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14 May 2015, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has fined the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, its operating head Lyle Jeffs, the affiliated Paragon Contractors Corp. and its officers Brian Jessop and Dale Barlow for violating the wage and hour laws in using FLDS school children and their parents to work a pecan ranch harvest. [read post]
Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division released a Field Assistance Bulletin addressing the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to use of artificial intelligence and other automated systems in the workplace. [read post]
5 Jul 2017, 7:51 am by Jourdan Day
The Wage and Hour Division will once again use Opinion Letters to provide guidance to employers and employees on various topics. [read post]
9 Jul 2012, 1:06 pm
Department of Labor's (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) initiative designed to combat wage and hour violations in the Los Angeles restaurant industry, by ensuring that employers comply to the wage and hour provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 7:04 am by Brian Hall
Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has announced a new nationwide pilot program, called the Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program, which is designed to facilitate resolution of potential overtime and minimum wage violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). [read post]
13 Jan 2014, 1:29 pm
According to San Francisco Wage and Hour Division officials, the Giants paid many workers $55 a day but worked them so many hours that their average pay rate dipped below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 1:48 pm by assoulineberlowe
Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has released a 16-page guide to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) designed to make the law more accessible to employees. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 2:49 pm
Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division press release that our Newport Beach labor and employment attorneys have been following, Levi Strauss & Co. has agreed pay over $1 million in overtime backwages to around 600 employees after the department found that the denim maker neglected to record accurate hours that employees were working in the company's payroll system--resulting in employee misclassification. [read post]
Now, as a result of an unprecedented new program initiated by the the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”), the WHD will be practically delivering potential plaintiffs to the doors of plaintiffs’ counsel — and the WHD has invited plaintiffs’ counsel to let it know if it wants a piece of the action. [read post]
22 May 2023, 12:46 pm
Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2023-2 (FAB) to provide guidance to its field staff on the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (PUMP Act) and its enforcement. [read post]
Department of Labor publicly designated Keith Sonderling as Acting Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”). [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 10:30 am
The U.S Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has announced a major coup, after a federal crackdown on illegal practices at Italian restaurants on Long Island. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 10:04 am
Labor Department (DOL) wage and hour news, Norwegian Cruise Lines has agreed to pay 2,059 employees of Norwegian's Pride of America cruise ship based in Hawaii, $526,602, after a recent investigation by the DOL's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) found the cruise line responsible for systematic violations of the minimum wage, record-keeping and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 8:21 am by Leiza Dolghih
The Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division has published answers to frequently-asked questions by employers related to COVID-19, including the following: How can businesses pay exempt & non-exempt employees for reduced work? [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 9:13 am by Robin Shea
Bloomberg BNA reported Friday evening that President Trump has nominated Cheryl Stanton of South Carolina as Administrator of the Wage Hour Division of the U.S. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 11:29 am
Department of Labor's ongoing enforcement initiative, under the Wage and Hour Division (WHD), targeting the restaurant industry in various states across the country--where comprehensive noncompliance with the FLSA's overtime, record-keeping and minimum wage provisions have been found. [read post]
Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) issued an opinion letter in November 2018 changing the Department’s position regarding whether and when an employer with tipped employees, such as a restaurant, can pay an employee a tipped wage less than the federal minimum wage. [read post]