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News Release: PALISADES PARK, NJ - An administrative law judge with the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission affirmed willful, repeat and serious citations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to Framing Specialist Inc., a Palisades Park construction contractor, who exposed workers to fall and safety hazards at two Bergen County work sites.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a grant program to strengthen, modernize, expand and diversify its Registered Apprenticeship Program to enable more workers to earn while they learn and find reliable pathways to the middle class.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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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: MEMPHIS, TN - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a partnership between the Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks Job Corps Center and the Tennessee Valley Authority to provide technical expertise and training to students and establish a pipeline of trained and skilled workers for the electric utility corporation’s service area.
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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 US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: JACKSONVILLE, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor has found $118,042 in back wages and liquidated damages due to 10 employees of a Jacksonville restaurant operator who forced servers to work for tips alone, denied overtime wages to others and failed to keep accurate records of the hours employees worked.
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Alcir DeSouza pled guilty to a $50,000 penalty for deceiving federal workplace safety investigators.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has fined a Missouri company $127,539 for exposing workers at a facility in New Jersey to methylene chloride.
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A Texas lumber company faces almost $400,000 in penalties after the death of an 86-year-old worker in a fall from wood pallets last summer.
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News Release: ATLANTA - A series of federal workplace safety and health inspections at four Dollar General stores in Alabama and Georgia in the summer of 2021 found the nationwide discount retailer's long history of exposing employees to dangerous working conditions continues.
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Earlier this month, over 5,000 workers participated in a historic union election at the General Motors facility in Silao, Mexico.
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The U.S. Department of Labor recently uncovered several systemic wage violations in three states.
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The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $159,256 in unpaid wages after an investigation uncovered that a potato farm in Idaho shortchanged its workers.
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News Release: FORT WAYBE, IN - El operador de siete restaurantes del área de Fort Wayne estafó a 17 de sus gerentes cuando se determinó que el salario que les pagaba era insuficiente para eximir al empleador de su obligación de pagar horas extras. Esto implicó una violación de los requisitos de pago de horas extras cuando los empleados trabajaban más de 40 horas en una semana laboral, según descubrió una investigación del Departamento Laboral de EE. UU.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $63,000 in back wages after an investigation found that the operator of seven restaurants in Indiana wrongly denied overtime to 17 of its managers.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: FORT WAYNE, IN - The operator of seven Fort Wayne area restaurants shortchanged 17 of its managers when the salary it paid was determined to be insufficient to relieve the employer of its overtime obligations. This led to a violation of overtime pay requirements when employees worked more than 40 hours in a workweek, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.