News from February 2023
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
As Valentine’s Day approaches, the FBI is reminding the public to be cautious of potential romance scams, with con artists present on most dating and social media sites.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
The former assistant city clerk of Flordell Hills, Missouri on Monday admitted stealing $159,903 from the small, struggling city.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
A Garden City, Michigan man was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in federal prison for attempted sexual exploitation of children based on his request to an undercover federal agent to create child pornography, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
U.S. Department of Labor investigators found the Jacksonville indoor adventure park allowed 55 minor-aged employees, 14 and 15 years old, to work after 7 p.m. on a school night, a violation of the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
One of the nation’s largest food safety sanitation services providers has paid $1.5 million in civil money penalties after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the company employed at least 102 children – from 13 to 17 years of age – in hazardous occupations and had them working overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
The department’s Wage and Hour Division found the employer failed to pay the proper half-time rates to non-exempt employees who worked more than 40 hours in a workweek
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
As the nation today recognizes the selfless and dedicated work of professional caregivers on National Caregivers Day, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that a federal court has entered a default judgment against an Aliquippa home health provider and its owner, after an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the employer denied 23 home health aides overtime wages.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found that the employer – which provides clean-up or dirt delivery to residential or construction sites in Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties – failed to pay the correct overtime to employees after misapplying a motor carrier exemption.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
An administrative law judge has entered a consent order following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that determined a wholesale plant nursery in Miami gave foreign visa workers preferential treatment over U.S. workers, and housed workers in unsafe and unhealthy conditions in Greensboro, Georgi
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
Despite being warned in September 2021 that the hours worked by 14- and 15-year-old employees at its Slim Chickens’ franchise in Streetsboro violated federal law, the owner continued the illegal practices for several months at a second location in Avon, the U.S. Department of Labor has found.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found Gentle Shepherd Care – which provides home healthcare services in the Charlotte area – failed to combine hours when employees worked at multiple locations during the same workweek
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
A Lancaster meat processing plant allowed eight minor-aged employees to work outside of federally allowed hours and engage in hazardous work, a federal investigation has found.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
The operator of Wauseon restaurant forced servers – who worked an average of 60 hours a week – to cash paychecks and then pay their wages back to him in cash, allowing the workers to keep just the tips they earned plus $20 in each two-week pay period, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
The opening of a federal investigation into the pay practices of a Haslett assisted living facility in the fall of 2021 prompted its owner to threaten employees with termination if they spoke with investigators and trick them into admitting whether or not they had cooperated with the investigation, a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit filed on Feb. 3, 2023, alleges.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found the operator of the Panama City Beach ice cream shop kept all credit card and cash tips the customers left for workers, a wage violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
A federal investigation has found an Austin landscape supply company, where a 17-year-old employee suffered serious injuries in a forklift incident in June 2021, allowed them to work in hazardous and prohibited occupations in violation of federal child labor law.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $38,891 in back wages for 55 adult employees with developmental disabilities after finding their Goldsboro non-profit employer had not renewed their federal certification to pay them subminimum wages but continued to do so.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
nvestigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the employer paid overtime after 80 hours in a pay period and not after 40 in a workweek as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that its Employee Benefits Security Administration will reopen the public comment period on amendments to its Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program and the proposed amendment to the associated class Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2002-51.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced today that it has approved the supplemented application submitted to the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program by the Freight Drivers and Helpers Local Union No. 557 Pension Plan (Freight Drivers Local 557 Plan).
