cash to evade labor laws.
- Unlawful Fines & Shortages: Forcing workers to pay for walkouts, broken glassware, register shortages, or unpaid customer bills.
- Worried about your immigration status?
- About not having filed a tax return?
- About not being able to afford to sue?
If you answered yes to any or all of the three questions, you are not alone.
It may surprise you that your answers to these questions DO NOT affect your eligibility to sue and win compensatory and liquidated damages from your current and/or former employer.
You are not alone. Federal labor laws protect all workers regardless of immigration status or tax filing history. Under federal law, when an employer fails to keep accurate time records, the court relies on your credible testimony to calculate what you are owed. We know the tricks employers pull—such as denying you worked there or forging signatures—and we know how to defeat them in court.