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By Michael D. Thompson

From restaurants in New York to childcare providers in Arkansas to the garment industry in Southern California, Department of Labor investigators continue to uncover FLSA violations by conducting unannounced workplace inspections.

Accordingly, in January, we released our Wage and Hour Division Investigation Checklist for employers and have received terrific feedback…

By Michael Kun

Understandably, employers have celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 564 U.S. —,  — S.Ct. —, 180 L. Ed. 2d 374 (2011) and AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. —, 131 S.Ct. 1740, 179 L.Ed.2d 742 (2011).  At the very least, those cases would seem…