Following an investigation by the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, Extended Healthcare was found in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime and recordkeeping provisions.
The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has been cracking down on companies that are violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Melodee Megia, a former Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas employee recently filed a lawsuit against the hotel claiming she, and potentially 3,000 other hotel workers, were not properly paid for their overtime employee attendance, reports Vegas Inc.
There has recently been a rise in the number of lawsuits employees are bringing against their employers for unpaid overtime.
The Department of Labor's Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) guarantees employees receive minimum wage and overtime pay (time-and-a-half) if they work more than 40 hours in a single workweek.
Pharmaceutical companies might soon begin keeping more detailed records of their payroll following a rise in employee lawsuits that have raised questions about overtime pay exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Summer is approaching and along with it comes numerous employee vacation requests.
Alaska Communications was recently slapped with a class action lawsuit by a former worker who claims she was wrongfully denied overtime pay for her time attendance.
In the past, if a restaurant was investigated by the Department of Labor's (DOL) Wage and Hour Division and found in violation of federal labor rights, they would be charged fines and ordered to pay back wages.
Time is money in every industry, but the correlation is even more significant in the HR technology sector that develops timeclocks and payroll services, according to Workforce.
New York-based Flaum Appetizing Corp., a manufacturer of kosher food products such as hummus, pickles and cheeses, recently settled an overtime dispute with 20 of its former workers by paying $577,000 in back wages, according to Crain's New York.
Patricia Sloan, previously a shift manager at Taco Bell for eight years, recently filed a lawsuit against the company for overtime pay violations, according to The Huffington Post.
Skokie Maid and Cleaning Services in Illinois was recently ordered to pay $501,893 in back wages to 75 workers for unpaid overtime, according to The Skokie Review.
Following an investigation by the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, residential care provider Peaceful Living was found in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), according to the Hudson Star-Observer.
Employee overtime violations can be expensive mistakes that might be easily avoided with better payroll processing system that caught violations before they became more serious problems.
To settle an employee overtime dispute, Walmart has agreed to pay workers $4.8 million in back wages and damages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
Three Barton G. restaurants were recently investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division and found to be in violation the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime, minimum wage and recordkeeping provisions.
Online review site Yelp recently announced that it will pay workers $1.25 million to settle employee overtime claims in California and national sales, according to GigaOm.
Reality TV star Adrienne Maloof is being sued by former employee Deanna Cesena for overtime, recordkeeeping and meal break violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), according to Radar Online.
The grocery chain Publix Super Markets, which has been rated highest for customer satisfaction, might not receive such high marks from its workers given that non-exempt managers are filing lawsuits against the company for unpaid overtime.
Restaurants require a number of employees to provide their patrons with the most hospitable service. Servers, bartenders, chefs, cooks, dishwashers and managers are all key players in a dining experience.
The agricultural industry has come under scrutiny, according to Fox News Latino, because of employers' tendencies to hire undocumented immigrants as low-wage workers and pay them in cash, keeping no records of their employee attendance.
The investigation revealed the company was not properly paying foremen, crew leaders, drivers and laborers for their employee attendance.
A national law firm in Dallas, Texas, is conducting investigations into the payroll practices of call centers.
The Department of Labor established the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to ensure workers received the wages they were entitled to.
Elevations Shoring of Kenner, Louisiana, was recently investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division in relation to suspected violations of federal standards.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), there is an alarming trend emerging in the workforce - employers are misclassifying service providers as independent contractors instead of employees.
If restaurant owners or managers fail to keep a close watch on the business' payroll practices, they could end up owing employees thousands in back wages.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division recently announced plans to crack down on labor rights violations in Los Angeles restaurants.
SuperShuttle drivers are fighting back against Veolia Transportation, the parent company of the airport shuttle service for its policies.
Applied Property Management Co. in Hoboken, New Jersey, has agreed to pay seven workers $73,990 in back wages for unpaid overtime.
Retail confectionary chain Candyopolis was recently ordered to pay $12,000 in civil penalties and $6,700 in back wages for labor rights violations.
Wage and hour claims surpass all other types of employment lawsuits, according to JD Supra.
The Supreme Court recently heard a case brought by two GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical employees against the employer for unpaid overtime.
Lawsuit for unpaid overtime increased 32 percent last year compared with numbers from 2008, according to USA Today.
