Tuscaloosa, AL – The U.S. Department of Labor says it will crack down on small grocery stores in Alabama and Mississippi that are violating labor laws.
The director of the department's wage and hour district office in Birmingham, Kenneth Stripling, said the department will be making unannounced visits to ensure that the businesses are not putting law-abiding companies at a disadvantage.
Stripling says that they will be looking at small groceries because that is where they have found problems in the past in the two states. That included more than 125 investigations in 2007 and 2008 that found $114,000 in minimum wage and overtime back pay was owed to 340 workers.
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