Punching In: Take a Peek at DOL’s Banner Enforcement Numbers (1)

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.

Labor’s Push on Back Pay | EEOC’s Early Days of PWFA

Rebecca Rainey: Acting US Labor Secretary Julie Su recently touted that her agency’s wage division recovered $1 billion in backwages and damages for 615,000 workers since President Joe Biden took office.

A large share of those cases were for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, like failing to pay the minimum wage, overtime premium pay, or retaliating against employees who raise concerns about their pay, a Bloomberg Law analysis of publicly available enforcement data from the agency covering roughly the same ...