Are You in the Restaurant, Construction or Health Care Industries?
Are You in the Restaurant, Construction or Health Care Industries? If so, below is an excerpt from the most recent DOL in Action newsletter you need to read. Just like the IRS is doing with Independent Contractor misclassification Concerns, the DOL is doing with Wage and Hour, and Safety and Health concerns.
Department Launches Enforcement Efforts in Utah and Denver
The Department’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has launched a pair of concentrated enforcement efforts in Utah and the Denver metropolitan area to combat violations of federal minimum wage, overtime pay and child labor regulations. In Utah the initiative will focus on the restaurant industry by conducting approximately 65 establishment investigations. In addition to restaurants, the Denver initiative will include construction sites, where WHD plans to use the results to develop future strategies to increase compliance levels in order to secure safe and healthy workplaces for employees.
WHD Promotes Compliance with Fair Labor Standards Act in NY
DOL’s Wage and Hour Division is currently conducting a compliance initiative in the health care industry for all New York state counties north of New York City. This initiative from the Albany District Office aims to promote compliance with the minimum wage, overtime, recordkeeping and child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and to ensure employees are protected and compensated in accordance with the law. Investigations during the last five years revealed that less than 36 percent of health care employers in that area were in compliance with the FLSA.
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