Former DOES Employee Sues Agency For Hundreds of Hours of Unpaid Overtime
In October 2021, Washington City Paper interviewed managing attorney Justin Zelikovitz about representing a former employee of the Department of Employment Services, the agency that maintains an Office of Wage-Hour Compliance tasked with recovering unpaid wages for employees wronged by their employers:
“This is definitely one of the most ironic cases I’ve had to file over the last decade,” says DCWageLaw attorney Justin Zelikovitz. He’s representing Andre Chisolm, who the complaint says worked at DOES for 14 years. “Suing the agency that is responsible for enforcing D.C.’s overtime laws for, of all things, a failure to pay overtime.”