SAN DIEGO – A federal investigation has recovered more than $169,000 in back wages and liquidated damages for 235 workers employed by a San Diego drywall contractor who illegally denied piece-rate and hourly workers overtime pay.

QUAKERTOWN, PA - Un tribunal de Pensilvania ha declarado que el administrador general de Quakertown Hampton Inn incurrió en desacato por violar una sentencia acordada en febrero de 2023. La sentencia por desacato requiere que la empresa pague $8,750 en concepto de salarios atrasados, y un monto igual en concepto de daños y perjuicios y $500 en intereses para el personal afectado del hotel, así como $2,000 para reembolsar las costas de investigación y abogados.

NEW YORK – KDE Equine LLC — doing business as Steve Asmussen Stables — has entered into a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor to reimburse its grooms and hot walkers $129,776 to resolve violations of the federal H-2B worker program which permits businesses to employ temporary visa workers.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that it will offer online compliance seminars in September for contracting agencies, contractors, unions, workers and other stakeholders to provide information on recent updates to regulations governing employment practices for federally funded contracts.

Employer:      Ostrom Mushroom Farms LLC

                        1111 Midvale Road

QUAKERTOWN, PA – A federal court in Pennsylvania has found the general manager of a Quakertown Hampton Inn in civil contempt for violating a February 2023 consent judgment. The contempt order requires the employer to pay $8,750 in back wages, an equal amount in liquidated damages and $500 in interest to affected hotel workers, as well as $2,000 to reimburse the department’s investigative and attorney’s fees.

DURHAM, NC – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $1.6 million in back wages and liquidated damages for 188 workers, many of them denied minimum and overtime wages by a North Carolina construction services contractor who misclassified the employees as independent contractors.

Nombre de la empresa:       Mt. Clifton Fruit Company LLC

Lugar de investigación:       17581 Mechanicsville Road, Timberville, VA 22853

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the issuance of the final rule “Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulation” to update regulations that implement the Davis-Bacon Act and Davis-Bacon and Related Acts to reflect better the needs of construction workers on federal construction investments.

Employer name:                   Hotel De Panache LLC, operating as Home 2 Suites                                       

Investigation site:                  6650 Eastbank Drive

EL PASO, TX – An El Paso home healthcare and hospice service provider expected employees to work long days to care for people in need but failed to pay 133 of its employees the overtime wages they earned, the U.S. Department of Labor has found.

The investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division led to the recovery of $501,211 in overtime and liquidated damages from San Lorenzo Adult Provider and Pediatrics for the affected workers.

LEXINGTON, SC – A federal court has sentenced a South Carolina labor contractor — Balcazar Nature Harvesting LLC and its operators — after a U.S. Department of Labor and multi-agency investigation found the employers subjected migrant farmworkers to exploitative labor, confiscated passports and housed workers in unsafe and unhealthy conditions.

Employer:    Alley Enterprises LLC, operating as Central Restaurant, 129 Coosa St., Montgomery, AL 36104

SPOKANE, WA– An extensive U.S. Department of Labor investigation into the pay and employment practices at 23 stores operated by a Spokane-based supermarket chain has recovered more than $350,000 in back wages and damages for 602 employees and assessed penalties of $72,862 for the employer’s willful violations.

FORT WAYNE, IN – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment in federal court as part of its recovery of $188,915 in  overtime back wages and liquidated damages for 83 employees denied overtime pay by a Fort Wayne home care provider.

EL PASO, TX - Un proveedor de servicio de atención medica en el hogar y hospicio en El Paso esperaba que el personal trabajara horas extra para cuidar a personas que lo necesitaban, pero no les pagaba a 133 personas empleadas los salarios por horas extras que habían ganado, según descubrió el Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU.

LEXINGTON, SC - Un tribunal federal ha condenado a un contratista de trabajo de Carolina del Sur (Balcazar Nature Harvesting LLC y sus operadores) después de que una investigación de varios agencias, incluyendo el Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU., descubriera que los empleadores sometieron a trabajadores agrícolas migrantes a trabajo explotador, confiscaron pasaportes y alojaron a los trabajadores en condiciones inseguras e insalubres.

Employer name:       Mt. Clifton Fruit Company LLC

Investigation site:     17581 Mechanicsville Road, Timberville, VA 22853

YUMA, AZ – A federal investigation into the pay practices of a Yuma sports bar and grill has recovered $114,996 in back wages and damages for 86 workers employed by three owners who learned that denying employees overtime wages — deliberately and knowingly — is a bad and costly wager.

WASHINGTON – As people around the globe recognize World Breastfeeding Week and the U.S. honors National Breastfeeding Month, the U.S. Department of Labor today launched “Power to Pump,” a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of protections for millions of additional nursing workers to express milk.