Does an employer owe you back pay? How to check for and claim unpaid wages

Does an employer owe you back pay? How to check for and claim unpaid wages
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Do you have unpaid wages from an employer you can claim from the federal government? It's simple to check. The Department of Labor recovered $257 million in back pay in 2020. The department recovered the cash from employers who owed workers money due to paying under the minimum wage, for example, or withholding overtime pay.
The Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor over the last five years has recovered back wages for more than 1.3 million workers. If the government agency discovers that an employer owes you back wages, it can make the company pay out the difference. However, if the agency can't locate you to give you the money (for example, you moved or changed your name), it will hold onto the back wages for you to claim.

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