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News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a final rule that restores the department’s ability to assess civil money penalties against employers who take tips earned by their employees , regardless of whether those violations are repeated or willful. In addition, today’s rule modifies ...
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News Release: DALLAS – An employer learned a costly lesson about skirting federal overtime laws when it gave hollow management titles to overtime eligible employees and paid them salaries for all the hours they worked. Despite the fact that the work they do made them eligible for overtime, Top Golf USA Inc. failed to pay overtime when the employees worked more than 40 hours in a workweek, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found.
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News Release: SACRAMENTO – While workers at a northern California restaurant worked hard to satisfy customers and keep the business operating throughout the pandemic, their employer intentionally failed to pay overtime wages when required, leading to costly consequences for the restaurant’s owner.
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News Release: NEW YORK – A federal judge in New York has ruled private arbitration agreements do not bind the Secretary when the U.S. Secretary of Labor is not a party. The decision now allows the U.S. Department of Labor to move forward with its lawsuit alleging that three defendants misclassified their employees as independent contractors to evade the overtime and recordkeeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a final rule that restores the department’s ability to assess civil money penalties against employers who take tips earned by their employees , regardless of whether those violations are repeated or willful. In addition, today’s rule modifies ...
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News Release: SACRAMENTO – While workers at a northern California restaurant worked hard to satisfy customers and keep the business operating throughout the pandemic, their employer intentionally failed to pay overtime wages when required, leading to costly consequences for the restaurant’s owner.
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News Release: DALLAS – An employer learned a costly lesson about skirting federal overtime laws when it gave hollow management titles to overtime eligible employees and paid them salaries for all the hours they worked. Despite the fact that the work they do made them eligible for overtime, Top Golf USA Inc. failed to pay overtime when the employees worked more than 40 hours in a workweek, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found.
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The US Labor Department published a two page proposed rule on Sept. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Sept. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a five page notice on Sept. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a three page notice on Sept. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published an eight page proposed rule on Sept. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Sept. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Sept. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Sept. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Sept. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WASHINGTON – United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh today marked the successful conclusion of the first a course of remediation under the USMCA’s Rapid Response Labor Mechanism. Workers at a General Motors facility in Silao, Mexico voted on whether to approve ...
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News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced its Veterans’ Employment and Training Service has signed a memorandum of understanding with nine organizations that have agreed to serve as partners to support VETS’ Employment Navigator and Partnership Pilot.
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News Release: COLUMBIA, SC – The operators of three South Carolina marinas found themselves afoul of the Fair Labor Standards Act recently after U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigations uncovered child labor and overtime violations.
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News Release: ORLANDO, FL – A U.S. Department of Labor investigation found an Orlando air conditioning and heating service company failed to pay workers the overtime wages they legally earned, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.