See NYSDOL Finds Rampant Wage and Hour Violations in Queens factory, NYT, 7/24/08
-Queens workplace was sweatshop
-rampant overtime and wage and hour violations
-100 ees worked 7 day workweeks, shortened lunch periods
-employers encouraged workers to lie to investigators, falsify time cards
-$5.3 million owed
-made clothes for Victoria's Secret, Urban Outfitters
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When auditing my firm, the DOL mismatched the pay-periods and paychecks across the board - yet insist we pay their "unpaid wages" anyway. When I raised the point they replied: "sorry we're out of time." What recourse do we have?
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