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Overtime Pay Violations: When Employers Improperly Deny Overtime Compensation

Overtime pay violations represent among the most common wage and hour issues affecting American workers. Various employer practices including misclassification, off-the-clock work,...

Payroll Scheme to Avoid Overtime Backfires: $457K Payout

What happens when an employee works 50 hours per week, but payroll makes it look like 25 hours for each of two companies to avoid overtime premiums? That was the setup allegedly de...

Are You Being Paid for Every Minute You Work? What NJ Warehouse Workers Need to Know

New Back Wages Settlement: San Diego Deli to Pay $500K

A San Diego deli will pay more than $500,000 in back wages after a federal investigation found it paid workers a flat daily rate that fell short of minimum wage and overtime requir...

Wage Law Still Runs on a Punch Clock. Work Doesn’t.

An employee closes her laptop at six p.m. After dinner, she answers a few work emails from the couch. A manager texts her a question after the kids are asleep. She responds when th...

How Does a Clawback Clause Affect Overtime Calculations? What Payroll Should Know

Not every sign-on bonus belongs in the overtime calculation – and a recent federal case out of Virginia shows why. A fired employee filed a lawsuit against his former employer, cla...

US Department of Labor finds urgent care employer failed to pay over $113K in owed wages to workers for required orienta...

ATLANTA – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $113,199 in back wages after an investigation found a Richmond Hill urgent care facility failed to pay its workers for hours wo...

$113K FLSA Settlement: DOL Probe Finds Retaliation, Overtime Mistakes

An urgent care facility in Georgia has agreed to pay $113,199 to resolve alleged violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). According to an investigation by the Dep...

New Wage Settlement: Worker Misclassification Leads to $243K Payout

A D.C. hospitality business will pay more than $243,000 after an investigation found worker misclassification and other wage and hour violations affecting more than 270 workers.  T...

Maine Firefighter Files Suit Over Alleged Six-Month Pay Cycle and Retaliation

A Maine firefighter has filed suit against the Town of Mount Vernon alleging the town paid its part-time firefighters only once every six months and suspended him after he complain...

Minnesota Restaurant Owes $614K in Back Wages

The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $613,037 in back wages for 46 workers after a federal investigation found a Minnesota restaurant failed to pay minimum and overtime wages...

Large SC Restaurant Chain Pays $700,000 in Back Wages, Fines from DOL

A South Carolina restaurant chain has paid more than $718,000 in back wages and penalties after federal investigators found that the company had failed to pay overtime to workers a...

Fringe Benefit, Payroll Reporting Violations Cost Contractor $67K in Back Wages

An investigation into a public works project in Lake County turned into a costly lesson on certified payroll compliance. The Illinois Department of Labor’s (IDOL) Wage Transparency...

NC’s Labor Department recovers more than $3.5 million in unpaid wages, setting new record

“When you put in the work, you deserve to be paid every single penny that you’ve been promised.” North Carolina Labor Commissioner Luke Farley announced Tuesday that his department...

Appeals Court Upholds Employer’s OT Calculations: What Payroll Got Right

The Seventh Circuit held that a Wisconsin employer properly included certain pay differentials and incentive premiums in employees’ regular rate of pay before calculating the overt...

Washington Arbitration Agreements Are Failing Employers in Wage and Hour Cases

Seventh Circuit’s ‘Extra Pay’ Decision Confirms FLSA Standards Apply to Wisconsin Employer Overtime Calculations

Workers pursuing Class Action after 100 year old trucking company shutters abruptly without distributing final paychecks...

Employees of an Oregon trucking company are pursuing Class Action grievances after the company shut abruptly without properly compensating them earlier this month.  TP Freight Line...

Waldo Cafe owner owes employees unpaid wages after closure

Employees of the now-closed Waldo Cafe in Kansas City remain unpaid following the restaurant's sudden closure.

N.J. Supreme Court Holds Undocumented Workers Can Recover for Wage and Hour Violations

Skamania man sues Fla. company over withheld wages, wrongful termination

A Skamania County man is suing a Florida-based healthcare fraud-detection company for withholding wages and wrongful termination.

IRS Sheds Light on Taxation for Tips and Overtime

North Carolina Firefighter Challenges Volunteer Fire Department’s Use of FLSA 7(k) Overtime Exemption

A paid North Carolina firefighter has filed suit against his fire department claiming that because the department is a private nonprofit corporation, it is not eligible to use the...

Texas Bakery Fined $25K for Child Labor and Back Wages Violations

The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered thousands in back wages and assessed penalties after a federal investigation revealed child labor, minimum wage, and overtime violations...