worker rights (workplace rights)

Filed in Wage and Hour Issues, Wages and Benefits • By: Juan Coria •
Left to right: Arnulfo Antonio Luna, Jafet Luna Martinez and Demetria Jones
These workers stood up for their rights in the face of wage theft.
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Filed in Wage and Hour Issues, Wages and Benefits • By: Gene Ramos •
Exterior shot of a football stadium at night in Las Vegas, with an enormous sign reading "Super Bowl LVIII"
The low-wage workers who make the Super Bowl possible are often at risk of wage theft, labor trafficking, illegal child labor and other labor violations. We work hard to protect
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Filed in Wages and Benefits, Wage and Hour Issues • By: Elizabeth Zimmer-Mull •
Diego Low (fourth from left) with other worker advocates and Wage and Hour Division staff
We’re trying to locate hundreds of construction workers who were employed by Force Corp., AB Construction Group Inc., Juliano Fernandes and Anderson dos Santos after securing $1.8 million through litigation
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Filed in Wage and Hour Issues, Wages and Benefits • By: Betty Campbell •
Visible wind damage in the wake of a storm. A roof and siding have been ripped from a building.
Here are a few tips to help protect your bottom line, and your employees' wages, in the aftermath of a natural disaster.
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Filed in Wage and Hour Issues, Español • By: Juan Coria •
Wage and Hour investigator Juan Coria stands in a field. Workers are visible on a tractor behind him.
To highlight our efforts to make sure farmworkers get the wages they earn, acting Wage and Hour Division Administrator Jessica Looman is on the road this week in the Southeast
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Filed in Wage and Hour Issues, Workplace Rights • By: Brian Cleasby •
Diego Jimenez sitting on the front steps of a house.
Food service workers often lose wages when employers keep their tips, pay on a tips-only basis, deduct meal costs from wages for dine-and-dash patrons, and withhold overtime from salaried kitchen
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Filed in Wage and Hour Issues, Wages and Benefits, Working families • By: Karen Clark •
Nichole and her son sit at her desk
This working mom’s bosses told her she was embarrassing the men in her office when she needed to express breastmilk. Then our Wage and Hour Division investigators stepped in.
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