Wage and Hour Division

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  Norwegian Cruise Line to pay $500k for violating wage rules

  By Alex Vorro  |  February 16, 2012

  Tis the season for troubles while luxuriously relaxing and overeating on the high seas. While the rest of the world is still aghast over the Carnival Corp.’s Costa Concordia shipwreck off the coast of Italy, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is cracking down on another cruise company a little...

• Labor: The year of the “gotcha”

  By Salvador Simao  |  January 6, 2012

  Employers must beware of increased wage and hour enforcement and litigation in 2012

• Labor: Independent contractors and your business model

  By Alfred Robinson Jr.  |  November 7, 2011

  Joining forces, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to coordinate efforts to resolve employer practices of misclassifying employees as independent contractors.

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  DOL scours restaurants for labor law violations

  By Ashley Post  |  November 7, 2011

  Foodservice corporations, beware: The Department of Labor (DOL) is on the hunt for labor law violations at restaurants across the country.

• Labor: Are your meal break practices lawful?

  By Charles McDonald  |  September 28, 2011

  Are your company’s meal break practices lawful? If not, here is a hypothetical example of what it could cost you for employees earning $10 per hour who fail to receive an uninterrupted 30-minute meal break on 60 separate days.