October 31, 2024

US Department of Labor finds Temple City home care company ignoring overtime requirements for 3rd time, recovers $145K in unpaid wages, damages

Employer:      T.G.H. Management Group Inc., operating as Temple Garden Homes

                        5120 Baldwin Ave.

October 31, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $109K in back wages, benefits from Maryland contractor that underpaid 55 workers at Eglin AFB

Employer:   Crystal Enterprises Inc.

Employer address:    10837 Lanham Severn Road, Glenn Dale, MD 20769

October 30, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $53K in back wages, damages from cleaning service that misclassified 59 workers as independent contractors

Employer:                              Finichel LLC, operating as Finichel Cleaning Services 

Investigation site:                  801 Mohawk Drive

West Columbia, SC 29169

October 28, 2024

Department of Labor seeks Kentucky highway construction industry’s input to set accurate prevailing wage, fringe benefits for workers

LOUISVILLE, KY – The U.S. Department of Labor encourages employers and others in Kentucky’s highway construction industry to complete a statewide prevailing wage rates survey to help its Wage and Hour Division establish accurate pay and fringe benefits for workers on federally funded and assisted construction projects.

October 24, 2024

US Department of Labor announces collaboration with New York to promote labor law compliance, child labor enforcement

Date of action:           Oct. 3, 2024 

Participants:              U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division 

                        New York State Department of Labor, Division of Labor Standards

October 22, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers more than $1B in wages, damages for 615,000 workers under Biden-Harris administration

WASHINGTON –The Biden-Harris administration today announced that the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division recovered more than $1 billion in back wages and damages for our nation’s workers since the start of the Biden-Harris administration. The recoveries derive from investigations concluded by the division from Jan. 20, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2024.

October 22, 2024

Department of Labor obtains judgment to recover $120K in wages, damages from Huddle House franchisee who withheld wages, made illegal deductions

OKLAHOMA CITY  The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and injunction to recover $120,000 in back wages and liquidated damages for 177 Oklahoma restaurant workers whose employer deducted time for lunch breaks not taken and failed to pay employees for all hours worked.

October 22, 2024

El Departamento de Trabajo obtiene orden judicial para recuperar $120K en sueldos, daños de un franquiciado de Huddle House que retuvo sueldos e hizo deducciones ilegales

OKLAHOMA CITY – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. obtuvo un fallo por consentimiento y un interdicto para recuperar $120,000 en sueldos atrasados y daños y perjuicios para 177 trabajadores de restaurantes de Oklahoma cuyo empleador dedujo el tiempo de descanso para almorzar que no se utilizó y no les pagó por todas las horas trabajadas.

October 21, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $105K in back wages, damages for 28 Grand Rapids restaurant workers after owner withheld tips

Employer:      The Saucy Crab Grand Rapids LLC operating as The Saucy Crab

                              Jixi Qiu, owner

                              5039 28th St. SE

October 21, 2024

Federal judge orders Florida water park to pay $151K in penalties after Department of Labor again finds child labor violations

ORLANDO, FL – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent order requiring a Jacksonville Beach water park to pay $151,606 in penalties after investigators found the company assigned young teenagers to work late hours during the school year and as attendants on elevated water slides without certification.

October 21, 2024

US Department of Labor obtains judgment to recover $442K in back wages, damages for 29 workers at 4 Milwaukee-area Chicken Palace restaurants

MILWAUKEE – A federal court has ordered the operators of four Milwaukee-area chicken franchise restaurants to pay $442,140 to 29 employees in a consent judgment and order obtained following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor. 

October 17, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $317K in unpaid wages, damages from Southern California home care provider that denied overtime

WHITTIER, CA – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $158,868 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages from a Southern California residential care provider that refused to pay overtime to 45 workers, some of whom worked up to 70 hours per week.

October 15, 2024

Department of Labor to hold online seminars for current, prospective federal contractors on prevailing wage requirements in fiscal year 2025

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that its Wage and Hour Division will offer online seminars for contractors, contracting agencies, unions, workers and other stakeholders on prevailing wage requirements in fiscal year 2025 for federally funded construction and service contracts.

October 15, 2024

Judge orders Pennsylvania contractor to pay $85K in wages, benefits, overtime owed to 6 workers on federal projects in New York, New Jersey

NEW YORK – An administrative law judge has ordered a Pennsylvania-based federal contractor to pay $85,284 in back wages for failing to pay prevailing wages, fringe benefits and overtime pay owed to workers employed on multiple federal construction projects, after an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.

October 9, 2024

US Department of Labor sues New York City coffee shops, operators for not paying overtime to employees working at multiple locations

Date of action:     September 20, 2024 

Type of action:     Complaint

Defendants:     White Noise Coffee I Corp., White Noise Coffee 2 Corp., Milk Under Café Inc., Su Hyung Kim a/k/a Vanesa Kim, and Han Flanagan. 

October 9, 2024

Federal court order requires Tennessee sawmill to pay $73K in penalties, turn over $10K in profits for endangering children at work

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CLARKRANGE, TN The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal consent decree requiring a Clarkrange lumber producer to stop violating federal child labor regulations, pay penalties for their violations and surrender profits earned for products made while violations occurred.