Unemployment does not affect ones ability to make an overtime claim. Unemployment can happen to anyone at anytime. If you have been laid off or lost your job for any reason, it is time to think about money and benefits that are due you. Filing for unemployment benefits is a good start, but don't miss out on collecting Unpaid Overtime for up to the last three years of your employment. You do not need to be eligible for unemployment to make a claim for unpaid overtime. The Ogletree Abbott Law Firm does not handle Claims for Unemployment. However, you should call us if you have not been paid time-and-a-half for any hours you worked over 40 hours per week, even if it's called "straight time" or you are called "salaried."

Right now you may be thinking, "I didn't think I was entitled to overtime pay." Are you basing this on what your employer told you

or what other workers told you? What if your employer was lying and the other workers didn't know better? We have learned that most workers that are owed unpaid overtime wrongly believe they were not entitled to it.

If you worked more than forty hours in a given week and were not paid time-and-a-half for all hours in excess of forty, your employer may owe you additional wages. Regardless of whether you are entitled to unemployment benefits, you could have another, large paycheck coming to you. Unemployment program requirements vary from state to state but the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which determines eligibility to overtime, is a federal law that covers you no matter where you work and live.

In the last three years, if you worked more than forty hours in a week, at any employer, call us at 1-800-779-4950 and ask if you can collect unpaid overtime wages. It won't cost you a penny to get the answer. You can also email us at Info@OgletreeAbbott.com. You pay us nothing except a percentage of the settlement. If there is no settlement, you owe us nothing. Call and speak to one of our knowledgeable attorneys. They have the experience and are easy to talk to, and your conversation is confidential.

You can use the money; they owe it to you, but you need to make one free call to get things started. Call the Ogletree Abbott Law Firm today and see what you've been missing. Call us at 1-800-779-4950 and let us help you if are unemployed and entitled to overtime pay.