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Recent trends in overtime litigation
The housing industry is upside down. There have been so many homes built by the builders that it has resulted in real estate values tumbling. This has resulted in the mortgage companies losing a lot of business as well. Look at the Countrywide debacle. Countrywide was recently purchased (bailed out) by Bank of America. Countrywide and many other mortgage companies sold a lot of sub prime mortgages with adjustable rates and 3 or 5 year balloon payments. We are now seeing the effect of this with the foreclosure industry booming.
Recent Trends in Defending Wage and Hour Claims
Employees that bring wage claims against their employers for unpaid overtime need to be ready for the employer to pull your web browser records. Virtually all desk jobs have a computer sitting right atop of it. Computer use in the workplace is just so prevalent nowadays that it was just a matter of time before employers started to monitor their employees. They do this with keylogging or spy software. With this software, the employer can see what their employees are doing on their computers while at work. This enables the employer to calculate, to the minute, the number of hours that an employee is working and the number of minutes (or hours) that the employee spends on non-work related internet browsing.
Florida Department of Labor
Where’s the Florida Department of Labor? How can you get in touch with the labor board in Florida? Search all you want, and you’re not going to find it. Go ahead, Google it and see what you find. The real reason is that there is no Florida Department of Labor or Florida Labor Board. There is, however, the Federal Department of Labor (DOL), which has several offices in Florida. But you won’t have any luck getting the Department of Labor to help you with anything but federal (Fair Labor Standards Act) wage violations for unpaid overtime and unpaid minimum wages.