Law Office of Lowell J. Kuvin, LLC

06/16/2020

Yesterday was a big day for Kuvin Law. The US Supreme Court held that private employees cannot be discriminated against based upon their s*xual orientation. My office got involved in this in 2015 when my client and I cornered the federal government (with the help of the EEOC) into acknowledging that Title VII protected federal employees against s*xual orientation discrimination. The decision we received was cited by the US Supreme Court and by all of the parties involved. The next logical step was to take the law we created and for the same principle to be applied to private employees. That is what you saw yesterday. Way to go David Baldwin. You set out to change the law, and you did.

Inspired by the civil rights movement, it was decades in the making.

03/16/2020

The DOL has reported that: Salaried workers exempt from being paid overtime, if mandated by their employers to stay home, must be paid in full even if they complete only a partial week’s work. Non-exempt workers are not similarly protected. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers need only pay non-exempt employees for hours worked, regardless of whether they had been scheduled to work additional time.

10/10/2019

Increasing the hourly wage to $15/hr. had a positive effect on restaurant growth in NYC.

A new study suggests that increasing pay for restaurant workers, who make up the bulk of low-wage earners, may not harm businesses.

09/25/2019

Kuvin Law is heading to the US Supreme Court. Our decision in Baldwin v. FAA is the cornerstone of two recent opinions that held that s*xual orientation discrimination is covered by Title VII and is unlawful.

The justices must decide if a law that forbids employment discrimination based on s*x also bars discrimination based on s*xual orientation or transgender status.

08/27/2019

Working hard for our clients, because they work hard at taking care of their families.

A federal judge last Wednesday said an eight-month-old wage lawsuit against the restaurateur and salt-sprinkling social media icon Nusret Gökçe can now include every person who has worked in a tipped position at his Brickell Avenue restaurant since it opened in late 2017.

06/09/2019

We do what we do because "Wage theft is part of the business model."

The bureaucratic nightmare of holding employers accountable for wage theft is a glimpse into America's two-tiered justice system.

02/21/2019

Discrimination is against the law and at Kuvin Law we take it seriously even if your employer does not.

On March 3, 2016, Jacqueline Quinones began a job at the Dunkin' Donuts in the Perrine neighborhood of Miami. Less than two months later, after experiencing repeated racial discrimination from her coworkers, Quinones says she was unfairly terminated, sending her into a downward financial spiral that...

01/23/2019

Kuvin Law is representing the employees who were not paid properly.

Nusret Gökçe, aka Salt Bae, is getting sued for unfair labor practices by employees in both New York and Miami. The restaurateur was in hot water for posing in pictures with Nicolas Maduro and Fidel Castro.

06/08/2018

My favorite excuse: “Servers are liars, they always want more, they want more money,”

Don't ever let your employer steal from you.

Investigators at California's Division of Labor Standards Enforcement said Thursday they have cited Bay Area restaurants for more than $10 million in stolen wages. Of the $10 million in alleged wage theft, half comes from wages stolen from 133 workers at a single restaurant, Kome Japanese Seafood Bu...

05/04/2018

Law Office of Lowell J. Kuvin helps to secure a significant settlement for workers over 40 who were discriminated against by Dardan's Seasons 52.

Orlando-based Darden Restaurants has inked an agreement with the EEOC to settle allegations that its Seasons 52 restaurants discriminated against new hires who were considered too old.

03/17/2018

The laws are changing everywhere - are you getting paid properly?

Tipped workers deserve a better deal than they’re getting now.