Enforcement statistics related to the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act do not show much change from fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2023, according to data published by the Labor Department’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD).
The data showed that in FY 2023, WHD closed 334 cases in which it found an FMLA violation. The agency reported that 395 employees received back wages of nearly $988,000 in FMLA violation cases in FY 2023. WHD did not report the total number of FMLA complaints it received or the number of complaints that it dismissed without finding a violation.
In the FLSA category, WHD reported that it collected $156.2 million in back wages for 135,067 employees in FY 2023. From this total, $130.7 million went to 106,759 employees for overtime violations; $20.9 million went to 31,158 employees for minimum wage violations; and the remainder went to 6,645 employees for tip-related violations and 60 employees for retaliation violations. WHD did not provide the number of overall FLSA cases it closed or the breakdown of overtime violations and minimum wage violations.
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