News and reports from the Department of Labor.

For months, 11 employees at a Somerset home healthcare agency faced costly medical bills, unaware their employer had failed to remit contributions withheld from their wages to their healthcare plans, leading to a lapse in their medical insurance.An investigation at Cumberland Behavior Group LLC by the U.S.

News Release: Join House Republicans Tuesday evening at 5:00 pm ET for a live roundtable conversation with guests about children’s education. Every student deserves to achieve their full potential. But three years of disrupted learning has exposed deep flaws in our education system: abrupt and seemingly endless school ...

A small business group is cheering the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to block a Biden administration attempt to mandate vaccine and testing rules for large companies. It would have meant up to 22 million more people would have been required to get a vaccine against COVID-19, or wear masks at work and be tested every week.

News Release: HONOLULU - A U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division investigation has found a Hawaii flooring contractor misclassified some employees as independent contractors and paid others straight-time wages for all hours when they worked over 40 in a workweek, both violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

News Release: TAMPA, FL - An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor led to major changes by a Tampa employer in its pay practices that have the potential to affect the lives of more than 2,000 local workers.

News Release: NEW YORK - A federal court in New York has ordered a Long Island pizzeria and its owner to pay $178,000 in back wages, damages and civil money penalties after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the employer’s pay practices shortchanged workers when it failed to pay overtime wages.

News Release: BURLINGTON, NC – To ensure nursing mothers can care for their newborns and earn a living, federal law requires employers to designate a place for them to express milk privately without fear of intrusion.

News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY – While nursing home workers continue to put themselves at-risk as the nation battles the ongoing pandemic, federal investigators found that the pay practices of three Oklahoma City-area nursing homes denied 129 workers all of their hard-earned wages.

News Release: BOSTON – An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor has led the fiduciaries of a Utica, New York, employee stock ownership plan to agree to return $431,000 to the plan’s participants and take action to resolve its Employee Retirement Income Security Act violations.

News Release: DELAIR, NJ - Aluminum Shapes LLC will affirm a $1 million penalty and accept 10 willful, 15 repeat and 55 serious violations and one other-than-serious citation in a settlement agreement to resolve two long-running U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration cases related to a fatality and a series of employee injuries at the company’s Delair plant.

News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the awards of $14 million in cooperative agreements to support a broad set of actions by two projects intended to combat child labor, forced labor and human trafficking, which affects more than 200 million children, women and men worldwide.

A Southern California construction company was recently found liable for $72,342 in back wages and liquidated damages by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) after investigators found 12 employees were not paid for work performed before and after scheduled shifts.

The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a complaint against A OK Walker Autoworks and owner Miles Walker, of Peachtree City, for paying a former worker with thousands of oily pennies.

A federal investigation recovered $270,984 in back wages and liquidated damages for 166 workers of a Princeton skilled nursing care facility. The employer failed to pay proper overtime as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

A Hawaii company that provides security officers to the state’s National Guard, the Hawaii State Arts Museum, Foster Botanical Gardens and other public and private facilities, will pay $1,539,773 in back wages and liquidated damages to 171 guards – and civil penalties – after a federal investigation determined the company denied workers overtime pay illegally.Investigators with the U.S.