Overtime, retirement security rules aim to put more money in the pockets of America’s families

A hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay. Our new rule will benefit millions of workers, including many who have been working more than 40 hours per week without any extra pay by ensuring they gain overtime protections or a raise in salary or compensation level.

• Learn more about the overtime rule
• Blog: What the overtime rule means for workers
• Video: Restoring and extending overtime protections

Our final retirement security rule will protect millions of workers who rely on advice from trusted professionals on how to invest their savings. This rule makes sure the advice people get is in their best interest, not the interest of the person providing advice.

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We recovered $3.2 million in back wages and damages for 890 construction workers in Arizona from four contractors.

A contractor with a history of failing to protect employees working in trenches from potentially deadly harm faces more than $1 million in penalties after OSHA investigators found employees in Guam working in trenches deeper than 5 feet without required safety equipment. The company also failed to provide adequate means to exit trenches. Excavations can collapse in seconds and lead to serious and often fatal injuries as workers are buried under cubic yards of soil, each weighing as much as 3,000 lbs.

A Virginia concrete contractor must pay nearly $1.2 million after misclassifying 29 employees as independent contractors and failing to pay proper overtime.

A mine manager at a limestone quarry in New York has admitted to causing the death of a mechanic after overriding the safety features of a crane that struck and killed the worker.

Join us for our online forum on May 8-9, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CT, focusing on laws covering wages, safety and workplace issues in construction.

OSHA found 70 violations at a Pennsylvania facility of Hanover Foods Corp., a large manufacturer with a history of poor compliance, and proposed $761,876 in penalties.

We’re sharing ways employers can actively provide safer work environments for women in construction and extraction jobs.

If you have a disability and are considering federal employment, learn more about the Schedule A hiring authority and what it’s like to work at the Department of Labor from Paula Comer and other employees with disabilities.

Instead of getting mad at workers for "quiet quitting" or "rage applying" employers should pay their workers a living wage and treat them with the dignity and respect they deserve.
-@ActSecJulieSu

• USA Today: New Biden rule would make 4 million white-collar workers eligible for overtime pay
• Associated Press: Coal miners are getting new protections from silica dust linked to black lung disease
• New York Times: Who Can Be Trusted for Retirement Advice? New Rules Strengthen Protections.
• Bloomberg Law: Child Labor Violators’ Profits in Labor Solicitor’s Crosshairs