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FLSA Compliance Guide 2026: Wage and Hour Rules for HR

The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division recovered more than $259 million in back wages for nearly 177,000 employees in fiscal year 2025, the most since 2019. The lion’s sh...

Wage + Hour Compliance in Healthcare: Particular Problems, Practical Solutions [Video]

Unpaid Overtime, Illegal Tip Pools, Child Labor Violations: Employer Pays $718K

A restaurant chain has paid $618,666 in back wages to 779 employees and an additional $100,000 in penalties after the Department of Labor (DOL) found wage and child labor violation...

DOL: Restaurant Owes 31 Workers More Than $732K in Overtime, Minimum Wages

Paying employees a “monthly salary” doesn’t automatically shield employers from wage and hour compliance obligations required under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), as...

$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...

Off the Clock, On the Hook? Lidl Faces Wage Claims Over Employee Waiting Time

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

1. Working Hours, Overtime, and Leave Structures

 1. Working Hours, Overtime, and Leave StructuresDaily Work Hour Flexibility: The OSHWC Code retains the standard 8-hour workday but provides flexibility to modify daily working ho...

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

DOL Secures Court Order Requiring New Jersey Employer to Pay Back Wages, Damages to Workers Denied Overtime Pay

The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and final order in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey that requires drywall installer P&B Parti...

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

Baristas Awarded $1.86M Over Employer’s Cash-Pay Scheme

Informal cash-pay practices leave wage payments and hours worked outside normal payroll controls. Case in point: A Washington state court ordered Alan Tagle and Tagle & Partner...

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...

Tips, Meal Breaks, and Volunteer Work: DOL Issues Smorgasbord of Opinion Letters

October 7, 2026

DOL scraps plan to remove decades-old wage-and-hour guidance from federal regulations; New York enacts personnel records access law; Starbucks loses bid to dismiss Workers United t...

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...

Winery Compliance: Payroll, HR and Labor Law Essentials

Consent Judgment Orders California-Based Home Appliance Company to Pay $800K to 339 Employees Denied Overtime Pay

Coway USA Inc. has entered into a consent judgment with the U.S. Department of Labor that requires the home appliance company to pay $400,000 in back wages and an equal amount in d...

Recent FLSA Opinion Letters Shed Light on Tip Pools and Lunch Breaks

The United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (DOL) recently issued two Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) opinion letters that are worth a look for employers address...

Independent Contractors or Employees? New Court Ruling Focuses on Control

Misclassifying employees as independent contractors can leave employers facing significant wage-and-hour liability.  DMV Protection LLC is a security service company that provides...

14-minute walk to break area didn’t necessarily create FLSA violations, DOL says

The department weighed in on several wage-and-hour questions in a trio of opinion letters made public Tuesday.

DOL Opinion Letters Clarify Rules on Meal Breaks, Tip Pooling, and Employee Volunteering

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division recently issued three opinion letters addressing meal periods, tip pooling, and volunteer arrangements under the Fair La...

Florida Firefighters File FLSA Suit Over Failure to Include Incentive Pay in OT and Retaliation

Fourteen current and former firefighters with the Pace Fire Rescue District in Florida have filed suit alleging the district violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by failing to inc...

Wake-Up Call—L.A. County’s Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance Is in Effect