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News Release: Employer: Godly Security Agency LLC Investigation site: 1712 Kingsley Ave. Orange Park, FL 32073 Investigation findings: U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found Godly Security Agency LLC - a security service provider - failed to compensate some employees for all hours worked. ...
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There were 27 notices published by the Labor Department in October, according to the Federal Register.
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News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - A federal investigation into the pay practices of a New Hampshire home care service provider that found the employer denied employees overtime wages has recovered $374,640 in back wages and liquidated damages for 46 healthcare workers.
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Caregivers working for an Idaho home care organization were awarded $88,185 in back pay and liquidated damages after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.
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News Release: LYNDHURST, NJ - The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has ordered a northern New Jersey staffing agency to pay $65,000 in damages to an employee fired after they raised concerns about not getting paid for all of their hours worked.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to a new proposal put forth by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that would allow its own officials to subvert the will of American workers based on purely subjective grounds...
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News Release: Participant: Chatham Village Foods, Wareham, Massachusetts
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: Who: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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News Release: CONCORD, NH - The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire has entered a consent preliminary injunction to prevent a West Lebanon home healthcare business and its president from coercing employees to “kick back" wages recovered for them by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. The court also ordered them to stop interfering with a current investigation.
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An Atlanta-based architecture and interior design firm must restore $540,658 to its employee stock ownership plan under a federal court order.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - In the first visit to Jordan by a senior U.S. Department of Labor official in more than two decades, Deputy Undersecretary of Labor for International Affairs Thea Lee met with government officials, and labor union and business leaders for discussions on how the two nations can cooperatively help strengthen workers’ rights in the Middle East kingdom.
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News Release: DELMONT, PA - Following a three-day trial and three years of litigation, a jury in a federal court in Pennsylvania has determined a Delmont restaurant and its owner intentionally shortchanged 15 servers, dishwashers, bussers and cooks more than $214,000 in wages, confirming the findings of a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation and litigation by its Office of the Solicitor.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Citing an unprecedent rise in global energy costs, Century Aluminum Co. - the nation’s largest producer of primary aluminum - announced plans in June 2022 to curtail operations and begin the idling process at its Hawesville, Kentucky, smelter until energy prices return to more normalized levels. By August, all operations had ceased at the aluminum smelter with layoffs affecting more than 600 workers.
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News Release: Participant: Chatham Village Foods. Wareham, Massachusetts. Description: A division of the T. Marzetti Company, Chatham Village Foods has about 200 workers in Wareham who produce croutons for the bread and bakery product manufacturing industry. The production process includes ingredient mixing, proofing, ...
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The US Labor Department published a three page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: US Department of Labor, Swank Enterprises align to promote workplace
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News Release: NAMPA, ID - A federal investigation has recovered $88,185 in back wages and liquidated damages for 90 caregivers employed by an Idaho home care agency whose pay practices denied the workers their legally earned wages, including overtime.
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News Release: ATLANTA - Less than one month after the U.S. Department of Labor cited Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC with more than $1.6 million in penalties for putting its workers' safety at risk, federal inspectors have issued citations for similar violations at store locations in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, and added $2,777,640 in proposed penalties now owed by one of the nation's largest discount retailers.
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News Release: ATLANTA - Less than one month after the U.S. Department of Labor cited Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC with more than $1.6 million in penalties for putting its workers’ safety at risk, federal inspectors have issued citations for similar violations at store locations in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, and added $2,777,640 in proposed penalties now owed by one of the nation’s largest discount retailers.