Is it too much to ask to be paid or paid a fair wage?
Oh, overtime. I'll be darn. See, the employees needed to actually leave on time and go to their second and third jobs.
North Carolina needs to conduct these assessments across the spectrum of industry in North Carolina, including hospitals.
US Labor Department initiative combats widespread labor violations in North Carolina’s residential care industry
RALEIGH, N.C. — An ongoing enforcement initiative conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division that focuses on the residential care industry in North Carolina has found widespread violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping provisions, particularly among group home facilities in the counties of Buncombe, Cumberland, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg and Wake....
No recordkeeping? Joking.
An investigation by the division’s Albuquerque District Office found that the employer failed to pay employees required overtime premium for hours they worked beyond their scheduled workdays. Hours spent traveling to and from work sites, and any unscheduled hours that employees worked beyond their normal shifts, were paid at straight time rather than the time and-one-half of the employees’ regular rates of pay required by the FLSA when employees work beyond 40 hours in a workweek. Overtime hours that were scheduled had been paid at time and-one-half. Employees were shorted their overtime premium when the extra hours worked were unscheduled. The company also failed to maintain the required record keeping....
