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| Working ‘Off the Clock’ is Not OK. |
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| Pilot Travel Center employees in #Mississippi "were working through lunch, without pay" ... The employees ended up receiving "$141,096 in back wages and liquidated damages." This award made a difference in the lives of the employees and their loved ones, according to the article below. #workers Here's the intro from the U.S. Department of Labor: "Not paying workers for all of the hours they worked not only harms the workers, but also their families by depriving them of the wages they need to get by. Because of a Wage and Hour Division investigation, the employees at Pilot Travel Center received $141,096 in back wages and liquidated damages. More information about workers’ rights and employers’ responsibilities also is available at www.dol.gov/whd."  |
