News from February 2023
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
– Following a nine-day trial, Ahamefule Aso Odus has been convicted by a federal jury on 12 counts of money laundering stemming from his role in a massive money laundering operation. Odus fled after testifying during his trial and is currently a fugitive.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
Onekey, LLC, and Finbar O’Neill Convicted on Charges of Willfully Violating OSHA Regulations Resulting in Death of Construction Worker
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
Melanie Calhoun began as a chemical engineer at the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration and today leads MSHA’s Directorate of Technical Support.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the employer failed to pay one housekeeper for any hours worked, a minimum wage violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered a total of $41,221 for 22 workers employed by a West Hartford moving and storage company and its subsidiary that provided bulk mail delivery service under a contract with the U.S. Postal Service.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
Campaign includes digital billboards in 7 storm-affected areas of Puerto Rico
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the employer misapplied the seasonal amusement or recreational establishments’ exemption for its workers
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found two operators of Tampa-area Tropical Smoothie Café franchise locations failed to pay workers their full wages, allowed minor-aged employees to work more hours than the law allows when school is in session, and permitted some minors to illegally load a trash compactor.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
After the U.S. Department of Labor found a Stellantis’ auto plant in Sterling Heights violated the rights of nursing mothers employed there, the global manufacturer of Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep vehicles, will create additional lactation rooms and correct its break policy to avoid future violations.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
A federal investigation has found the operator of three Detroit-area residential nursing centers’ pay practices denied 45 managers their full and proper wages by regularly alternating the managers' status from hourly to salary in an attempt to evade overtime obligations.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
A Honolulu preschool has learned an expensive lesson about willfully failing to pay required overtime wages as the law requires, after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
A federal investigation recovered $36,106 in back wages and liquidated damages from a Cape Elizabeth, Maine, café, bakery and market for 86 employees after finding the employer denied some workers their full wages and allowed minor-aged workers to perform hazardous jobs and work more hours than allowed by law.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $188,000 for 125 employees at two Louisville coffee shops that illegally allowed managers to keep a portion of the tips earned by workers.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
Before February 1993, many workers faced with circumstances that demanded time away from work also worried about keeping their jobs and health insurance
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
U.S. Department of Labor investigators found Nick & Ken & Stelios LLC – operators of The Big Clock of Powdersville restaurant in Greenville – kept a portion of its servers’ tips and used that money to offset wages paid to other restaurant staff, a minimum wage violation and one of several violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
To help meet the need for auto technicians in the growing electric vehicle industry, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced a national partnership with Mercedes-Benz USA to train Job Corps students initially at centers in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Utah for automotive industry careers.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
To help identify and address barriers workers face regarding access to state unemployment insurance benefits, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of nearly $16 million in equity grants to Connecticut, New Jersey and Oklahoma.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic, joint-venture partnership with an East Point, Georgia, construction company to promote worker safety and health during widening construction project of Concourse D at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the nation's busiest.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health on March 1, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
OSHA's Dallas and Fort Worth area offices and the Better Business Bureau have signed an alliance to educate employers and employees on workplace hazards.
