reach municipalities. Although section 3730(h) provides for the recovery of “2 times the amount of back pay,” it expressly states that its damage provisions are designed to “make the employee whole.” 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h). Congress’ characterization of this remedy as compensatory is entitled to great weight, as the question of whether a statute “is civil or punitive in nature is initially one of statutory construction.” Seling v. Young, 531 U.S. 250, -, 121 S.Ct. 727, 734 (2001). Moreover, in other statutes where Congress has provided for the doubling of lost wages, see, e.g., 29 U.S.C. § 216(b) (Fair Labor Standards Act), such damages have been considered compensatory, rather than punitive in nature. See Brooklyn Sav. Bank v. O’Neil, 324 U.S. 697, 707, 65 S.Ct. 895, 89 L.Ed. 1296 (1945) (<HOLDING>); but see Trans World Airlines, Inc. v.
holding right to liquidated damages under fair labor standards act nonwaivable holding that claim for damages based on repair estimate is not a liquidated damage holding that liquidated damages under fair labor standards act constitutes compensation for the retention of a workmans pay which might result in damages too obscure and difficult of proof for estimate other than by liquidated damages recognizing that liquidated damages under the flsa  are compensation not a penalty or punishment  holding that because liquidated damages under the adea are punitive in nature a jurys award of state punitive damages and adea liquidated damages constitutes a double recovery and therefore reducing the total recovery by the amount of the liquidated damages award