Jay Trucks and Associates Legal Blog

Wage, hour and overtime violations are committed daily by employers nationwide who are either unfamiliar with or do not respect Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations.

Wage, hour and overtime issues are complex, but the law puts the burden on employers to make sure their workers are fully compensated under the law. The most common violations include failure to pay overtime, denial of meal or rest breaks, minimum wage violations and delayed payment of compensation.

Some employees are exempt from receiving overtime pay, such as certain administrative, executive or professional employees, but some employers deliberately misclassify an employee as exempt from overtime pay to deny them their entitled compensation.

With very few exemptions workers are entitled to the current minimum wage, an uninterrupted, unpaid meal break of thirty minutes during an eight hour work-period and two uninterrupted, paid, ten minute rest breaks for every four hours worked. Thousands of workers have been affected by lost wages due to unpaid overtime, unpaid meal breaks and being forced to work "off the clock". Jay Trucks & Associates, PC are experienced attorneys in wage, hour and overtime violation law who can assert your legal rights and provide you with a remedy for your situation.

If you believe your employer has violated wage, hour or overtime laws, please contact the law offices of Jay Trucks & Associates, PC serving Flint, Clare, Saginaw, Traverse City and Lansing, Michigan today.

In addition to the difficult decision to place your loved one in a nursing home is the importance of making sure other aspects of their care are in order. This includes estate planning, will, and power of attorney. By ensuring these areas are clear, you can protect your relative from potential nursing home abuse.

Estate Planning

Estate planning are the plans your family member makes in the event he or she ever becomes too ill to inform you of their wishes or dies. Financial decisions, medical treatment, durable power of attorney, and wills and trusts are all part of estate planning. These documents will make clear what your relative wants prior to entering a nursing home with regard to person and property.

While you may have some knowledge about what your family member wants prior to entering a nursing home, documents that state those wishes explicitly will help in specific circumstances. These documents are called advance directives. For situations that are unexpected, it is best that durable power of attorney is granted by your relative. This allows the attorney to make decisions regarding treatment in the event of worsening health or other emergencies.

Financial Decisions

Financial abuse and exploitation is one of the sad hallmarks of the broad umbrella of nursing home abuse. By having a written will before entering a nursing home, property is protected with a trust. This is especially important if your loved one can no longer manage his or her finances, and protects them from nursing home employees who may try to gain access. By simply having a trust, your relative may become less of a target for financial exploitation.

If you would like to speak to an attorney about estate planning or have a relative who has become the victim of nursing home abuse in the Flint, Lansing, or Saginaw, Michigan area, please contact the attorneys at Jay Trucks & Associates, P.C. today.

Individual home owners, land owners, and commercial businesses all have a responsibility to keep the public safe. For example, if you own a home, you are responsible for making sure your sidewalk is shoveled in the winter. Premises liability is a term used to describe the laws that hold business owners and homeowners accountable for the safety of their property.

If you are a homeowner and someone is hurt while on your property, you can be held accountable. One important fact to know is that it is not necessary for you to have invited that person onto your property in order for you to be held accountable for his or her injury. It must be shown that the homeowner knew about the condition and failed to fix it, or that the problem had existed for so long, the homeowner reasonably should have known about it and failed to fix it.

If you were on someone else's property and were injured, you can hold either the homeowner or business owner responsible, and you may be entitled to receive damages covering your lost wages, medical bills, and numerous other expenses.

Premises liability laws are not as easy and straightforward as they sound, and each and every case is different and unique. The first thing you should do, however, even if you are unsure whether or not you have a case, is to contact an attorney.

If you live in Flint, Saginaw, Lansing or Traverse City, Michigan, and have been injured on someone else's property, or if someone has been injured on your property, please contact the experienced premises liability attorneys at Jay Trucks & Associates, PC today to schedule your initial consultation.