New York Dairy Farm Workers Gain $150K in Unpaid Wages May 23, 2023 A settlement in New York in a wage theft case has resulted in two dairy farm workers receiving nearly $150,000...
Employers Must Pay Employees for All Hours Worked, Including Work at Home September 1, 2020 By Jim Sams The U.S. Labor Department is reminding employers that they must make a reasonable effort to keep track of all hours...
Michigan Governor Wants to Make More Workers Eligible for Overtime October 28, 2019 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is moving to make more Michigan workers eligible for overtime pay. The Democrat announced that her administration...
Trump Administration Unveils Higher Threshold to Expand Overtime Pay March 8, 2019 By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. Department of Labor issued a long-awaited proposal on Thursday to extend mandatory overtime pay to a million more...
Supporters of Overtime Hike Turn to States as Obama Rule Unlikely to Survive January 13, 2017 By Josh Eidelson With President Barack Obama’s federal overtime-pay overhaul likely to die either in court or under Republican Donald Trump, some legislators...
Judge Blocks Obama’s Overtime Pay Raise for White Collar Workers November 23, 2016 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins An Obama administration policy that would have given more white-collar workers overtime starting Dec. 1 was blocked nationwide by a...
McDonald’s to Pay $3.75 Million to California Workers for Back Pay, Damages November 1, 2016 By Daniel Wiessner McDonald’s Corp has agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it was liable for labor law violations...
Georgia City Proposes Overtime Pay Settlement with Firefighters July 17, 2015 Augusta, Ga., commissioners are proposing a settlement with firefighters who have sued the city saying they’re owed overtime pay. The...
Google Targeted in Independent Contractor Classification Dispute November 17, 2014 By Dan Levine Google was sued last week by a worker who claimed the company did not pay overtime, improperly classified him as...