By Labor Gazette | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, NC – The U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, Charlotte Division, has entered a consent judgment and order between the U.S. Department of Labor and Steven Matthew Good, William H. Winn Jr., SmartCore LLC, and the SmartCore LLC Group Health Benefit Plan requiring them to pay $21,404 to the plan participants to cover unpaid medical claims or to reimburse their contributions to the plan.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA – After a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor, federal contractor Cintas Corp. – based in Cincinnati, Ohio – has agreed to pay $424,463 in back pay and interest to resolve hiring and pay discrimination allegations against 197 applicants and employees.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, TN – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to reinstate a former employee who TVA placed on paid administrative leave, and then later terminated in retaliation for raising nuclear safety concerns.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: ORLANDO, FL – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Flipper's Pizza T. & B. Inc. – operating 11 Central Florida Flippers Pizzeria restaurants – has paid $27,425 in back wages to 70 employees for violating the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The employer also paid $1,810 in civil money penalties for a child labor violation.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: MOUNT DORA, FL - After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), AG Labor LLC – based in Plant City, Florida – has paid $16,332 in back wages and damages to 44 employees for violating requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the H-2A visa program. The employer also paid $2,082 in civil money penalties for the H-2A violations.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: NATCHEZ, MS – AJFC Community Action Inc. – a Natchez, Mississippi-based non-profit agency providing Head Start services to children – has paid $62,603 in back wages to 33 employees after a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigation identified overtime violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: CRESTVIEW, FL – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Lockheed Martin Corp. has paid $327,271 in back wages and liquidated damages to 20 employees for violating provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA) at a Crestview, Florida, work site.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: MONTGOMERYVILLE, PA - A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has awarded $1,047,399 in lost wages and punitive damages to two former employees of a Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania, manufacturer after a jury found the company and its owner fired them in retaliation for their participation in a federal safety investigation.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: BOLINGBROOK, IL – The U.S. Department of Labor and the Joint Outreach Task Group will provide information about the benefits available to current and former nuclear weapons workers from covered facilities, and their families, under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act on ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: GLENDALE, CA – A Glendale, California, software engineering company has paid $48,193 to one employee after a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigation found the employer violated labor provisions of the H-1B foreign labor certification program. WHD investigators found Assigncorp ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: CLINTON TWP, MI – Brickworks Property Restoration – a masonry company based in Clinton Township, Michigan – will pay $130,788 in back wages to 58 employees after the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) found the employer violated the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) overtime and recordkeeping provisions.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 22, 2019
The US Labor Department published a four page notice on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 22, 2019
The US Labor Department published a one page proposed rule on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 21, 2019
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 21, 2019
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 21, 2019
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ –An Administrative Law Judge in the Department of Labor ordered West Valley Ear, Nose and Throat – a medical clinic based in Phoenix, Arizona – to pay $15,000 in civil penalties after the employer violated federal law by requesting that five employees submit to polygraph tests.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 20, 2019
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
