Protect the Wages You Have Earned with the Top-Rated Vaught Firm, LLC

Allen Vaught has been a licensed attorney in Texas for over 28 years. He has significant state and federal employment law experience, including jury and bench trials and arbitrations. Allen is located in Dallas but represents clients in most parts of Texas. His areas of practice include:

Unpaid overtime wages including:

• Off-the-clock work,
• Misclassification of employees as "exempt" from FLSA overtime wage provisions,
• Independent contractor misclassification,
• Unpaid travel time,
• Failure to include bonus pay, hazard pay, retention pay, or commissions in overtime wage calculations, and
• Improper meal breaks deductions and unpaid short breaks.

Unpaid tip issues including:

• Improper tip pooling,
• Tips being shared with managers, supervisors, or the employer,
• Tip credit paid employees having to pay for uniforms, TABC licenses, food handler licenses, register shortages, customer order issues, etc. from their wages or tips, and
• Tip theft.

Unpaid Last Paycheck

Retaliation/Wrongful Termination for making complaints protected by the FLSA or Texas Nurse Whistleblower Statute.

 An AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell means that organization has determined that the attorney has reached the highest of professional excellence and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity.   For more than 130 years, Martindale-Hubbell has been evaluating attorneys for their strong legal ability and high ethical standards through a Peer Review Rating system.