January 17, 2025

Judge finds scaffold installation company exposed employees to falls by using unsafe scaffold at high-rise Massachusetts work site

BOSTON – A federal administrative law judge has determined that Greg Beeche Logistics, a scaffold installation company based in Waterford, New York, exposed employees to potential falls by erecting and using scaffolds that failed to meet federal workplace safety standards.

January 17, 2025

US Department of Labor secures consent judgment recovering $63K in back wages, liquidated damages from Subway franchisee for workers at 6 Massachusetts locations

Date of action:                       Jan. 13, 2025

Type of action:                      Consent judgment and order 

January 16, 2025

Department of Labor obtains judgment to recover $66K in wages, damages for 13 workers denied tips, overtime wages by Oklahoma restaurant operator

OKLAHOMA CITY  The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and injunction to recover $66,000 in back wages and liquidated damages for 13 restaurant workers whose Oklahoma City employer kept employee tips and failed to pay overtime in violation of federal labor regulations.

January 16, 2025

Department of Labor obtains consent judgment to resolve West Virginia engineering consultants’ unpaid employee medical claims

Date of action:           Dec. 12, 2024

Type of action:          Consent judgment

Employers:                 MSES Consultants Inc., Lawrence Rine

January 16, 2025

US Department of Labor recovers $60K in back wages, damages for 10 Chicago sanitation workers denied overtime pay

Employer:      Green Maintenance Services Inc., Jan Jarosz

Action:            Fair Labor Standards Act consent judgment and order

Courts:           U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, Chicago

January 15, 2025

Federal court requires R.B. Pamplin Corp., owner to restore at least $20.6M in assets to pension plan, unwind $15.4M in illegal real estate investments

PORTLAND, OR  The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment requiring Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. and the R.B. Pamplin Corp. to restore at least $20,600,000 in assets to the company’s pension plan after the plan’s unlawful acquisition of company-owned real estate  jeopardized the retirement security of thousands of the company’s employees.

January 13, 2025

US Department of Labor sues Wichita adult gentlemen’s club in violation of federal laws to recover back wages, damages for 80 dancers

WICHITA, KS – The U.S. Department of Labor filed a federal lawsuit on Jan. 6, 2025, as part of its ongoing effort to recover wages and damages for 80 female entertainers of a Wichita gentlemen’s club that allegedly failed to pay full wages, illegally deducted fees from their tips and required them to reimburse the employer if litigation or an investigation ever recovered lost wages for the dancers.

December 20, 2024

Court orders 3 West Michigan taco restaurants to pay $823K in back wages, damages to 177 workers shortchanged minimum wage, overtime

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A federal court has ordered the owner of three West Michigan taco restaurants to pay 177 workers a total of $823,326 after the court granted the U.S. Department of Labor’s request for summary judgment, concluding that the restaurants operated an illegal tip pool that led to violations of federal minimum wage and overtime regulations.

December 19, 2024

US Department of Labor announces settlement with Amazon requiring corporate-wide ergonomic measures at facilities across the country

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Amazon have entered into a corporate-wide settlement to help better protect employees from hazardous working conditions leading to serious lower back and other musculoskeletal disorders at Amazon facilities. The settlement agreement resolves the department’s multiple ergonomics cases against Amazon.com Services LLC, in the first major multi-site investigation brought by OSHA in over a decade. 

December 17, 2024

El Departamento de Trabajo obtiene sentencia de consentimiento que prohíbe que un contratista de Massachusetts tome represalias contra empleados

Fecha de acción:                                22 de noviembre de 2024

December 17, 2024

Department of Labor secures consent judgment prohibiting Massachusetts contractor from retaliating against employees

Date of action:                                   Nov. 22, 2024

Type of action:                                  Consent judgment and order

December 17, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $125K in back wages, damages from operators of 3 Chicago area restaurants for 53 workers denied overtime

Employers:    D’Nuez Corp.

                            Antonio Rendon

                            Albino Rendon           

December 16, 2024

Court orders founder, operator of 6 Teriyaki Grill locations in Utah to pay $198K in wages, damages to 20 workers shortchanged overtime

SALT LAKE CITY  The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and injunction against the operator of six Teriyaki Grill locations in Utah who denied 20 employees their legally earned overtime wages.

December 6, 2024

Department of Labor seeks back wages, damages from US Postal Service for allegedly firing a worker who raised safety concerns

CHARLEROI, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit against the U.S. Postal Service and two of its managers for wrongly terminating a contracted employee who raised safety concerns about loading dock equipment at the Charleroi Post Office.

December 4, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $24K in back wages, damages from Kentucky employer that denied 22 London smoke shop workers overtime

Employer:   25 Vape & Smoke LLC

Employer address:    1745 North Laurel Road, London, KY 40741

December 3, 2024

Department of Labor obtains consent judgment ordering 2 healthcare staffing companies to pay a total of more than $2.4M in back wages, liquidated damages to 341 employees

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and order in federal court that recovers a total of more than $2.4 million in back wages and liquidated damages from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania healthcare staffing agencies that denied 341 employees overtime wages, including employees misclassified as independent contractors

December 2, 2024

Department of Labor obtains judgment to recover $72K in wages, damages for 20 workers denied full wages by Oklahoma farm, landscape stores

TULSA, OK  The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and injunction to recover $72,000 in back wages and liquidated damages for 20 workers whose Oklahoma employer misapplied the agriculture exemption to retail workers and did not pay overtime to employees who worked more than 40 hours per week regularly. 

November 29, 2024

Qvest LLC must pay $171K after federal investigators find sanitation contractor employed 11 children at Sioux City pork processing plant

SIOUX CITY, IA – The U.S. Department of Labor has found a second sanitation contractor at the Seaboard Triumph Foods LLC facility that employed children to perform dangerous work during overnight shifts at its Sioux City pork processing plant.