Should I Hire a Lawyer?

Transcription: Hey everybody, Attorney Scott Perlmuter here today to answer some of your common wage and hour questions and one of the most common questions we get is, “Can I sue my employer if I’m not being paid properly?” or, “Do I need a lawyer to help me if I’m not being paid overtime pay?” So, basically, wage and hour issues can be very complicated, there are two ways to go about pursuing them. One would be, you hire an attorney. An attorney can pursue your claim in either federal or state court, depending on what the case is about exactly. Or, you can go to the Department of Labor and the Department of Labor has a wage and hour division that will address some common wage and hour issues. The nice thing about hiring an attorney in these cases is that the laws that give rise to most unpaid wage claims have a provision in them that you can recover your attorney fees separate from what goes to you. So, if you have any questions about, “What’s going on with my pay? Is it proper? Do I have a cause of action, a claim that I can pursue against my employer related to the way that I’m being paid?” The best thing you can do is to give me a call, (216)-308-1522 is the phone number here at Tittle & Perlmuter, or, you can go to one of our websites. We have a website that’s JUST devoted to wage and hour issues and probably has the answer to your question, which is, overtimelawyersohio.com or you can go to our main website which is tittlelawfirm.com, also has a lot of information about wage and hour issues. So if you have any questions, just reach out to me, Scott Perlmuter. Thank you very much!