Issue: Engaging in discrimination/harassment practices
A complaining party may recover punitive damages against a respondent if the complaining party demostrates that the respondent engaged in a discriminatory practice or discriminatory practices with "malice or with reckless indifference to the federally protected rights of an aggrieved individual."

• 14-100 Employees: $50,000
• 101-200 Employees: $100,000
• 201-500 Employees: $200,000
• 500+ Employees: $300,000*

*These numbers represent compensatory damages only and do not reflect punitive damages

Issue: Failure to complete and maintain I9 Forms:

• Employers who fail to properly complete, retain, or make I-9 Forms available for inpection, fines range from $100 to $1,100 per individual I-9.
  
• For employers who knowingly hire or knowingly continue to employ unauthorized workers, civil penalites range from $250 to $11,000 per violation.
  
• Fines for hiring unauthorized workers amount from $250 to $5,500 per worker depending on the prior history of violation.
  
• Employers can also be barred from competing for government contracts for a year if they knowingly hire or continue to employ unauthorized aliens. Paperwork violations can also result in significant fines.
  
• Each mistake or missing item on a form can result in a $100 penalty up to $1000 for each form. A missing form would automatically be assessed at $1000.
  
  

  Issue: Failure to post and display federal and state employment laws and regulations
  Failure to display labor law posters can result in fines up to $7,500 per inspection.
  
  Issue: Improperly classifying employees against Fair Labor Standards Act guidelines, failing to pay minimum wage or required overtime.
  A penalty of up to $1,100 per violation may be assessed against any person who repeatedly or willfully violates Section 6 (minimum wage) or Section 7 (overtime) of the Act; in addition to back pay, the employer must pay for the difference between wages paid and minimum wage and/or overtime.