WASHINGTON D.C. — Section 13(b)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides an overtime exemption for drivers within the authority of the Secretary of Transportation under Section 204 of the Motor Carrier Act of 1935.
WASHINGTON D.C. — A Washington, D.C. medical transport driver recently filed an unpaid overtime lawsuit against a nationwide health care contractor based out of St. Louis alleging the defendant grossly underpaid local workers.
WASHINGTON D.C. — A group of six current and former employees for popular Washington, D.C. restaurant Founding Farmers recently filed an unpaid overtime lawsuit against the owners of the business over allegations that the company failed to pay workers for all their hours spent on the job at multiple restaurants owned by the defendant.
WASHINGTON D.C. — A federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of the Northern Marianas Islands recently ordered a Hong Kong-based casino company operating in U.S. territory to pay the Department of Labor $190,000 in restitution for withholding overtime wages from workers.
D.C. — The Whitehouse recently issued a freeze order on the former administration’s proposed expansion to the nation’s overtime and labor laws that would have essentially doubled the overtime threshold for salaried employees.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal agency charged with enforcing national overtime pay laws and investigating wage theft recently settled its own unpaid overtime lawsuit with hundreds of government workers claiming they were misclassified as exempt from time and a half pay.