The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against two Rhode Island businessmen
and their chain of restaurants, alleging violations of federal overtime pay and
youth employment requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
The Labor Department has received over 80,000 comments responding its proposed changes to the rules on overtime. The Washington Post conducted a review of
23,000 of these comments and found that most of the mail expressed opposition to the proposed rules.
A temporary staffing agency did not pay workers overtime pay when they worked over 40 hours, violating the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to the Labor Department.
Some Senate Democrats said last week they will continue to try to block the Bush administration's proposal to overhaul the rules governing overtime, even though a House effort failed earlier this month, the Associated Press reports.
A coalition of ten nursing groups representing 400,000 nurses has asked the
Labor Department to alter its proposed regulations and exclude nurses from the
proposed rules for determining eligibility for overtime compensation, the Boston
Globe reports.
As the House prepared to vote on a bill that would allow employers in the private
sector to offer compensatory time off in lieu of overtime pay, labor unions
stepped up their opposition to the legislation, the Associated Press reports.
Republicans in Congress have once again introduced legislation that would allow employees to take time off for overtime, rather than money. But the leaders of two government employee groups in Houston say their experience with time banking has been anything but successful.
