Noelle West

Noelle West earned degrees in Spanish translation and editing, which paved the way for a career in marketing — and watching the occasional telenovela. Based in Boise, Idaho, she works for the employee time-tracking company TSheets.

Articles by Noelle West

• Why do restaurants and hotels have the most FLSA prosecutions?

  Friday, December 02, 2016

  ​Here's a startling fact: The accommodation and food services industry ranks No. 1 in volume for FLSA wage and hour prosecutions by the U.S. Department of Labor. To put that number in perspective, that's approximately 25 percent of all the cases the DOL has brought since 1985 — almost 30,000 in total. To put it another way, hotels and restaurants across the country — large and small — have paid out more than $276 million in government prosecutions alone.