In a settlement of child-labor complaints at Wal-Mart stores, the Department
of Labor agreed to give the nation's largest retailer 15 days of notice before
it investigates allegations of wage and hour law violations, the New York Times
reports.
President Bush is proposing an increase to the Department of Labor's budget for enforcement of wage and hour regulations from $195.5 million in fiscal year 2005 to $198.4 million in 2006.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division is reporting that investigators
collected a total of $196.7 million in back wages for 288,296 workers in fiscal
year 2004, down from the $212.5 million it collected in fiscal year 2003.
A company that employs janitors who clean Target stores in California, Arizona,
Nevada, Texas, and New Mexico has agreed to pay $1.9 million in back wages
to 775 employees to settle allegations that the company violated the overtime
provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
The University of Phoenix has agreed to pay up to $3.5 million to settle a complaint accusing the university of violating the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Alfred Burgess Robinson, Jr. has been named acting administrator of the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division Robinson succeeds Tammy McCutchen, who won widespread praise in business and HR circles for the way she oversaw the DOL's rewriting of the overtime-exemption regulations in the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The Department of Labor is preparing to launch a task force to enforce new
overtime regulations the department published
last week, the Associated Press reports.
The U.S. Department of Labor says its National Administrative Office (NAO) will review allegations that the government of Mexico failed to enforce
its law protecting the rights of workers at two Mexican garment factories.
A company with a nationwide
chain of retail automobile parts suppliers has paid $131,658 in back overtime wages to 127 employees following a self-audit supervised by the U.S. Department of Labor.
