News from January 2022
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: COLUMBIA, SC - The operator of five Charleston-area Marco’s Pizza locations paid $101,027 in civil penalties after federal investigators found the employer endangered minor-aged workers by allowing them to perform prohibited or hazardous duties and employed a 17-year-old worker illegally as a delivery driver.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today released a Supplemental Statement clarifying a June 2020 Information Letter on private equity investments as a component of a professionally managed asset allocation fund offered as an investment option in participant-directed retirement savings plans, ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration today released Field Assistance Bulletin 2021-03 announcing a temporary enforcement policy regarding the new fee transparency disclosure requirements added to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act for persons providing brokerage services and consulting to ERISA group health plans.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Biden-Harris administration today released its semi-annual agenda of regulations required by Executive Order 12866. The agenda provides a listing of all regulations and ensures public engagement in the process of establishing regulations under active consideration by the Department of Labor during the coming one-year period.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: AUSTIN, TX - A federal investigation and consent judgment has recovered $170,000 in back wages and liquidated damages from the operator of two Austin-area restaurants who denied overtime to 17 kitchen workers who labored 60 hours a week. The probe found the restaurants’ operator later submitted falsified documents to investigators to make it appear they had paid overtime pay to resolve Fair Labor Standards Act violations found by the U.S. Department of Labor.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, FL – A Florida-based roofing contractor – with a long history of exposing his workers to the serious and potentially fatal risks related to falls – faces possible incarceration for his failure to comply with court orders once again.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: SUGAR HILL, GA - A Sugar Hill landscape company violated requirements of the federal H-2A temporary agricultural worker programs related to hours, wages, transportation costs and work assignments, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor determined.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: DALLAS - An information technology services company in Irving hired a system analyst under the H-1B visa program, then failed to use and pay the worker the required prevailing wage for non-productive time - an illegal practice known as “benching" - a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced its request that the public provide recommendations on how to permanently protect against the prior administration’s practice of intentionally separating families at the border to deter others from migrating to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The former owner of a Providence-based business that affixed price tags to jewelry for other companies was sentenced today to two years federal probation and ordered to pay the Internal Revenue Service more than $550,000 in back taxes and interest for failing to report more than $1.2 million in business revenue, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By Press release submission | Jan 12, 2022
Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) made it into the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) list of Top 10 List of most unusual items found nationwide at security checkpoints in 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: OREM, UT - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $32,356 in overtime back wages for eight workers, and identified child labor violations after its investigation of an Orem employer whose business operates as a bakery, restaurant and grocery store.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: EASTAMPTON, NJ – While falls continue to be the leading cause of death and serious injury in the construction industry, federal workplace safety inspectors too often find employers willing to ignore required safety protections and put the safety of their workers at risk.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -Billy George West, 78, of Carlsbad, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court on Jan. 10 to enticement of a minor. West will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.
