Employer:                                          Good Name 22:1 LLC

                                                            Operating as Chick-fil-A

                                                            52 Highland Square

                                                            Hendersonville, NC 28792

Empleador:                                        B&R Tires Inc.

Lugar de investigación:                15115 Whittram Ave.

                                                                   Fontana, CA 92335

Employer:                                          B&R Tires Inc.

Investigation sites:                       15115 Whittram Ave.

                                                                  Fontana, CA 92335

Employer:                                   Ice Custard Hialeah LLC – operating as Rita’s Italian Ice

Investigation sites:                3011 East Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale 33316

                                                         18451 NW 67th Ave., Hialeah 33015

                                                         313 Johnson St., Hollywood 33019

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor and the IRS today renewed a memorandum of understanding and added a streamlined process for joint referrals and closer coordination to stop businesses from misclassifying workers and denying them their full wages, benefits and protections under the law.

NEW YORK – The operator of three northern New Jersey restaurants has learned that not cooperating with a federal investigation and ignoring several federal court orders can get you arrested.

SIOUX FALLS, SD - El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. ha recuperado $279,070 en salarios atrasados y daños y perjuicios del restaurante Sioux Falls que pagó a los trabajadores de la cocina un salario mensual fijo y les negó salarios por horas extras que exceden las 40 horas en una semana laboral.

SIOUX FALLS, SD – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $279,070 in back wages and liquidated damages from a Sioux Falls buffet restaurant that paid kitchen workers a flat monthly salary and denied them overtime wages for hours over 40 in a workweek.

NEW ALBANY, OH – Federal investigators have recovered $88,822 in back wages and liquidated damages for 32 workers at a New Albany golf course and country club where the employer required tipped employees to share tips with managers and, by doing so, lost their ability to claim a tip credit under the law.

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - El Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. ha recuperado $59,049 en salarios atrasados y daños y perjuicios para 10 trabajadores cuyo empleador de un restaurante de Oklahoma ignoró las normas de horas extras y salario mínimo, retuvo ilegalmente una parte de las propias de los trabajadores y permitió que menores trabajaran más horas por semana de las permitidas y en horarios no permitidos por las leyes de trabajo infantil.

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $59,049 in back wages and liquidated damages for 10 workers whose Oklahoma restaurant employer ignored overtime and minimum wage regulations, illegally kept a portion of workers’ tips and allowed minors to work more hours per week than permitted and at times not allowed by the federal child labor laws.

Employer name:                    Universal HomeCare Service LLC                                             

Investigation site:                  213 Washington Ave.

                                                           Mansfield, LA 71052

Employer name:        Publix Super Markets Inc.

Investigation site:      3300 Publix Corp. Parkway, Lakeland, FL 33811

Employer:                                          Justar Fashion Inc.

Investigation sites:                            2660 Chico Ave.

South El Monte, CA 91733

Employer name:                    Oak Texas Bar & Grill LLC

                                                        Oak Texas Bar LLC

Investigation site:                 7001 N. 10th St., Suite C, McAllen, Texas 78504

                                                         113 S 17th St., McAllen, TX 78501

Employer:                           CHU Contracting Inc.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              14020 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300                                                                                                                                                                                                Chantilly, Virginia 20151

LOS ANGELES – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. recuperó $370,194 en salarios atrasados ​​y compensación por daños de los dueños de dos restaurantes en Los Ángeles y Pasadena que ilegalmente negaron el pago de horas extra a 54 trabajadores y trataron de ocultarlo.

PANAMA CITY BEACH, FL – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $503,053 in back wages and liquidated damages for 227 workers of a Panama City Beach hotel staffing agency that denied them full wages and benefits when the employer misclassified them as independent contractors.

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $370,194 in back wages and liquidated damages from the owners of two restaurants in Los Angeles and Pasadena who illegally denied overtime wages to 54 workers, and attempted to hide their misdeeds.

PHOENIX – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. está buscando a empleados actuales y anteriores de un contratista de construcción de Tempe, Arizona, a quienes se les debe entregar parte de los más de $2.6 millones en salarios por horas extra y compensación por daños recuperados después de que un tribunal federal aprobó un dictamen por consentimiento luego de un largo litigio e investigación por parte del departamento.