By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Sixteen people participating in an employee retirement plan sponsored by a now defunct Danville construction company will receive distributions of almost $1 million in assets following an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - The pay practices of a San Antonio company that exclusively hires military veterans to work as security guards violated federal law and shortchanged 79 employees of $57,465 in overtime back wages, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury today issued their 2022 Report to Congress on the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. The report includes information that suggests health plans and health insurance issuers ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
There were 32 press releases published by the House Committee on Education and Labor in January.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: NORTH PORT, FL - Working in the recesses of Apalachicola National Forest on a July day as temperatures neared 100 degrees, the supervisor of two crews hired to clear invasive plants saw one 42-year-old worker was sweating heavily, his hands were trembling, and he seemed confused, unable to respond to commands.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a new program designed to encourage and help America’s miners to get the COVID-19 protections that vaccinations offer.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: BOISE - The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $221,053 in back wages and liquidated damages for 59 drywall installation workers in Idaho after their employer recklessly denied them overtime wages they earned and then lied to investigators about it.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has entered a consent judgment ordering a Brooklyn bus and shuttle service to pay $742,500 in back wages and liquidated damages for overtime wages denied to 368 shuttle drivers, following an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: CREST HILL, IL - A 42-year-old employee of a Crest Hill frozen-pizza manufacturer suffered a fatal injury while cleaning a machine on July 20, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Millions of minors under the age of 18 join the U.S. workforce each year - many in the food industry - and the U.S. Department of Labor is working hard to ensure restaurant employers in the Southeast know their legal obligations regarding the employment of minors and to curb a recent increase in noncompliance.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor - in collaboration with the Departments of the Treasury, State, Commerce, Homeland Security and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative - today issued a Burma Business Advisory highlighting the risks of doing business due to corruption, illicit finance and human rights abuses.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh unveiled the Department of Labor’s “Good Jobs" initiative, a coordinated effort by Biden-Harris administration to improve job quality nationwide, during a speech today at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ 90th Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - As National Human Trafficking Prevention Month concludes, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division continues to support the updated U.S. National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking by committing resources, collaborating with criminal enforcement agencies and providing outreach to combat labor trafficking.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - The U.S. Department of Labor filed suit against a federal contractor that failed to ensure its subcontractors paid 3,964 employees as required at 88 Iowa sites, resulting in $3,348,543 in prevailing wage, overtime and fringe benefit back wages due. The employees removed poultry waste potentially infected with avian flu from the sites.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: FORT MYERS, FL - A Fort Myers heating, ventilating and air conditioning company paid commissions and stipends to a rotation of on-call dispatchers but failed to include those payments in the workers’ rate of pay when calculating overtime in violation of federal law, the U.S. Department of Labor has determined.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON -The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today launched the Hiring Initiative to Reimagine Equity with a roundtable discussion reflecting on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: ABBOTSFORD, WI ‒ At the Abbotsford location of a popular Midwest tire sales-and-service provider, a worker mounting a new tire sustained fatal injuries after the tire came loose and struck him on July 28, 2021. A few weeks later, another worker from the same company suffered a similar fate at a Savage, Minnesota, location on Aug. 17, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh today announced an initiative aimed at improving job quality throughout the country. The “Good Jobs" initiative, led by the Department of Labor, will provide critical information to workers, employers and government entities as they seek to improve job quality, and create access to good union jobs - free from discrimination and harassment - for all workers and job seekers.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Employers must accurately count all the hours employees work and include certain commissions earned when calculating overtime pay due. Failing to do so can lead to violations and result in unexpected costs in the form of back wages and, in some cases, penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, VA - A federal court in Virginia has entered a judgment ordering a Norfolk-based medical staffing agency, which intentionally violated federal laws and denied 1,105 certified nursing aides, licensed practical nurses and registered nurses their rightfully earned overtime wages, to pay more than $7.2 million in back wages and liquidated damages.
