Sentences with phrase «labor wage and hour»

For additional information about internships aimed at for - profit private sector employers, see the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division's «Fact Sheet # 71: Internship Programs Under The Fair Labor Standards Act.»

In stepped Heidi Shierholz, a former Labor Wage and Hour staffer who is now senior economist and director of policy at the left - leaning Economic Policy Institute.

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To stay compliant with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers need to show the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division when the changes were made, and why.

The Fair Labor Standards Act, passed in 1938 as part of the New Deal, ushered in such innovations as the 40 - hour workweek, overtime pay, and the minimum wage.

After graduating from Harvard Law, she went to a labor union in Boston where she ended up embroiled in wage and hour disputes.

The complaints include wage and hour violations, charges of sexual harassment, and allegations of unfair labor practices.

«It's a very high turnover because of that,» Ivette Vigano, assistant director of the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division office in Philadelphia, told the Inquirer.

They included abolition of child labor, protection of workers against industrial hazards, shorter hours — the 12 - hour day was then common — a living wage and arbitration of industrial disputes.

Women workers who are still employed face worsening conditions including extremely low wage, long working hours and labor accidents.

Farm Labor Contractor, Vineyard Pay $ 42K in Penalties for Providing Deplorable Housing Conditions to Farm Workers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma CounLabor Contractor, Vineyard Pay $ 42K in Penalties for Providing Deplorable Housing Conditions to Farm Workers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma CounLabor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma Counlabor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma County...

Mr. Kemper practices in the area of labor and employment law where he regularly counsels employers on a variety of workplace issues including, but not limited to, interviewing, hiring, employee discipline and discharge, workplace discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour (including tipping practices), whistleblower, unemployment, restrictive covenants, non-compete agreements, non-solicitation agreements, non-disclosure agreements, separation agreements, workplace policies and employee handbooks.

Rosa Aliberti Rosa has worked on diverse labor and employment law matters, including wage and hour cases; workplace investigations; severance, employment, and non-compete agreements; has drafted and responded to discrimination complaints before government agencies, including the U.S. EEOC and NYS Division of Human Rights; and, has assisted in federal and state court litigations.

U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A Syracuse labor official chided Mayor Stephanie Miner on Monday for not using her bully pulpit to publicly call out Sen. John DeFrancisco and other opponents of the proposed $ 15 an hour minimum wage.

«Labor Day is a day we celebrate the great American work ethic and those hardworking men and women who struggled to provide us with workers» rights and deliver us today's landmarks of middle class security, including the 40 - hour work week, child labor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and MediLabor Day is a day we celebrate the great American work ethic and those hardworking men and women who struggled to provide us with workers» rights and deliver us today's landmarks of middle class security, including the 40 - hour work week, child labor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and Medilabor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare.

Raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour would benefit 927,400 city workers and pump $ 6.5 billion into the city's economy, according to state Labor Department report released yesterday.

Workers, labor advocates and faith leaders plan to hold a 24 - hour vigil at the New York state Capitol in support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 15.

Days later, after meeting with labor groups, Clinton explained her position further by aligning herself with Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Senate's health, education and labor committee, who had introduced a $ 12 - an - hour federal wage bill.

Senate Labor Committee Chair Jack Martins says he wants to broaden the discussion beyond simply phasing in a minimum wage increase to $ 15 an hour, saying the real issue in many regions of the state is the lack of opportunity for work that provides a middle class salary, and enables small businesses to thrive.

New York state's fast - food wage board on Wednesday is expected to recommend raising the fast - food minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, and the state's labor commissioner is expected to approve that recommendation, according to a person familiar with the board's plans.

In 60 percent of Department of Labor investigations since 2009, restaurants affiliated with Puzder's company were found to have breached wage and hour laws.

New York senators say the state should help nursing homes, hospitals and home health aide companies pay higher labor costs if the minimum wage climbs to $ 15 an hour, as Cuomo proposed.

At 9 a.m., Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney meets with Hudson Valley workers who earn less than $ 15 an hour and want an increase in the state minimum wage, Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation, 15 Stone Castle Rd., Rock Tavern.

At a rally in Manhattan, the Democratic governor shared the stage with national labor leaders after a state wage board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 and hour, delivering a key victory in a national push by unions — led by Service Employees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and other chains.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo pushed Monday for paid family leave legislation and an increase in the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour at a rally with labor leaders and elected Democrats in Hauppauge.

