Workplace Wage and Hour Newsreel

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Saturday, June 6, 2009

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

Sunday, May 31, 2009

USDOL Suspends Bush Regulations on Immigrant Agricultural Guest Workers

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

Thursday, May 14, 2009

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

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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

Saturday, December 27, 2008

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

See Family Dollar hit for misclassifying store managers as exempt

Thursday, December 25, 2008

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

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

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

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