Wage Theft, Back Pay & Worker Settlement Watch

Track wage recovery for US workers. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division and state labor department back wage recoveries of $100,000 or more with the employer, the number of workers and how affected workers are paid or claim; class and collective action settlements for unpaid overtime, off-the-clock work, misclassification, tip theft and meal break violations with claim deadlines and estimated payouts; DOL Workers Owed Wages search updates and state unclaimed wage fund campaigns; state wage claim, small claims and wage lien process changes; industry-wide enforcement sweeps in restaurants, construction, care, agriculture, gig and warehouse work; employer debarments and criminal wage theft prosecutions; and state wage theft laws and penalty changes taking effect. Prefer the Department of Labor, state labor departments and attorneys general, court-approved settlement administrators and established labor reporting; ignore attorney advertising and claim-filing services that charge a fee. Put the employer or agency first in the title with the amount and the claim deadline. Use high severity for a settlement or recovery of $5 million or more, a claim deadline within 30 days, or a sweep in an industry employing a million or more workers. Return no more than 8 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what happened, who is owed, how to claim, the deadline, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.