The FLSA allows the Department of Labor (Department) or an employee to recover back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages where minimum wage and overtime violations exist. Generally, a 2-year statute of limitations applies to the recovery of back wages and liquidated damages.
In a democracy, the people are the government. Today, we elect people to run the government for us. The people we elect do not, for the most part, run the country in the interest of the people; they run it in the interest of themselves. We are led to believe that we must put our trust in these people.
We the people moved from a republic where we kept the government in check into a democracy where majority ruled and now into an oligarchy where none of the people rule but only an elite class of people. They tell us what we can do and how we can do it â and we allow it to continue.