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The Wage and Hour Division enforces over 13 laws, most notably the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Family Medical Leave Act. [3] In FY18, WHD recovered $304,000,000 in back wages for over 240,000 workers and followed up FY19, with a record-breaking $322,000,000 for over 300,000 workers.
The federal minimum wage applies in states with no state minimum wage or a minimum wage lower than the federal rate (column titled "No state MW or state MW is lower than $7.25."). Some of the state rates below are higher than the rate on the main table above. That is because the main table does not use the rate for cities or regions.
Federal investigators found nearly a dozen children to be working dangerous, overnight shifts at Seaboard Triumph Foods' pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa, the Department of Labor announced.
Now the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has recovered $245,509 in back wages for six servers and 12 cooks who worked for Los Mariachis amid the labor violations, according to a ...
The Employment Standards Administration (ESA) was the largest agency within the U.S. Department of Labor.Its four subagencies enforced and administered laws governing legally mandated wages and working conditions, including child labor, minimum wages, overtime pay, and family and medical leave; equal employment opportunity in businesses with federal contracts and subcontracts; workers ...
It’s a common method, but it can result in inaccurate payroll, time theft, and even labor law violations. After all, wage and hour laws require business owners to keep accurate employee time ...
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.It is responsible for the administration of federal laws governing occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services, and occasionally, economic statistics.
A federal judge has granted sanctions against the operator of hospitality businesses in the Milwaukee and Oshkosh areas for failing to ccoperate with a U.S. Department of Labor wage and hours ...