Many employees are cutting down or even eliminating lunch breaks to be more productive at work, according to USA Today.
Employers might run into trouble if they do not know which federal and state overtime laws apply to their workers.
Raceway 700 gas station on Mobile Highway in Montgomery, Alabama has agreed to pay six employees $27,236 in back wages after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.
A Subway franchisee in the Tampa Bay, Florida area was recently investigated by the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division and found to be in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) minimum wage provisions.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour division recently found Sears Methodist Retirement System Inc. in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) minimum wage, overtime and recordkeeping provisions.
The U.S. Department of Labor and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) states that employers are required to pay employees extra wages if they work more than 40 hours in a single workweek.
Investigators discovered that the Thai restaurants located on Larchmont and West Pico were not properly paying workers for overtime employee attendance.
A recent investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Wage and Hour Division revealed that two Florida restaurants are in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime and recordkeeping provisions.
Two Texas restaurants, Mi Sombrero in Houston and El Ranchero Mexican Restaurant in La Porte, recently paid 27 employees more than $132,000 in back wages.
A Long Island, New York, gas station chain was recently ordered to pay $583,000 in back wages to 35 employees to settle a lawsuit filed by the Department of Labor (DOL).
Some of the most common labor rights violations can also be the costliest.
It's important for employers to stay up-to-date about developments in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state labor laws.
Klaasmeyer Construction Company in Conway, Arkansas, recently paid $222,602 in overtime backwages to 204 employees.
The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division recently found Alabama trucking company R.L. Box in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Acts (FLSA) provisions.
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) paid patrolmen an additional $166,000 in wages for their overtime employee attendance during last month's Occupy demonstration
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently released a report showing that New York state workers accumulated 12.2 million hours of overtime that earned them $469 million in extra wages last year.
In the past two year, the U.S. Postal Service spent more than $717 million on unauthorized overtime pay.
Following an investigation into Boston-area restaurants, the Department of Labor's (DOL) Wage and Hour Division found that Metropolitan Club in Chestnut Hill was in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime provisions.
Matthew Tobin filed a lawsuit against his employer, Sussex, Wisconsin-based Beer Capitol Distributing Inc. for failing to pay him proper wages for his employee overtime, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Delivery giant Federal Express has come under scrutiny for its practice of improperly classifying drivers as independent contractors
To avoid investigations by the Wage and Hour Division and avoid paying penalties, employers should take special care when writing job descriptions
Rainbow Riders Childcare Center in Blacksburg, Virginia, recently came under investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division for unpaid overtime.
Investigators said the Boston-area restaurants owed 478 workers back wages totaling $1,307,808.
The DOL's investigation discovered the company wasn't paying laborers, machine operators and foreman for overtime employee attendance.
Farmworkers Awareness Week is March 24 through March 29.
There have been an increasing number of investigations into restaurant labor law violations in California, according to the Inside Scoop San Francisco.
Hotels and motels generally employ a large staff who fulfill a variety of roles. It might be difficult for employers to accurately track the time attendance of each employee, but a failure to do so could result in heavy fines from the Department of Labor
California security guard Ernesto Salamante was recently awarded $425,000 for unpaid overtime wages
A failure to do so, however, can leave a business vulnerable to employee claims for failing to properly compensate workers.
Violating meal break provisions can be an expensive mistake for employers, especially those who operate businesses in California, which enforces strict state labor laws.
The Gymboree Corporation recently agreed to pay $463,600 to settle a lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office for violating state labor laws.
The lawsuit first filed against the Back Bay Restaurant Group in fall 2010, is now making its way through the U.S. District Court in New Jersey, fueled by 300 employees who claim they were wrongly denied overtime pay and minimum wage.
Illinois toll workers have been exploiting payroll policies to inflate wages with overtime pay.
An employee of CarMax in Fresno, California, recently filed a lawsuit against the used car company for misclassifying workers as exempt employees so they wouldn't earn extra pay for overtime employee attendance.
The home healthcare industry employs approximately 2 million people in roughly 12,000 firms nationwide.
A growing number of employers are allowing employees to work on their own devices whether at home or in the office.
To cut down on overtime pay, the Finance Ministry in New Delhi, India, installed a biometric timeclock.
The U.S. Department of Labor recently ordered a restaurant in Sunnyvale, California, to pay $404,000 in unpaid overtime.
