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News Release: JACKSONVILLE, FL - The miscalculation of overtime wages and child labor violations have taken a slice of the profits from the operator of three Jacksonville pizzerias, following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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News Release: BELLEVUE, NE - A company known for baking some of the nation’s leading brands will pay $131,216 in back pay and interest to 134 qualified female applicants as part of an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to resolve alleged hiring discrimination at a Bellevue, Nebraska baking facility.
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News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Department of Labor and other stakeholders are offering workers, employers, educators, safety and health professionals and others a unique, virtual opportunity to increase their knowledge of workplace safety and health issues during Pacific Coast Safety Fest, March 14-17, 2022.
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News Release: LAUREL RUN, PA - An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor recovered $221,307 in back wages and damages for 32 nursing staff employees of a Luzerne County treatment center found to be intentionally shortchanging workers of their overtime pay repeatedly.
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A governmental agency is encouraging health care employers and related industries to help make 2022 safer for workers, considering a report that nursing assistants had the highest number of missed workdays due to workplace injuries and illnesses.
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The U.S. Department of Labor recently recovered wages from a Florida restaurant after it failed to pay employees overtime wages they earned.
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Back wages of $120,321 for 36 workers were recovered from a West Columbia home healthcare provider that the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found denied overtime pay to its employees.
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A large farm in Texas that is one of the nation's largest potato producers recently had to pay $1.3 million in wages it had denied its farm workers, according to a U.S. Department of Labor news release.
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News Release: HARTVILLE, OH - A Hartsville contractor has been cited for the sixth time since 2018 for exposing workers to deadly fall hazards on two separate Ohio job sites.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The U.S. Department of Labor's recently announced recovery of $125,000 in back wages for an Iowa-based subcontractor's 34 workers is part of keeping wages steady, a wage and hour division director said in news release.
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A Norfolk-based medical staffing agency, Steadfast Medical Staffing, was ordered by a federal court to pay over $7.2 million in back wages and damages.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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A Hawaiian seafood trader was ordered to pay $117,718 in back wages and damages by the U.S. Department of Labor on Monday after denying workers overtime compensation.
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Managers at a New Hampshire burrito restaurant who kept employee tips shouldn't have, a U.S. Department of Labor division director said in a news release.
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News Release: Dear Mr. Ford: Last week, Abbott made public that contaminated powder infant formulas manufactured at its Sturgis, Michigan plant have led to multiple infant hospitalizations and one death. While the voluntary recall of three types of formula-Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare-is a critical step to ensuring...
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor invites interested parties to submit nominations for individuals to serve on the federal Workforce Information Advisory Council and announces the procedures for those nominations.
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News Release: Date of action: Feb. 22, 2022
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As the COVID-19 pandemic raged, two health care facilities in Michigan - one of the hardest hit in the nation by coronavirus - withheld hundreds of thousands of dollars in wages from its workers, the Department of Labor said in February.