News and reports from the Department of Labor.

US Department of Labor recovers $348K in back wages, liquidated damages for 144 Arizona construction workers willfully denied overtime pay

Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. recupera $348K en salarios y compensación por daños para 144 trabajadores de la construcción en Arizona

US Department of Labor issues ‘Fair Recruitment Guidance’ as part of multi-agency effort to promote ethical recruitment of temporary migrant workers

Federal court sentences Florida pharmacy owner to pay $865K in restitution after US Department of Labor finds healthcare fraud

Statement by US Secretary of Labor Walsh on May Jobs Report

Central New Jersey facility to pay $273K, take corrective actions to resolve COVID-related respirator violations

US Department of Labor finds Miami electrical subcontractor underpaid eight workers $37K in pay, benefits

There were four notices published by the Labor Department in week ending June 18, according to the Federal Register.

The United States Department of Labor wants to remind Midwest employers that workers need protection from dangers caused by heat illness, both indoors and outdoors.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force, which includes the U.S. Department of Labor as a member, today issued the “Strategy to Prevent Importation of Goods Mined, Produced, or Manufactured with Forced Labor in the People’s Republic of China," as required by the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

News Release: SUCCASUNNA, NJ - A federal court has approved a consent judgment ordering a Succasunna landscaping company and its owner to pay $400,000 in back wages and damages after the U.S. Department of Labor found the employer denied 32 of its workers the overtime pay they earned.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration has proposed nearly $1.2 million in civil penalties to M-Class Mining LLC, a Macedonia, Illinois, coal mine operator. MSHA cited the operator for continuing to operate the mine without evacuating miners with a fire underground and failing to notify MSHA of the fire. The fire broke out on a longwall section on Aug. 13, 2021.

News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC); Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA); and Representative Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) sent a letter to U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) perform a study on the role of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in the pharmaceutical supply chain.

News Release: SEATTLE - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation that uncovered a farm labor contractor’s already costly failures to protect migrant and seasonal agricultural workers took an unexpected turn when investigators found the same employer had denied 165 farm laborers more than $80,000 in overtime wages for hours spent cleaning the popular Gorge Amphitheater.

A Wisconsin court has sentenced a former Wisconsin union president who embezzled $219,000 from an employee benefit plan to eight months of home confinement.