{"id":424939,"date":"2024-11-22T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=424939"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"US-Labor-seeks-to-distribute-wages-owed-to-workers-with-its-online-WOW-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/US-Labor-seeks-to-distribute-wages-owed-to-workers-with-its-online-WOW-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"US Labor seeks to distribute wages owed to workers with its online \u2018WOW\u2019 tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEDEDO, Guam\u2014<\/strong>With the year coming to an end, the U.S. Department of Labor is eager to return $203,978 in wages recovered by its Wage and Hour Division\u2019s Honolulu District Office to 157 workers who have earned them and encourages people to use the Workers Owed Wages online tool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO:<\/strong> Anyone who believes they may be owed back wages or knows someone who may be owed wages are encouraged to use the Workers Owed Wages online tool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT:<\/strong> The laws enforced by the Wage and Hour Division provide the foundation for U.S. workers\u2019 rights, including the rights to be paid legally required wages and other important protections. Among the division\u2019s top priorities is putting wages recovered by its investigations swiftly into the hands of people who earned them. The \u201cWOW\u201d online tool provides workers a quick and easy way to verify if they are eligible to claim wages an employer or former employer may owe them. The tool is available in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong> The Honolulu District Office is responsible for back wage distribution in Guam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:<\/strong> Now. Anyone who believes they may be owed wages are encouraged to use the WOW tool as the year comes to an end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LINK:<\/strong> Anyone who uses the WOW search tool can simply input their current or former employer\u2019s name to learn if the division is holding wages on their behalf. <strong><em>(PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/18983e63e19da3ae4ff37d75c3277364.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>Labor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEDEDO, Guam\u2014With the year coming to an end, the U.S. Department of Labor is eager&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}