News and reports from the Department of Labor.

News Release: URBANA, IL - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal court order requiring an Illinois home healthcare provider to pay 69 workers $1.1 million in back wages and damages for its failure to pay these workers for all hours worked.

Release: Employer: Window World of Southwest Virginia Inc.

The US Labor Department published an eight page notice on Feb. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: DUBLIN, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $20,107 in back wages for a Georgia bank employee who suffered wrongful retaliation and termination after the financial institution violated their rights under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.

News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture expressing concerns with the agency’s proposed changes to the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program packages that limit families from accessing flexible and nutritious food options.

News Release: NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TX - Two workers at a North Texas dental practice will share $15,706 in back wages to be paid by the dentists who fired them for raising concerns about COVID-19 safety measures in Spring 2020, following a federal whistleblower investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Miami-based wholesale plant nursery Pure Beauty Farms has been found to have given foreign visa workers preferential treatment over U.S. workers, while also housing employees in unsafe conditions in Georgia, according to a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.

News Release: On Feb. 14, the federal government announced that it was again extending the deadline for employers to file objections to the disclosure of their EEO-1 data in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Center for Investigative Reporting. The deadline for submitting objections is now March 3.

“The Environment (Executive Session)“ was published in the Senate section on pages S434-S435 on Feb. 16

“THE ENVIRONMENT“ was published in the Senate section on pages S406-S407 on Feb. 15

There were 13 notices published by the Labor Department in week ending Feb. 11, according to the Federal Register.

Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh visited Tulsa, Okla., to highlight the need for economic justice for underserved communities, particularly Black communities.

Release: Employer: BAE Systems Inc., operating as Ordnance Systems Inc.

News Release: KIELER, WI - One of the nation’s largest food safety sanitation services providers has paid $1.5 million in civil money penalties after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the company employed at least 102 children - from 13 to 17 years of age - in hazardous occupations and had them working overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states.

News Release: ALIQUIPPA, PA - As the nation today recognizes the selfless and dedicated work of professional caregivers on National Caregivers Day, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that a federal court has entered a default judgment against an Aliquippa home health provider and its owner, after an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the employer denied 23 home health aides overtime wages.