A subcontractor hired by Walmart is being sued by warehouse workers in Southern California who claim they weren't paid for overtime.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, employers were required to pay more than 7,700 back wages totaling $5.3 million as the results of Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations.
The Wage and Hour Division, a branch of the U.S Department of Labor (DOL), is launching an initiative to crack down on labor law violations in the Texas motel and hotel industry.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division recently announced a multi-year initiative to crack down on Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations in Louisiana's child care industry.
The Illinois Department of Labor (DOL) claims that Cook County canine officers are owed $528,061 in back wages for violating labor laws and failing to pay canine officers for overtime.
Recent litigation has left many companies wondering if they are going to continue offering students unpaid internships.
Fashion designer Alexander Wang has been charged with a $50 million lawsuit claiming Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations for failing to pay workers overtime.
Celebrity chef Mario Batali has agreed to pay workers $5.25 million to settle a dispute over unpaid minimum wage and overtime.
California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Sue recently reached a $235,835 settlement with Big Lantern Restaurant in San Francisco over Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations.
Following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, the Sierra-Cascade Nursery was charged with Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations and ordered to pay $457,000 in back wages to 430 employees.
Three Los Angeles carwash business were recently taken to court by the California Labor Commissioner for payroll procedures that were in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA).
The number of San Diego public city employees who are earning more than $100,000 is up 9 percent from last year, following a five-year trend that signals a problematic payroll budget.
A chain of five Japanese restaurants in Suffolk and Nassau counties, New York, were ordered to pay $764,796 following a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor.
A bill that would factor an employee's overtime pay into retirement payments could lead to a crackdown in payroll monitoring and policy enforcement.
Veranda, a hookah lounge and restaurant in the West Village of New York City, has been ordered by the New York attorney general to pay $200,000 to 25 current and former employees in back wages and penalties
It can be easy to lose track of time on a job site. Workers are moving fast and trucks are delivering shipments of supplies. However, losing track of employees' time and attendance can become a costly mistake for contractors.
A city worker in East Providence was punished for damaging a timeclock at the Department of Public Works in East Providence, Rhode Island.
In some Pennsylvania prisons, reports have surfaced indicating that guards are bypassing promotions because they are already making more than their superiors in overtime pay.
Employers can avoid compliance violations by providing non-exempt workers with mobile timeclocks.
Even though the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not require the use of timeclocks to accurately record employee attendance, they can help employers avoid underpaying or overpaying workers.
It's no surprise to hear that when employees are stressed and under pressure they may be more likely to duck out of work. However, in a recession, employee time and attendance issues grew even greater.
To stay in compliance with the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) employers must following minimum wage laws, overtime pay, youth employment standards and recordkeeping.
Misinterpreting overtime exemption provisions can be a costly mistake for employers.
The homehealth care industry is fighting Fair Labor Standards Acts (FLSA) legislation that could increase minimum wage and regulate overtime pay.
Over 500 current and retired officers have filed charges against the city of Richmond, Virginia for unpaid overtime.
The Department of Labor's Misclassification Initiative is seeking to correct the misclassification of workers as independent contractors that has cost them employee benefits.
A new bill has been proposed by high-tech companies that would revise labor laws to limit overtime benefits for employees.
On Monday, Republicans made an offer to extend the payroll tax cut without slicing budgets elsewhere.
The February 29 deadline is fast approaching for the payroll tax cut extension, but lawmakers hardly seem close to making an agreement.
The city of Boston paid police officers $1.4 million in overtime last year as a result of extra time spent at the Occupy Boston site.
Grocery store owners in Kenner, Lousiana, have been ordered to pay $65,000 in back wages after a Labor Department investigation revealed that they were in violations of Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA).
Payroll tax cuts negotiations continue as the February 29 deadline nears.
For big city-based companies, managing employee time and attendance can be difficult, especially in light of public transportation and citywide events.
The City of Cincinnati is facing a budget bind in relation to questionable time and attendance policies and employees' usage of them.
Fingerprint time clocks are based on biometric technology used as part of a company's employee tracking system.
Many associate an employee tracking system with keeping tabs on lower-level workers.
Companies that use timeclocks enjoy a number of employee tracking benefits that aren't possible with a manual system.
At the end of every year, it's not uncommon for businesses to recognize employee time and effort by awarding bonuses.
A meat processing company worker was recently arrested for timeclock fraud after pocketing former employees' paychecks, the Suwannee Democrat reports.
