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News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $51,217 in restored tips and back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages from the operator of three Cumberland County, Maine, restaurants that denied 25 workers their full overtime wages or kept portions of their earned tips illegally.
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News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia framing contractor faces $269,594 in proposed penalties after the company was again found exposing employees to deadly fall hazards at a residential worksite in the city’s Roxborough section on April 21, 2022.
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News Release: NEW YORK - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has denied a Staten Island health provider’s attempt to prevent the U.S. Department of Labor from pursuing damages for a COVID-19 whistleblower whose private state whistleblower claim was dismissed.
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The owner of a California car wash who paid employees two checks per pay period to avoid paying overtime now has to pay more than $200,000 for violating federal labor laws.
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A federal court placed a Pennsylvania poultry processing facility in contempt for failing to pay $162,359 in fines from citations by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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A federal court ordered Mesa Air Group, based in Arizona and operating Mesa Airlines on regional routes for American and United Airlines, to comply with federal law and change its pay policy.
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A California grape producer violated federal law by providing H-2A agricultural employees with more hours and higher wages than those offered to American workers.
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“Text of Senate Amendment 6337“ was published in the Senate section on pages S5833-S5834 on Sept. 29
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There were five notices published by the Labor Department in week ending Oct. 22, according to the Federal Register.
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A U.S. Department of Labor investigation recovered more than $1 million in back pay and liquidated damages from the part-owner and operator of an assisted living facility in the Pittsburgh area.
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A Kauai, Hawaii, restaurant allegedly violated federal regulations by permitting eight workers as young as 15 to work in its kitchen and bake.
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The US Labor Department published a four page notice on Oct. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court has found Birdsboro Kosher Farms Corp. in contempt for failing to pay $162,359 in penalties after an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found numerous safety hazards, including willful, serious and repeat violations.
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News Release: PHOENIX - A federal court has ordered Arizona-based Mesa Air Group - operating regional flights for American and United airlines as Mesa Airlines - to follow federal law and correct the company’s pay policy that prevented flight attendants and pilots from exercising their rights to take time off from work for qualifying reasons under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court has found Birdsboro Kosher Farms Corp. in contempt for failing to pay $162,359 in penalties after an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found numerous safety hazards, including willful, serious and repeat violations.
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News Release: FOSTORIA, OH - An Ohio vinyl tile manufacturer faces $1,232,705 in proposed penalties after U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors responded when a worker suffered severe injuries as a result of being caught in a machine on April 28, 2022.
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News Release: FOSTORIA, OH - An Ohio vinyl tile manufacturer faces $1,232,705 in proposed penalties after U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors responded when a worker suffered severe injuries as a result of being caught in a machine on April 28, 2022.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), issued the following statement on her continuing bipartisan oversight efforts into the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19, and her continuing commitment to improve our pandemic preparedness and public health systems by passing her PREVENT Pandemics Act.
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News Release: PITTSBURGH - The part-owner and operator of a Pittsburgh-area assisted living provider has paid more than $1 million in back wages and liquidated damages to 47 workers after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found their pay practices denied the workers their rightfully earned wages.
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News Release: ATLANTA - A federal court judge has ordered TPP Holdings Inc., an Atlanta architecture and interior design firm operating as The Preston Partnership, LLC, and its CEO, Robert N. Preston, to restore $540,658 to TPP’s employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) following an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.