This task force includes the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Erie County Sheriff's Office, the US Dept. of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, the US Dept. of Labor, Wage and Hour, US Border Patrol, the International Institute of Buffalo, Farmworker Legal Services, as well as the Missing and Exploited Children.

Senate Republicans were displeased with Cuomo's raising of the wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 an hour through a Department of Labor wage board, and have subsequently called for more legislative input on the issue.

ALBANY — Raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour would benefit 927,400 city workers and pump $ 6.5 billion into the city's economy, according to state Labor Department report released Wednesday.

In an effort to minimize a rebellion from organized labor and the left during the governor's election last year, Cuomo made promises to workers and their organizations that he would raise the minimum wage to $ 10 an hour for public employees.

On Friday, Sept. 5, Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, was in Albany for the Labor Day Parade and said that as Governor he would unilaterally raise the state minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

Flanked by a collection of liberal groups and labor leaders, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Sunday announced a raft of proposals on social issues, among them a plan that would raise the minimum wage to $ 11.50 an hour in New York City and $ 10.50 an hour in the rest of the state.

Labor, community, religious and policy groups from around New York welcomed a reported agreement to increase the state minimum wage to $ 9 per hour over the next three years.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — New York senators said Monday that the state should help nursing homes, hospitals and home health aide companies pay higher labor costs if the minimum wage climbs to $ 15 an hour, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed.

Monday, surrounded by labor union officials and rank and file members, Cuomo named his campaign to increase the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour the «Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice» after his late father, the former governor of New York.

Schneiderman's probe coincides with Sandy - related investigations under way on Long Island by Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.

But after a near mutiny by upstate Republican senators, Cuomo and the Legislature agreed to raise the wage upstate to just $ 12.50 an hour over five years with future increases designed to get to $ 15 an hour tied to a formula that will be set by the governor's Division of Budget, in consultation with the state Department of Labor.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today applauded his wage board's ruling that fast food industry workers should receive $ 15 an hour for their labor — and shrugged off claims from business groups that the new pay floor will result in layoffs.

They cover topics including addressing harassment and discrimination in the workplace, developing labor law, navigating through ADA (AA), FMLA and workers» compensation issues, avoiding wage and hour landmines, key legislative, case law and regulatory changes.

Our individual practice is focused solely on wage and hour cases under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

A coalition of clergy, fast - food workers and labor advocates rallied Tuesday in Montgomery, Ala., to defend a bill establishing a minimum wage of $ 10.10 an hour in the city of Birmingham, Ala..

For males who entered the labor market directly after high school graduation in 1972, the difference between mastery of basic mathematical skills (fractions, decimals, and line graphs) and weak understanding of these concepts translated into an hourly wage differential at age 24 of $ 0.48 per hour (or $ 960 per year for year - round, full - time workers).

If we assume that the lowest price point is the «market value» of an ebook and we assume that writers must be paid at least minimum wage for every hour they spent laboring, the cost of an ebook and the market value are far apart.

The lawsuit alleging various California wage and hour labor violations was brought last year by a Wells Fargo mortgage broker in Los Angeles.

Our individual practice is focused solely on wage and hour cases under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Representing employers in wage and hour disputes under the Fair Labor Standards Act («FLSA») for improper payment or classification of workers, including collective actions.

Related Practice Areas: Employment Discrimination ERISA Labor Law Wage and Hour Wrongful Termination

Our Labor and Employment attorneys regularly practice in all California State and Federal Courts, providing litigation representation in wage and hour matters, complex class actions, wrongful termination claims, discrimination and harassment disputes, non-solicitation and non-competition actions, enforcement of confidentiality agreements, and in unfair competition actions involving former employees.

Badoux's practice spans a national and international scale as he handles a variety of labor and employment litigation matters, including labor relations, harassment claims, wage and hour audits, breach of fiduciary duties and more.

Related Practice Areas: Labor Law Sexual Harassment Wage and Hour Whistleblower - Qui Tam Wrongful Termination

We provide services to our clients regarding Federal, New Jersey and New York statutes, including: Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, National Labor Relations Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act, New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, Conscientious Employee Protection Act, New Jersey Family Leave Act, Civil Rights, ERISA, and Wage and Hour Law.