A New Jersey township is trying to contain rising overtime employee attendance costs after layoffs decreased the size of its police department by nearly one-third, according to the Cinnaminson Patch.
A St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, sheriff's deputy was recently arrested for fraudulently making overtime employee attendance claims and issuing false seatbelt citations to motorists, according to The Times-Picayune.
An Italian restaurant in the New York City borough of Queens was recently sued over alleged time and attendance violations by eight former employees, according to the Times Ledger.
The St. Paul, Minneapolis, Fire Department is looking to cut $1 million from its budget by scaling down time and attendance payouts, according to KSTP-TV.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is projected to spend more than $56 million compensating overtime employee attendance this year - nearly $25 million over its original budget, according to the San Francisco Examiner.
The Occupy Wall Street protest has been going on for nearly a month and has cost the New York Police Department approximately $2 million in overtime employee attendance compensation, according to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
The director of the New York Department of Labor's Office of Staff and Organizational Development was investigated for potential time and attendance fraud using a GPS tracking device that was installed on his car without his knowledge.
Since Washington, D.C., fire chief Kenneth Ellerbe took over the Fire and Emergency Medical Services department, overtime employee attendance expenses have decreased by more than 50 percent.
A Washington State Patrol lieutenant whose employee attendance compensation earnings were unusually high has been placed on administrative reassignment pending the results of a criminal investigation, according to the Seattle Times.
According to a recent report by Connecticut budget officials, state employees were paid $250 million in overtime over a 12-month period that ended on June 30, the Hartford Courant reports.
In order to meet guard-to-inmate ratios set by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, the Cameron County jail division increased its overtime employee attendance payouts between 2008 and 2010.
The labor commissioner of California recently filed a $17 million lawsuit against real estate company ZipRealty, claiming that it failed to observe state and federal time and attendance regulations.
Cook County, Illinois, is grappling with major time and attendance pay overages, according to the Chicago News Cooperative.
Approximately 86,000 of Alabama's public sector employees may qualify for a class action time and attendance lawsuit against the state pension program.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley recently ordered a Springfield-based car dealership to pay more than $450,000 in restitution for alleged violations related to time and attendance compensation.
Four U.S. Open umpires recently sued the U.S. Tennis Association over wage and hour violations committed over the past six years.
Two former police officers are suing the town of Alexander, Arkansas, for unpaid overtime, vacation time and holiday pay, according to The Associated Press.
A recent audit by the office of New York comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that employees of the New York and New Jersey Port Authority pocketed $85.7 million in overtime last year.
New York's largest union of state employees recently voted to approve a contract agreement between union leaders and state Governor Andrew Cuomo that would freeze their wages and increase the cost of health benefits.
A former worker for a Texas oil field equipment company recently filed a lawsuit claiming his employment was unfairly terminated after he complained that he was inaccurately classified as a salaried employee in order to be exempted from overtime.
According to a recent survey by Expedia, only 38 percent of employed adults in the United States used all of the vacation time they accrued in 2010.
Despite a $171 million budget shortfall, the school district of Broward County, Florida, continues to pay employees with two jobs overtime at the hourly rate of their primary positions, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
The Newark Fire Department is perilously close to consuming the overtime funds set aside in its annual budget, with just $2,350 remaining of the more than $230,000 it was originally apportioned, according to the Newark Advocate.
According to a recent federal appeals court decision, more than 4,000 sergeants working for the New York City Police Department are eligible to receive overtime back pay, Reuters reports.
The four agencies in Montgomery County, Maryland, that spent the most on overtime in 2010 were found to have increased their spending in the last quarter of the fiscal year that ended on June 30, according to the Washington Examiner.
The Fort Worth, Texas-based American Airlines Federal Credit Union recently agreed to pay more than $83,000 in overtime back wages after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.
Members of Orthodox social justice group Uri L'Tzedek recently picketed in response to a kosher cheese company challenging a ruling that it should pay approximately $270,000 in overtime back pay to its workers.
Drug testing lab Cetero Research recently offered assurances following an announcement by the United States Food and Drug Administration regarding the deliberate misreporting of dates by chemists seeking to falsify their employee attendance records.
A class action lawsuit was recently filed against mortgage lender Guaranteed Rate alleging that the company had failed to comply with California time and attendance laws when compensating its loan officers.
