Your employer must pay you at least minimum wage. If you want to bring a lawsuit, you could get your attorney's fees paid for by the employer and the employer could be liable for twice the amount of minimum wage times the number of hours you worked but did not receive any pay if you can establish the employer's refusal to pay was willful, which it sounds like it was in your case.
Answered on Mar 27th, 2013 at 3:04 PM