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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...

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...

$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...

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

Hiring and Wage and Hour Law in Washington

Washington employers with 15 or more employees, including at least one Washington-based employee, must disclose the wage scale, salary range or fixed wage, and a general descriptio...

Washington Arbitration Agreements Are Failing Employers in Wage and Hour Cases

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

What Home Care Workers Should Know About New York’s Wage Parity Act

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...

Fourth Circuit Vacates Wage-and-Hour Class Certification Due to Existence of Individualized Inquiries Despite Uniform Po...

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

Connecticut Joins the Wage Transparency Bandwagon: Demystifying Pay Codes and Job Posting Compliance

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...

Uber Eats Agrees to Pay Nearly $4.4M to Resolve Wage Violations

Federal and state laws tend to dominate compliance discussions, but local ordinances carry serious financial consequences, too. Case in point: The City of Seattle’s Office of Labor...

Trader Joe’s Reaches $12.47M California Wage and Hour Settlement

Trader Joe’s has agreed to pay $12.47 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit alleging violations of California’s wage and hour laws.  According to the complaint, Trader...

DOL Updates H-2A Wage Rates for Non-Range Occupations

Winery Compliance: Payroll, HR and Labor Law Essentials

Compensable Travel Time: What Two New DOL Opinion Letters Mean for Employers [Video]

What employers should know about key developments this week: DOL Opinion Letter FLSA2026-9: The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) evaluated several r...

DOL’s Wage and Hour Division Includes 8 Proposed Rules on 2026 Agency Rules List

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...