Husk Energy Failure to Pay the Required Minimum Wage and Overtime
Just last week the U.S. Department of Labor announced that Husk Energy, a petroleum refinery in Lima, Ohio, agreed to pay nearly $1,000,000 in back wages after an investigation by the Department of Labor in which it was found that its employees were not being paid overtime compensation.
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States Unpaid Overtime Laws
According to a federal law known as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), non-exempt employees are entitled to overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a single workweek. However, some states have their own regulations regarding minimum wage, overtime pay, employer record keeping, meal and rest breaks, and other labor issues. IQ Overtime’s Directory of State Overtime Laws includes information on wage and hour laws in all 50 states. A frequently asked questions section is also included on each state’s overtime law page in order to address some of the common concerns that workers have regarding overtime pay.
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Wage and Hour Complaints, What Does It Mean To The Organization?
Wage and Hour complaints are facing every workplace. During her first year in office, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis vowed more aggressive enforcement of workplace laws, repeatedly stating that there is a “new sheriff in town” and that she planned to put “enforcement back in the Department of Labor.” During 2009, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor hired more than 300 employees (including 293 investigators); in fiscal year 2010, the Division plans to hire an additional 110 investigative employees.
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Cincinnati Company To Pay $87,000 After Investigation
A Cincinnati Company gets hits with an Overtime investigation and fine. The U.S. Department of Labor said Monday that Cincinnati Training Terminal and Services Inc. had agreed to pay $87,655 in overtime pay owed to 64 current and former workers following an investigation in which the department’s Wage and Hour Division discovered the company violated overtime pay provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Big Employer Concern Employee Breaks
Breaks and Rest periods should be a concern in the workplace. Employee breaks will be a problem for the workplace. Under state law, employees working an eight-hour shift are guaranteed two fifteen-minute paid breaks and a thirty-minute unpaid lunch break. Since the employer’s payroll system would probably deduct thirty minutes for lunch, if a worker skips lunch and keeps working, an employee is working without pay during that time.
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Northern District Courts Orders Marc’s to Pay $426,000 In Overtime
Overtime violation are still affecting companies. The United States Northern District of Ohio Court in Cleveland on Tuesday ruled that Marc’s, along with its Connecticut offshoot, Xpect Discounts, must pay workers a combined $426,504 in unpaid overtime wages.
Read the full article linked below.
http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2009/12/02/news/nh1772745.txt
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Human Capital Management
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Pizzeria Sued For Wage, Overtime Violations
Owners Gaetano Pinello and Grace Pinello of Martino’s Pizzeria, which operates Mama’s, are being sued for possible violations of the minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the Labor Department announced Wednesday.
Read the full article below.
http://libn.com/blog/2009/08/27/pizzeria-sued-for-wage-overtime-violations/
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Suits Claim Businesses Failed to Pay Overtime, Filed by Attorneys
A group of attorneys is going after two Nevada employers, charging they failed to pay required overtime to workers allegedly misclassified as managers.
You can read the full article linked below.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/aug/19/suits-claim-businesses-failed-pay-overpaid/
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Non Payment of Overtime or Wages
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (”the FLSA”) non-exempt employees are entitled to time-and-a-half compensation, and the FLSA makes it illegal for an employer to withhold overtime pay from a non-exempt employee who works over 40 hours in a workweek. This means that any overtime worked in a particular workweek must be paid on the pay day covering the same pay period in which the overtime hours were worked.
Read the full article below.
http://employmentlawgroup.net/PracticeAreas/Non-Payment-of-Wages.asp
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Lawsuit Aimed at T-Mobile Overtime
The lawsuit is designed to include people who are or were employed by T-Mobile as retail sales associates and supervisors who were not paid regular wages for all hours worked or overtime wages for hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week.
Read the full article linked below.
http://www.wirelessweek.com/News-Lawsuit-Aimed-at-TMobile-Overtime-071709.aspx
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