
By Sam Jackson | Mar 7, 2022
President Joe Biden has tasked the U.S. Justice Department with confronting and seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs in the wake of Biden’s State of the Union address.
By Sam Jackson | Mar 6, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $169,728 in wages and penalties after an investigation found that a string of restaurants in Oregon reportedly withheld wages, tips and overtime.

By Sam Jackson | Mar 5, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor plans to host a summit on March 23 to educate the healthcare industry on wage laws and to ensure that healthcare workers receive proper pay and protections.

By Sam Jackson | Mar 3, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a federal court to hold the fiduciaries of a Chicago welfare fund liable for $2.8 million in losses after the fiduciaries allowed funds to be misappropriated.

By Sam Jackson | Mar 3, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration announced a new campaign to help ensure mine operators provide proper training in a Feb. 28 news release.

By Sam Jackson | Feb 26, 2022
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s latest estimates indicate traffic fatalities continued to rise at record levels through the first nine months of 2021.

By Sam Jackson | Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has begun its first national agroforestry survey.

By Sam Jackson | Feb 24, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $159,256 in unpaid wages after an investigation uncovered that a potato farm in Idaho shortchanged its workers.

By Sam Jackson | Feb 24, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $63,000 in back wages after an investigation found that the operator of seven restaurants in Indiana wrongly denied overtime to 17 of its managers.

By Sam Jackson | Feb 17, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation’s California Great-Basin Region announced Feb. 4 that it selected Jesse Castro as manager of its Division of Design and Construction.