By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: Who: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: CONCORD, NH - The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire has entered a consent preliminary injunction to prevent a West Lebanon home healthcare business and its president from coercing employees to “kick back" wages recovered for them by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. The court also ordered them to stop interfering with a current investigation.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - In the first visit to Jordan by a senior U.S. Department of Labor official in more than two decades, Deputy Undersecretary of Labor for International Affairs Thea Lee met with government officials, and labor union and business leaders for discussions on how the two nations can cooperatively help strengthen workers’ rights in the Middle East kingdom.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: DELMONT, PA - Following a three-day trial and three years of litigation, a jury in a federal court in Pennsylvania has determined a Delmont restaurant and its owner intentionally shortchanged 15 servers, dishwashers, bussers and cooks more than $214,000 in wages, confirming the findings of a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation and litigation by its Office of the Solicitor.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Citing an unprecedent rise in global energy costs, Century Aluminum Co. - the nation’s largest producer of primary aluminum - announced plans in June 2022 to curtail operations and begin the idling process at its Hawesville, Kentucky, smelter until energy prices return to more normalized levels. By August, all operations had ceased at the aluminum smelter with layoffs affecting more than 600 workers.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: Participant: Chatham Village Foods. Wareham, Massachusetts. Description: A division of the T. Marzetti Company, Chatham Village Foods has about 200 workers in Wareham who produce croutons for the bread and bakery product manufacturing industry. The production process includes ingredient mixing, proofing, ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
The US Labor Department published a three page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: US Department of Labor, Swank Enterprises align to promote workplace
By DOL Newswire | Nov 2, 2022
News Release: NAMPA, ID - A federal investigation has recovered $88,185 in back wages and liquidated damages for 90 caregivers employed by an Idaho home care agency whose pay practices denied the workers their legally earned wages, including overtime.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 2, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Less than one month after the U.S. Department of Labor cited Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC with more than $1.6 million in penalties for putting its workers' safety at risk, federal inspectors have issued citations for similar violations at store locations in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, and added $2,777,640 in proposed penalties now owed by one of the nation's largest discount retailers.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 2, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Less than one month after the U.S. Department of Labor cited Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC with more than $1.6 million in penalties for putting its workers’ safety at risk, federal inspectors have issued citations for similar violations at store locations in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, and added $2,777,640 in proposed penalties now owed by one of the nation’s largest discount retailers.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 2, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has denied a Staten Island health provider’s attempt to prevent the U.S. Department of Labor from pursuing damages for a COVID-19 whistleblower whose private state whistleblower claim was dismissed.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal court order to prevent an Arizona agricultural employer from continuing to abuse agricultural guest workers.pdf) , exposing them to dangerous workplace conditions - including requiring them to operate unsafe vehicles and housing them in overcrowded quarters - and from discriminating against those who complained.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement after the Department of Education announced final regulations which fail to address major problems in the federal student loan system...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia framing contractor faces $269,594 in proposed penalties after the company was again found exposing employees to deadly fall hazards at a residential worksite in the city’s Roxborough section on April 21, 2022.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2022
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $51,217 in restored tips and back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages from the operator of three Cumberland County, Maine, restaurants that denied 25 workers their full overtime wages or kept portions of their earned tips illegally.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia framing contractor faces $269,594 in proposed penalties after the company was again found exposing employees to deadly fall hazards at a residential worksite in the city’s Roxborough section on April 21, 2022.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has denied a Staten Island health provider’s attempt to prevent the U.S. Department of Labor from pursuing damages for a COVID-19 whistleblower whose private state whistleblower claim was dismissed.
