Some drug rehabilitation center patients sued for, get this, unpaid overtime. And they may win!
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is the federal wage and hour law that protects all covered workers from...
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This is not a drill. A new, federal overtime proposal will cost employers $1.2 billion.
For the first time in four years, the U.S. Department of Labor plans to increase the minimum salary level...
If your company rounds employee start and stop times, you may want to read this. (Also, if you like Ratt.)
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Why might the Phillie Phanatic get paid for the time it takes to get into costume at the ballpark?
By Terry Foote – I took this photograph while attending a Spring Training game, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link Because...
Here’s why so many employers make a mess of the overtime rules.
Employment lawyers often quip that they could walk into a workplace and spot at least one violation of the...
Holy hell! The Department of Labor apparently caught an employer using a fake priest to get employees to confess workplace sins.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, “federal wage and hour investigators have seen corrupt employers try all kinds...
A company paid an employee’s final paycheck in about 91,500 oily pennies. Now, it owes 4,473,418 more.
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When employees claim that your company failed to pay their overtime, you win if your company does this.
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to pay covered nonexempt workers overtime pay at a rate not less...
A new bill in Congress aims to restore OVERTIME protections for employees to “HISTORIC LEVELS.”
Federal law requires most companies to pay minimum wage and overtime pay for employees unless they qualify for an exemption. Employees...