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Recent News About U.S. Department of Labor
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A Honolulu addiction treatment center was ordered to pay nearly half a million dollars in back wages to 34 care workers to remedy illegal pay practices.
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JGN Services, a roofing contracting company based in Lake Mary, Fla., has been fined $55,841 by the Wage and Hour Division for violating child labor regulations after a 15-year-old minor suffered severe head and spinal injuries due to a lack of federally required fall protection on a worksite.
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The Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement requested the Mexican government review workers’ rights violations at Unique Fabricating’s Querétaro facility in Mexico.
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A Massachusetts restaurant owner must pay punitive damages and stop retaliation against its employees for a Labor Department investigation.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has seen a 69% increase in illegal child employment by U.S. companies since 2018.
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The U.S. Department of Labor, Internal Revenue Service and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation recently released notices announcing changes to the 2023 Form 5500 Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan and Form 5500-SF Short Form.
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The U.S. Department of Labor awarded $50 million in grants to 15 community colleges in 14 states, enabling them to expand access to education and training for well-paying jobs and to meet employers’ and workers’ skill development needs.
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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.
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Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh visited Tulsa, Okla., to highlight the need for economic justice for underserved communities, particularly Black communities.
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A U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation determined the death of a 17-year-old Pennsylvania worker, who was partially pulled into a woodchipper, could have been prevented if the company followed federal safety standards.
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The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration reopened the public comment period on changes to its Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program and the proposed amendment to the Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2002-51.
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The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found employees at a cattle processing plant in Lone Jack, Mo., were exposed to high levels of carbon dioxide.
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Two Louisville coffee shops allowed managers to keep a portion of 125 employees’ tips, which violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by diverting tips to the managers.
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The U.S. Department of Labor marked the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act with events and updated resources to commemorate its impact on millions of American workers and their families.
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A Manchester chimney services provider has settled claims that it broke the anti-retaliation provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act by paying $26,163 to three employees.
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A Colorado construction company owner is facing a felony manslaughter charge related to a federal investigation into a deadly trench collapse in November 2021.
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The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration ruled two Ohio industrial companies could have prevented the injuries suffered by employees had they put proper safety protections in place.
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A Manchester, N.H., chimney services contractor has paid $26,163 to its workers to resolve allegations their employer violated the Fair Labor Standards Act's anti-retaliation provisions enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.
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The owner of a Vail, Colo. construction company has turned himself in to local law enforcement following the issuance of an arrest warrant from the Summit County Sheriff's Office in Breckenridge.
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Two Wisconsin forestry companies must pay 263 workers $1.1 million in unpaid wages five years after the employees left their homes in Guatemala and Mexico for jobs they were promised.