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USDOL Provides Enforcement Statistics On FLSA Breastmilk-Break Requirement

The U.S. Labor Department recently responded to our July 2012 Freedom of Information Act request for documents relating to its enforcement of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 7(r)....more

Wage and Hour Series: Meal Breaks—A Different Kind of Off-the-Clock Concern

In this, our fifth post in this series discussion on wage and hour issues in the 21st century, we address one of the latest and greatest threats to employers in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) arena: meal breaks. Although...more