NY State Cracking Down on Wage and Hour Violations in Food Service Industry

New York - State to Crack Down on Labor Violations -- VosIzNeias

-supermarkets, grocers, coffee shops, restaurants being targeted

USDOL Suspends Bush Regulations on Immigrant Agricultural Guest Workers

Rule Change for Workers on Farms, NYT, 5/29/09, at A15

Workers' Protest Briefly Brings the Jumeirah Essex House to a Halt - NYTimes.com

A Workers’ Protest Briefly Brings the Jumeirah Essex House to a Halt - NYTimes.com

-protest over failure to pay banquet room staff nearly $2 million in tips

Day Laborers Taken Advantage of in New Orleans on Wages, Pay

See Day Laborers are Easy Prey in New Orleans, NYT, 2/16/09, at A1

Family Dollar Stores Held to Owe $35 Million to Store Managers for Overtime Misclassification

See Family Dollar hit for misclassifying store managers as exempt

Walmart to Settle 63 Cases for Failure to Pay for Off the Clock Work

See Walmart to settle 63 suits over wages, NYT, 12/24/08, at A1

-at least $352 million

Long Deng grocery store to pay $750k to settle overtime allegations

See "370 grocery workers bag 750G award," NYDN, 12/10/08, at 37