News Tagged ‘flsa violations

class action filed against Alabama company for FLSA overtime violations

buff rock 100x100A filed by employees against Buffalo Rock Co. of Birmingham, Alabama has been certified as a class action , according to a report in the Birmingham News. Workers filed the in the U.S. District Court for Birmingham in 2007, alleging the company’s failure to compensate some of its sales and delivery employees for work.

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Missouri restaurant pays back wages and penalties for FLSA violations

waiter 100x100The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has cited a Missouri restaurant with numerous violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to a report in the Bolivar Herald-Free Press.

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Woman crusades against epidemic of wage theft

iwj 150x150Kim Bobo believes that employers in the United States are stealing from their workers. Not just nickels and dimes and not just in isolated incidents. She claims that the theft is rampant — that it has become a “national crisis at this moment in our nation” to the tune of $19 billion per year in unpaid alone.

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