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News Release: SAN DIEGO – Amid soaring prices in its residential real estate market – with homes selling for an average of $800,000 – a federal investigation has found a San Diego construction contractor failing to share its prosperity and intentionally failing to pay overtime wages as required to 568 drywall installers, tapers and hangers.
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US Department of Labor awards $3M in incremental funding to continue employment, training services to combat New Jersey’s opioid crisis
News Release: WASHINGTON – In 2010, there were an estimated 1,000 deaths by overdose in New Jersey , 50 percent of them blamed on controlled substances. A decade later, fatal overdoses claimed more than 2,938 residents’ lives. Of those, controlled substances, including opioids, led to 2,585 – or nearly 88 percent – of these deaths.
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US Department of Labor recovers $52K in back wages for 28 workers after investigation of Alabama-based pest control company
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL – In the Southeast, the pest control industry employs more workers than anywhere in the nation, and pays its workers some of the industry’s lowest wages. So, when Beebe’s Pest & Termite Control – operating in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi – failed to pay all of the wages earned by 28 workers, the employer made it even harder for them to make ends meet.
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Notice published by Labor Department on Nov. 17
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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Texas hotel operator agrees to pay back wages, damages to worker fired after reporting unsafe work conditions, seeking medical help
News Release: HOUSTON – All Seasons Hospitality and Investments LLC and owner Tanvir Shahmohd, operator of a Houston-area hotel, has agreed to pay an employee back wages and damages following a U.S. Department of Labor whistleblower investigation.
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Federal court finds Las Vegas company shortchanged employees, orders $1.4M in back wages, damages paid to 1,328 call center workers
News Release: LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas telemarketing enterprise that shortchanged more than 1,328 call center workers has been ordered to pay more than $1.4 million in back wages and liquidated damages by a federal court in San Francisco. The judgement follows a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that found Wellfleet ...
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US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
News Release: BEAUMONT, TX – A Lufkin contractor’s failure to assemble a crane boom properly caused the crane to collapse onto a passing vehicle on Interstate 10 near Beaumont, killing the two occupants in April 2021. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...
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US Department of Labor announces proposal to return to long-standing policy, practice on religious exemption
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a proposal to rescind the final rule “Implementing Legal Requirements Regarding the Equal Opportunity Clause’s Religious Exemption.” The final rule has been in effect since Jan. 8, 2021. The Federal Register will publish the proposal on Nov. 9, ...
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US Department of Labor recovers $85K for ‘benched’ H-1B worker
News Release: PLANO, TX – A customer management consulting company based in Plano “benched” an employee in violation of the federal H-1B visa program by hiring the nonimmigrant worker as a software developer then failing to use the worker and pay the wages promised, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
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US Department of Labor opens online dialogue with stakeholders to expand access among underrepresented communities to Registered Apprenticeships
News Release: WASHINGTON –The U.S. Department of Labor today launched an online dialogue with stakeholders to increase access to Registered Apprenticeships for job seekers in underrepresented communities.
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US Department of Labor files suit to recover ESOP’s losses of $35M from stock sale benefitting board members, children at workers’ expense
News Release: DALLAS – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a complaint in federal court seeking to recover $35 million in losses and alleging that three members of a Carrollton moving and storage company’s board of directors and a trustee of the company’s employee stock ownership plan allowed the sale of the ESOP’s ownership interest for less than its market value in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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US Department of Labor recovers $165K in back wages for 75 employees of three Massachusetts restaurants
News Release: BOSTON – A federal court has entered a consent judgment that recovers $165,044 for 75 workers at three Massachusetts restaurants that intentionally failed to pay overtime wages. The consent judgment also orders the defendants to pay $77,750 in civil money penalties given the willful nature of the violations. ...
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US Department of Labor marks 7th annual National Apprenticeship Week
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the kickoff of the seventh annual National Apprenticeship Week , Nov. 15-21, a Presidential proclamation on apprenticeship and the launch of a new collaborative effort to expand, diversify and modernize Registered Apprenticeships in the U.S.
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US Department of Labor’s final rule sets limits on amount of non-tipped work tipped employees can do when tip credit applied, defines tipped work
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a final rule that sets reasonable limits on the amount of time tipped employees can spend in non-tipped activities when the employer receives a tip credit. The rule clarifies that an employer may only take a tip credit for the hours when an employee is doing work that is tip-producing or engaged in tasks that directly support tip producing work.
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US Department of Labor cites Connecticut aircraft parts manufacturer for failing to protect employees from toxic substance exposures
News Release: HARTFORD, CT – A Connecticut aircraft parts manufacturer did not take required steps to identify potential exposures and protect employees from hexavalent chromium and cadmium – both known carcinogens – at its Bloomfield facility, a U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety inspection has found.
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Federal court orders Louisiana farm, owners to stop retaliation after operator denied workers’ request for water, screamed obscenities, fired shots
News Release: ROSEDALE, LA – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained two agreed preliminary injunctions in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Louisiana in Baton Rouge to prevent a Rosedale farm, its owner and anyone acting on their behalf, from intimidating, threatening, restraining, coercing, black listing, discharging or in any manner discriminating against any person who has engaged in any protected activity.
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For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
News Release: ROSELLE, IL – For the sixth time in seven years, a federal workplace inspection has found a Roselle construction contractor putting workers at risk of serious injury or death by defying federal requirements to ensure the use of fall protection.
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Sunpro Solar’s owner cited again for exposing workers to fall hazards after investigation at Naples work site; faces $160K in penalties
News Release: NAPLES, FL – Despite being cited twice in two years for exposing workers to dangerous fall hazards, one of the nation’s leading residential solar panel installation contractors has again violated federal workplace safety requirements, this time at a Naples work site.
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Federal court orders Beaver County gas station, convenience store to pay nearly $300K in back wages, damages, penalties for wage, overtime violations
News Release: MONACA, PA – A federal court has ordered a Beaver County gas station and convenience store to cease violating the Fair Labor Standards Act and pay back wages and liquidated damages to two underpaid employees. The judgment follows a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that determined the owners of Monaca Sunoco, located at 1479 Old Brodhead Road, intentionally underpaid a married couple who lived and worked there.
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US Department of Labor relaunches EARN web site to help make public, private sector workplaces more inclusive for people with disabilities
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the newly redesigned Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion web site.
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