Employer:                                Ashmi Hotel Corp., operating as Quality Inn

Investigation site:                  2741 York Road, Pleasant View, TN 37146

HARTFORD, CT – 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.

TAMPA, FL – 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.

Who:              U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division Caribbean District Office.

STERLING HEIGHTS, MI – 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.

Quien:            Oficina de Distrito del Caribe de la División de Horas y Salarios del Departamento del Trabajo

                        de los Estados Unidos.

Que:                La Oficina del Distrito del Caribe está lanzando una campaña de vallas publicitarias digitales   

Employer:                                                     La Dolce Vita LLC

Subsidiary investigation sites:         LDV Golf Cart and Bike Rentals LLC

DETROIT – 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.

HONOLULU – 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.

WASHINGTON – Before February 1993, many workers faced with circumstances that demanded time away from work also worried about keeping their jobs and health insurance. That changed with the bipartisan passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act.  

LOUISVILLE, KY – 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.

Employer:      Nick & Ken & Stelios LLC, operating as The Big Clock of Powdersville

                             3540 SC-Highway 153

                             Greenville, SC 29611

MANCHESTER, NH – 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.

WIXOM, MI – The operator of a Culver’s franchise restaurant location in Wixom has paid $13,212 in civil money penalties after federal investigators determined the employer allowed 18 teens – ages 14 and 15 – to work more than federal child labor laws permit.

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY – The operator of two Long Island restaurants may have thought they only had to take orders from customers, but now has learned that ignoring the orders of federal investigators and a federal court will get you arrested.

RALEIGH, NC - El Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. ha recuperado $287,923 en salarios atrasados y daños y perjuicios para 152 trabajadores después de que su investigación descubriera que un mayorista de novedades y regalos de Asheville no respetó la ley federal al negar a algunos de los trabajadores el pago completo de horas extras que habían ganado.

TAMPA, FL – Un contratista laboral de Florida enfrenta casi 10 años de prisión después de una investigación del Departamento de Trabajo de Estados Unidos y una investigación de varias agencias sobre su participación en una conspiración para someter a trabajadores agrícolas migrantes a trabajos forzados, obstruir a los investigadores, e intimidar a testigos y trabajadores domésticos en condiciones de vida inseguras e insalubres.  

TAMPA, FL – A Florida labor contractor is headed to prison for nearly 10 years after a U.S. Department of Labor and multi-agency investigation into his part in a conspiracy to subject migrant farmworkers to forced labor, obstruct investigators, intimidate witnesses and house workers in unsafe and unhealthy living conditions.   

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor is launching an effort to alert families throughout the nation of changes in federal law that now extend the rights to pump breastmilk at work to more women, including those employed as teachers, farmworkers and care workers.

WASHINGTON – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. ha iniciado una campaña para alertar a las familias de todo el país sobre los cambios en la ley federal que extienden a más mujeres sus derechos para extraer leche materna en el trabajo, incluidas las empleadas como maestras, trabajadoras agrícolas y cuidadoras.