DCF to pay $1.8 million in back wages to child protective investigators
The Florida Department of Children and Families has agreed to pay $1.8 million in gross back wages to 432 current and former child protective investigators after the U.S. Labor Department found it violated federal labor law.
The settlement comes about three years after the Labor Department investigated DCF and concluded its child protective investigators in Miami and Jacksonville regional offices had worked unrecorded and unpaid overtime hours. Read more»