{"id":7216,"date":"2024-01-25T16:10:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T21:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/25\/nearly-12500-texans-are-owed-back-wages-heres-how-to-check-if-youre-one-of-them\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T16:10:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T21:10:37","slug":"nearly-12500-texans-are-owed-back-wages-heres-how-to-check-if-youre-one-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/25\/nearly-12500-texans-are-owed-back-wages-heres-how-to-check-if-youre-one-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 12,500 Texans are owed back wages. Here\u2019s how to check if you&#8217;re one of them."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Last year, the U.S. Department of Labor collected more than $212 million in back wages owed to 163,000 people, but the agency is still looking for many of those cheated by their employers. Now, a recently improved searchable database could help reunite workers with that unpaid overtime. The Labor Department&#8217;s Wage and Hour Division sends out checks to the last known address of employees owed back wages, but many bounce back because of a move or other circumstances, according to agency officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the U.S. Department of Labor collected more than $212 million in back wages owed to 163,000 people, but the agency is still looking for many of those cheated by their employers. Now, a recently improved searchable database could help reunite workers with that unpaid overtime. The Labor Department&#8217;s Wage and Hour Division sends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}