A former nurses' manager at Virginia's Lynchburg General Hospital was recently convicted of embezzlement after being accused of stealing from her employer by falsifying payroll records.
A woman in Pennsylvania has consistently earned a weekly average of $1,094 in overtime on top of a $90,000 salary, despite the fact that her time and attendance while on the job clocks in at 42.6 hours per week.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently ordered the lead contractor of the company in charge of the city's beleaguered time and attendance software project to refund the $600 million it has been paid for the project since 2003.
Two executives at New Jersey-based technology company TechnoDyne - which was a major subcontractor for New York City's beleaguered time and attendance software project, CityTime - were recently indicted on federal fraud and kickback charges.
A recent payroll investigation by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs found that at least 17 Trenton Parks and Recreation Department employees may have committed time theft, the Times of Trenton reports.
New York City's time and attendance software project, CityTime, drew more negative attention recently as the company overseeing the project, Science Applications International Corporation, announced that it had fired a senior employee for payroll fraud.
A former postal union officer from Hawthorne, New Jersey, accused stealing more than $780,000 from the union's payroll account was recently sentenced for the crime, according to The Record.
The former postmaster of Bridgeton, New Jersey was recently charged with one count of misappropriation of postal funds and one count of aiding and abetting in connection with an alleged payroll scheme, the Daily Journal reports.
Controlling payroll-related costs can be facilitated by the implementation of software to track employee time and attendance. Software can also free up human resources employees by negating the need to sort through time cards.
Northeastern Pennsylvania's Luzerne County may have an upgraded timeclock and payroll system in place by August, according to the Hazleton Standard Speaker.
State employees in Saratoga County, New York, are using an antiquated timeclock system that officials are calling to be updated, according to the Saratoga Post Star.
The Mobile, Alabama firefighters' union will be suing the city over the enactment of a law banning the deduction of union dues from payroll, according to state news site al.com.
According to KOLO TV, Nevada Labor Commissioner Michael Tanchek recently released the annual bulletins for the state's minimum wage and daily overtime requirements, which will become effective as of this summer.
A total of 71 law enforcement officers in Chesterfield County, Virginia, recently filed a law suit alleging they were not properly compensated for overtime hours, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
In response to workers' requests for more schedule flexibility, Nevada Senator James Settelmeyer (R-Gardnerville) has proposed a bill that would remove overtime provisions for employees who work more than eight hours a day.
A recent survey by the Manufacturers' Association of South Central Pennsylvania has found that 48 percent of the midstate's largest manufacturers offer overtime to employees who are legally exempt from it, according to Central Penn Business.
A state examination of the Department of Public Works (DPW) in Mechanicville, New York, recently revealed that the department's timeclock had been out of order for several years, according to the Times Union.
Recently, Qqest announced the release of the TimeForce II mobile application, which is designed to improve time and attendance monitoring of employees who work remotely.
On March 25, the Florida State House voted 73-40 to prohibit union dues from being automatically deducted from the paychecks of all government workers.
It appears no state is immune to the union turmoil that began in Wisconsin and has since spread to many parts of the country.
Union members in Florida are expressing outrage at a member of the state House of Representatives for what they claim are contradictory statements, following the introduction of a bill that would limit union payroll processing.
An Alabama high court ruled on Friday that Alabama lawmakers could not prevent teachers in the state from paying dues into their association, the Huntsville Times reports.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has asked teachers to consider a pay freeze, which he contends will save school districts more than $400 million, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
It appears the battle in Wisconsin is not over despite the recently passed bill restricting collective bargaining rights to unions.
The potential stripping of collective bargaining rights has already turned Wisconsin into a labor battleground, and now that energy is spilling over into neighboring Michigan.
Child care providers in Michigan will have more money in their pocket, thanks to a new measure that will eliminate union deductions from providers who work in private homes
Wisconsin officials are pushing back against the increasing number of public employees leaving their jobs behind to protest Governor Scott Walker's plan to increase financial requirements among state workers.
At a time when unions are taking heat as sources of wasteful spending, the National Labor Relations Board has voiced its support for union expansion during the economy recovery, the Wisconsin Law Journal reports.
Employers want their staff to produce at the highest level, but the increase in web-based work and mobile devices offer attractive distractions in the workplace. Time theft is not only wasteful, but can effect a company's bottom line as well.
Employee missed days not only come at the cost of his or her personal productivity, but also to the company as a whole.
