News and reports from the Department of Labor.

Two central Pennsylvania rehabilitation centers agreed to more than $500,000 in damages to resolve Fair Labor Standards Act violation after overtime and record keeping violations.

News Release: America has a problem: with more than 10 million unfilled jobs and a monumental skills gap, the United States is approaching dire economic straits. Apprenticeships are a potent remedy to fill the gaps in our workforce and offer Americans work experience, education, and a clear path to a well-paying job.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Employee Benefits Security Administration has proposed updates to its Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program , including a self-correction component for employers who fail to send employee salary withholding contributions or participant loan repayments to retirement plans in a timely manner.

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor Julie Su visited the Hospitality Training Academy in Los Angeles on Nov. 17, 2022, to see how its Registered Apprenticeship Programs are providing workers - especially women of color - the training and skills they need to secure good union jobs. The visit coincided with National Women in Apprenticeship Day.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded $1,253,728 to the Kentucky Education and Labor Cabinet to help the commonwealth start a Short-Time Compensation program, a unique approach to prevent worker layoffs by enabling states to pay partial unemployment benefits when an employer must reduce employees’ work hours during economic downturns.

A Michigan man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his involvement in a fraudulent scheme to obtain COVID-19-related unemployment assistance and small business loans in 12 different states.

The former administrative manager of a carpenters’ union pension fund was sentenced today to six months of home confinement and three years of probation for embezzling approximately $140,000 and making false statements on a required report to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID KANIA, 63, of Middlefield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to two months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for offenses stemming from his fraud against several state-run wage subsidy and job training programs.

A downtown Los Angeles man pleaded guilty today to federal drug trafficking and fraud charges, admitting, among other things, that he fraudulently obtained nearly $5.5 million in COVID-related jobless benefits by using the identities of California state prison inmates and other third parties.

A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty

A Providence man who filed a fraudulent application for unemployment benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, and received more than $7,000 in ill-gotten payments, was sentenced on Tuesday to thirty days of incarceration to be followed by three months home confinement, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha.

A Fredericksburg man pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to obtain pandemic unemployment benefits. His family members were also indicted for their roles in the scheme, along with a separate mail theft and bank fraud scheme.

A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man today admitted that he illegally obtained more than $400,000 in unemployment insurance benefits, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

A Pound, Virginia man, who conspired with at least 37 others to steal pandemic unemployment benefits, was sentenced yesterday to 36 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $18,160 in restitution.

Anthony Silva, 37, of Hampton, pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and mail fraud, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today