News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice obtained more than $4.7 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in fiscal year 2016 ending Sept. 30, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has entered into a comprehensive agreement with the St. Louis County Family Court to resolve the department’s findings of serious and systemic violations of juvenile due process and equal protection rights. The agreement aims to ensure that the family court ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in November indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace since mid-year. Job gains have been solid in recent months and the unemployment rate has declined. ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: The attached table and charts released on Wednesday summarize the economic projections and the target federal funds rate projections made by Federal Open Market Committee participants for the December 13-14 meeting.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: TROY, Mich. – A Michigan-based auto components manufacturer and supplier will pay 526 workers $75,064 – representing $37,532 in unpaid overtime wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages – after federal investigators determined the company calculated their overtime pay incorrectly.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. – An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has recovered $123,574 in back wages and damages for 22 underpaid workers at four Mozzarella’s and Fitzy’s Pub Family restaurants in southern New England. The employers also paid $4,114 in civil monetary penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: ANDOVER, Mass. – An employee of Ned Stevens Gutter Cleaning and General Contracting of Massachusetts Inc. was injured when he fell 9 feet from a garage roof in Lexington on Oct. 24, 2016. It was the second such incident in Massachusetts in less than a year for the New Jersey-based company that specializes in cleaning gutters and roofs. On Nov. 29, 2015, another employee fell 26 feet from a roof in Newton.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: CUSSETA, Ala. – When she wasn’t employed as a temporary worker at a Cusseta manufacturer that stamps metal parts for Hyundai and Kia vehicles, Regina Allen Elsea was making final plans for her wedding and looking forward to a new life with her future husband.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found a Dudley contract packager failed to inform the agency as required that a temporary worker needed hospitalization after he sustained a serious injury on May 26, 2016. Even worse, the employer failed to contact emergency medical services immediately when the injury occurred.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Dec 14, 2016
The US State Department published a two page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
The US Interior Department published a four page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
