Health Care appears to be the latest industry targeted for wage-and-hour enforcement by the federal government and private parties. The New York Times reports that hospitals around the country have paid millions of dollars in back wages to settle claims by the government and employees. And many more hospitals are fighting class-action lawsuits that [...]
Employers: Time to check your wage and hour compliance
The Department of Labor announced Friday that it has hired an additional 250 wage and hour investigators to respond more quickly to complaints and undertake more targeted enforcement of wage and hour laws. In the past three months, the Labor Department has brought two enforcement cases that resulted in the recovery of nearly $2 million [...]