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DOL to No Longer Seek Pre-litigation Liquidated Damages

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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced in a field assistance bulletin that it will no longer seek liquidated damages in its wage and hour investigations.  This change, effective immediately, marks a significant...more

Fisher Phillips

DOL Provides Long-Awaited Damages Relief to Employers in Wage and Hour Investigations: 3 Top Takeaways

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The Department of Labor (DOL) just rolled back a Biden-era practice of demanding that employers pay liquidated damages – in an amount equal to back pay – to resolve wage and hour investigations. The Trump administration...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

USDOL States It Will No Longer Routinely Seek Liquidated Damages In Administrative Investigations: A Return To Normalcy

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The last several years have been quite worrisome to me, as a management side practitioner, on the issue of USDOL agency-initiated liquidated damages assessments. It used to be that only when the USDOL took an entity to court...more

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