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Eurofresh Inc. of Willcox, AZ, has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division to pay $937,460 in back wages and interest to 587 U.S. workers following an investigation into company practices related to hiring temporary, non-immigrant foreign agricultural workers.

The company is in bankruptcy, and the agreement includes $245,482 which is equal to five percent of the $4,909,644 unsecured back wages sought by the Labor Department.

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A Burlington, Vt., company that makes websites for auto dealers is being ordered to pay more than $138,000 in back overtime pay to employees who had been misclassified as exempt from overtime.

Although federal and Arizona State law provide few guarantees of continued employment, employees are absolutely entitled to be appropriately compensated for the time they do work. Depending on how an employee is classified and/or the type of work actually performed by an employee, Arizona workers may be entitled to receive overtime wages for work in excess of 40 hours per workweek.

The main objective of the Employment Rights Act of 1996 Party II is to make it unlawful for an employer to deduct the wages of an employee who has not agreed in writing to the deduction. Additionally, it does not give employees who have their wages deducted the right to make a claim, if the deduction was required by law (such as deductions for PAYE and National Insurance).

Taikongren's Advice Blog has a nice post setting forth and commenting on many of the various issues swirling about these days on labor in China. The post is entitled,"Taikongren’s definitive 'What’s happening with Chinese Labor' post," and it does a very good job setting out China's labor situation and raising some interesting issues attached to that. If you want to know more about China's current labor situation, I recommend you read it...

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