August 12, 2024

Department of Labor obtains judgment ordering food vendor to pay $15K in back wages, damages to workers denied overtime, allegedly threatened

Date of action:           June 28, 2024

Type of action:          Consent judgment

Employer name:       Ikaros Gourmet Co., operating as Simon’s Food Concessions

August 9, 2024

Labor Department recovers nearly $24K in back overtime, minimum wage for 2 front desk workers of Jackson, Michigan hotel operators

Employers:    Dada Guru Hospitality Inc. operating as Quality Inn, Jackson, Michigan

                             Prakash Patel

August 8, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $45K in back wages, damages for 11 servers at southern Michigan restaurant, bar

Employers:                Old Woodward Ventures LLC, operating as Luxe Bar & Grill

                                         Kara Bongiovanni

August 6, 2024

Philadelphia agency to pay $229K in overtime back wages, liquidated damages to 66 home care aides after federal investigations, litigation

PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal consent judgment requiring a Philadelphia-based home care services provider to pay 66 home health aides $129,697 in back wages and damages after investigations and litigation confirmed the employer willfully denied them overtime pay. 

August 6, 2024

Department of Labor offers online seminar on prevailing wages for employers, workers on federally funded projects Aug. 29

WASHINGTON – The Department of Labor today announced its Wage and Hour Division will offer contracting agencies, contractors, unions, workers and other stakeholders an opportunity to attend an online seminar on Aug. 29 on requirements for paying prevailing wages on federally funded construction and service contracts.

August 5, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $82K in back wages, liquidated damages for employees of Manhattan real estate developer, managers that again withheld overtime

Date of action:                       May 24, 2024

Type of action:                      Consent judgment 

August 5, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $135K in back wages, damages for 77 employees denied overtime by Ware Landscaping

Employers:    Ware Landscaping, Naperville, Illinois

                             Michael Ware, owner

Action:           U.S. Department of Labor complaint and consent judgment filing

August 2, 2024

Department of Labor recovers $57K in back wages for inspectors denied overtime by West Virginia’s state mine health, safety, training agency

Employer:      

West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training, 7 Players Club Drive, Suite 2, Charleston, WV  25311

August 1, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $268K in back wages, damages for 76 workers employed by onion processing plant

PAYETTE, ID – The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $268,417 in back wages and liquidated damages for 76 workers after finding the employer housed them in substandard conditions and wrongly exempted many of them from overtime in violation of federal regulations. 

August 1, 2024

El Departamento de Trabajo de los EE. UU. consigue una orden judicial contra empresas constructoras del norte de Nueva Jersey y sus dueños a pagar $600,000 en salarios y daños y perjuicios a 131 trabajadores

NEWARK, NJ. - El Departamento de Trabajo de los EE. UU. ha conseguido una orden judicial federal que obliga a dos empresas de construcción de Nueva Jersey y a sus dueños y gerentes a pagar $600,000 en sueldos atrasados y daños y perjuicios a 131 exempleados, después de que, en una investigación federal, se descubriera que los empleadores participaban en un plan de bonus ilegal en el pago de horas extras.

August 1, 2024

Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. recupera $268K en salarios atrasados, compensación para 76 trabajadores de planta procesadora de cebollas

PAYETTE, ID – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. recuperó $268,417 en salarios atrasados ​​y compensación por daños para 76 trabajadores tras descubrir que su empleador los alojaba en condiciones deficientes y eximía a muchos del pago de horas extras, en violación de regulaciones federales.

August 1, 2024

US Department of Labor obtains judgment ordering North Jersey construction companies, owners to pay $600K in wages, damages to 131 workers

NEWARK, NJ – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal court order that requires two New Jersey construction companies and their owners and managers to pay $600,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 131 former employees after a federal investigation found the employers engaged in an illegal bonus pay scheme.

July 31, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $150K in back wages, damages for 37 misclassified Amarillo maintenance, parts runners denied overtime pay

Employer:      Pace Enterprise LLC, operating as Pace Realty Group 

                             4005 SW 50th Ave. 

                             Amarillo, TX 79109 

July 30, 2024

Federal court awards $35.8M in back wages, damages in historic recovery after investigation finds wage theft by Pennsylvania healthcare employers

PITTSBURGH – In one of the nation’s largest wage recovery judgments, a Pennsylvania federal court has awarded $35.8 million in overtime back wages and liquidated damages to 6,000 current and former workers employed by the operators of 15 residential skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living facilities in western Pennsylvania that willfully denied them overtime pay.

July 29, 2024

Departamento de Trabajo recupera $129K en propinas, compensación para empleados de pizzería de Vancouver a los que se les negó pagas completas

Empleador:    Investier LLC, operando como Round Table Pizza

                             5016 NE Thurston Way

                             Vancouver, WA 98684

July 29, 2024

Departamento de Trabajo recupera $475K para 32 empleados a los que dueño de Juan’s Flaming Fajitas & Cantina en Las Vegas no pagó sobretiempo

LAS VEGAS – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. ha recuperado $475,385 en salarios no pagados y compensación por daños del dueño de tres restaurantes Juan’s Flaming Fajitas & Cantina en Las Vegas y Henderson que no combinó las horas trabajadas por 32 empleados en más de una ubicación y negó inapropiadamente los salarios por sobretiempo ganados por los trabajadores.

July 29, 2024

US Department of Labor files suit to force Houston-area owner, operator of homes for people with special needs to pay overtime wages, damages

HOUSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a federal court in Houston to stop the owner and operator of 17 single-family residential group homes and a day habilitation center for adults with disabilities from violating several federal employment regulations and to pay dozens of current and former employees back wages they’re owed as well as damages.

July 29, 2024

Department of Labor recovers $129K in tips, damages for employees deprived full earnings by Vancouver pizza franchise operator

Employer:      Investier LLC, operating as Round Table Pizza

                            5016 NE Thurston Way

                            Vancouver, WA 98684