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The state’s Department of Labor and Industries has failed to collect millions of dollars from employers that the agency says it owed to more than 1,800 workers across the state. Last year the department collected zero dollars for workers.

Isabella Christian knew something was wrong with her paychecks just months into working catering events at Royal India, a Kirkland restaurant and catering company. She wasnt always paid on time. …

Oscar Torres has logged hours working at construction sites across Dallas-Fort Worth throughout the last seven years. Six times now, he hasn’t been rightfully paid, he said, losing upwards of

A Pittsburgh area mother and daughter have been ordered to pay more than $2.4 million for depriving overtime pay to 345 home health care aides.

Unions help foster employer compliance with labor standards and protect labor rights for workers in the United States.

Already battered by long shifts and high infection rates, essential workers struggling through the pandemic face another hazard of hard times: employe ...

pandemic, and now as vaccines become more widely available, we are reporting on how our local schools, businesses and communities are returning to a more "normal" future. Theres never been more of a need for the kind of local, independent and unbiased journalism that The Day produces. Please support our work by subscribing today. How companies rip off poor employees — and get away with it Ruth Palacios and Arturo Xelo, a married couple from Mexico, work at their fruit stand in the Corona n...

US: Struggling Workers Wages Threatened To Be Stolen by Their Employers Published May 5th, 2021 - 02:00 GMT Companies that hire child care workers, gas station clerks, restaurant servers and security guards are among the businesses most likely to get caught cheating their employees, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of minimum wage and overtime violations from the U.S. Department of Labor. (Shutterstock) Highlights When a recession hits, U.S. companies are more likely to...

Peoples World Already battered by long shifts and high infection rates, essential workers struggling through the pandemic face another hazard of hard times: employers who steal their wages. When a recession hits, U.S. companies are more likely to stiff their lowest-wage workers. These businesses often pay less than the minimum wage, make employees work off the clock, or refuse to pay overtime rates. In the most egregious cases, bosses don’t pay their employees at all. Companies that hire chil...

May 5, 2021 Ruth Palacios and Arturo Xelo, a married couple from Mexico, work at their fruit stand in the Corona neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. They worked seven days a week for months disinfecting COVID-19 patient rooms at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, but werent paid overtime Palacios says. The couple filed a federal lawsuit against the contractor that hired them, alleging their pay was cut without their knowledge from...