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  • Final Rule: Overtime

    Final Rule: Overtime

    Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for "White-Collar" Employees

  • FMLA

    The Employer's Guide to the Family and Medical Leave Act

  • Home Care: A Guide for Consumers and Their Families to Paying Minimum Wage and Overtime

    Home Care: A Guide for Consumers and Their Families to Paying Minimum Wage and Overtime

  • Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Executive Order 13706, Establishing Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors

    Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Executive Order 13706, Establishing Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors

  • Administrator's Interpretation No. 2016-1: Joint Employment Under the FLSA and MSPA

    Administrator's Interpretation No. 2016-1: Joint Employment Under the FLSA and MSPA

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    Workers Owed Wages

    Do you think you may be owed back wages collected by Wage and Hour as the result of an investigation?

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Highlights

  • What Employers Need to Know About the Family and Medical Leave Act
  • Free Seminars: Wage requirements for workers under section 14(c) of the FLSA
  • Final Rule: Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for "White-Collar" Employees
  • Establishing Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors
  • Final Rule: Executive Order 13658, Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors
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Workers Owed Wages System

Workers Owed Wages

Workers Owed Wages

Do you think you may be owed back wages collected by Wage and Hour as the result of an investigation? Search Workers Owed Wages (WOW): our database of workers for whom we have money waiting to be claimed. Start here.

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July 27, 2016

Making Sure Hard Work Pays Off

Making Sure Hard Work Pays Off

by Joanna Hawkins

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