Workers may be owed unpaid wages

Louisiana workers are still owed $2 million in unpaid wages and the US Labor Department wants to return it.

In Fiscal Year 2023, investigations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division recovered more than $212 million in back wages for nearly 163,000 workers.

While this figure can change daily, roughly $100 million is still unclaimed in the nation, and in Louisiana that figure is nea…