With the fiscal year coming to a close, government and private entities have gone through their financial records, revealing some startling findings. Time and attendance violations in Connecticut have totaled more than $6.5 million during the past year, causing state investigators to celebrate the fact as victory for the rights of workers.

According to the local Hartford newspaper Connecticut Plus, Governor Dannel Malloy stated the Connecticut Department of Labor, Division of Wage and Workplace Standards helped employees recover back pay for mismanaged overtime wage policy and violations of the federal minimum wage law. In fact, DOL officials returned $900,000 to workers who were not remunerated according to minimum wage standards or for work conducted in excess of the 40-hour workweek.

In addition, the Connecticut DOL investigated 388 cases of violations of child labor laws and personnel files throughout the year. Gary K. Pechie, head of the agency's wage and workplace standards division, explained the majority of the work he conducts arises from employees calling in complaining of payroll and paid time off issues. Moreover, the state agency delivered stop orders to 181 businesses in an effort to motivate them fairly compensate their workers.

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