Misclassification of employees is perhaps the biggest wage problems that most employees don’t think to check. In this lawsuit, it claims that the Penthouse Club misclassified their exotic dancers as independent contractors.
As government administrations change, so do the organizations that support the government such as the Department of Labor (DOL).
Three Santa Rosa, California area restaurants recently agreed to a settlement with the Labor Department to resolve claims that the companies failed to properly compensate several workers for all their hours spent on the job.
A Detroit-area security company recently reached an agreement with the Department of Labor to resolve claims that the company violated federal wage and labor laws by creating separate businesses to disguise the amount of hours workers spent on the job.
In 2016, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) finalized a rule, wherein, the minimum salary to qualify for the white collar exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act would be increased from $23,660 per year to $47,476 per year.
Over the years, hydraulic fracturing (or simply fracking), has become a popular drilling technique in extracting oil and natural gas from the earth.