Jesse Young

I've spent my entire career helping clients understand whether proper compensation was paid by an employer, and fighting to protect my client's rights. Jesse Young is a Senior Shareholder at Sommers Schwartz, PC. He represents clients in serious employment disputes, including but not limited to issues of severance negotiations, discrimination, retaliation, whistleblowing activity, employment contracts, terminations, and compliance. His clients include individuals and businesses.

As a co-founder of the firm's national wage-and-hour practice, Jesse has appeared in hundreds of wage-and-hour lawsuits and hundreds more arbitrations arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and similar state laws. In this regard, he represents clients nationwide dealing with the payment of minimum wages and/or overtime, classification of employees, "off the clock" work, meal breaks, tip pooling, donning and doffing of protective work equipment, recordkeeping, and other issues peculiar to a wide variety of industries. He is a Chapter Editor of the ABA's leading treatise on the FLSA, entitled "The Fair Labor Standards Act," and is a recurring speaker on wage-and-hour topics at The Institute of Continuing Legal Education (Michigan) and other national legal conferences.