The Wage and Hour Division released an analysis of its 2025 data, also drawing attention to an updated video series on the ...

The Labor Department assessed nearly $318 million in back pay and penalties from employers accused of minimum wage, overtime, ...

More than 4,300 New Jersey workers are owed more than $6 million in back wages, federal labor officials announced on Tuesday. The back wages, totaling $6,028,660, was recovered by the U.S. Department ...

Nearly $1 million in back wages are owed to Indiana workers who have failed to claim them, federal officials say. The U.S. Department of Labor says $987,181 in wages recovered by its Wage and Hour ...

If you are owed back wages, the U.S. Department of Labor might be able to help you. The WOW online tool provides workers a quick and easy way to verify if they are eligible to claim wages an employer ...

PROVIDENCE – More than 1,500 Rhode Island workers are owed a total of $2.5 million in back wage, and just in time for Christmas, the U.S. Department of Labor wants to put it in their hands. The money, ...

Healthcare staffing agencies in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania that denied employees overtime wages are on the hook for $2.4 million in back wages and damages. Employees were not paid the required ...

At the heart of this process is the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 (GEFTA), a bipartisan safeguard ensuring “all federal employees shall receive pay for the period of the lapse in ...

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