Reports: Obama to issue executive order expanding overtime pay

Fred Barbash The Washington Post 3/12/2014

President Obama will issue an executive order today expanding the number of people who qualify for overtime pay under federal labor law, according to news reports.

According to the Associated Press, the directive is designed to help salaried workers, such as fast-food shift supervisors or convenience store managers, who […]

Stimulus-Backed Green Energy Company ECOtality May Declare Bankruptcy

DOE suspends stimulus payments after company’s SEC filings

Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon 8/12/2013

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has suspended stimulus payments to a major green energy company after the company said it is having trouble finding financing and may have to declare bankruptcy.

ECOtality admitted that possibility in a filing with […]

‘Extortion’: Why Did the Labor Department ‘Drop the Hammer’ on Oregon Farmers?

Becket Adams The Blaze 8/31/2012

Oregon farmers and state officials are furious with the U.S. Labor Department after federal authorities in July put a hold on thousands of dollars worth of blueberries, citing “widespread” record-keeping and minimum wage violations, Eric Mortenson reports for The Oregonian.

“[T]he department invoked a “hot goods” provision of labor law […]

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