Employer name: PTS of America LLC doing business as Prisoner Transportation Services of America, Nashville, Tennessee

Investigation sites: PTS corporate headquarters, Nashville, Tennessee; Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Mesa, Arizona; Alexandria International Airport, Alexandria, Louisiana; and San Antonio International Airport, San Antonio, Texas.

Employer: Tienda y Carniceria La Tapatia Inc., doing business as Supermercado Tapatia

Sites: 18330 SE Stark St., Portland, Oregon

Investigation findings: The employer incorrectly categorized a number of employees as exempt from overtime and failed to pay these employees additional half time for hours worked beyond 40 in a work week. Instead, La Tapatia paid a flat salary for all their hours regardless of how many hours they worked, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Employer name: Marrocco Group, four restaurants, two bar/lounges and a boutique hotel owned by Gianfranco Marrocco.

Employer name: SSF Inc., doing business as Gourmet Garden

Investigation site: 2255 W. Stadium Blvd. Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103

Investigation findings: The Wage and Hour Division of the U. S. Department of Labor conducted an investigation and found the employer in violation of the minimum wage, overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Employer name: T Bond LLC

Investigation site: 2920 Sparta-New Liberty Road, Sparta, Kentucky

Date of Action: May 1, 2015

Type of Action: Fair Labor Standards Act Lawsuit

Name of Defendant: Five M's LLC, d/b/a Premier Auto, Premier Auto Sales and Valparaiso Transmission also known as Valparaiso Car Care and Transmission, R-Way Inc., d/b/a L & W Auto Salvage, and John Morgavan

Employer name: Shivam Hospitality LLC, formerly doing business as Super 8 motel, and as of early 2015 doing business as the Florence Aston Hotel.

Investigation site: 7928 Dream Street, Florence, Kentucky 41042

Participants: U.S. Department of Labor, Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training

Participants: U.S. Department of Labor, Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training

NEW YORK — A Poughkeepsie-based maker and distributor of baby apparel and accessories denied 49 workers overtime pay and then attempted to thwart federal investigators by hiding workers and threatening them if they spoke to U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division agents.

WASHINGTON — A nearly five-year federal investigation of illegal business practices by 16 defendants in Utah and Arizona has yielded $700,000 in back wages, damages, penalties and other guarantees for more than 1,000 construction industry workers in the Southwest, the U.S. Department of Labor announced today.

WASHINGTON — A nearly five-year federal investigation of illegal business practices by 16 defendants in Utah and Arizona has yielded $700,000 in back wages, damages, penalties and other guarantees for more than 1,000 construction industry workers in the Southwest, the U.S. Department of Labor announced today.

NEW YORK — The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a settlement by consent judgment that provides for the recovery of $1.42 million in back wages and liquidated damages for more than 300 current and former employees of four Long Island City plumbing and heating contractors. The related businesses are Danica Group LLC; Copper Plumbing & Heating LLC; Copper II Plumbing & Heating LLC; Copper III Plumbing & Heating LLC, and the owners are Thomas Andreadakis, Leonidas Andreadakis and Helen Andreadakis.

Date of Action: February 26, 2015

Type of Action: Fair Labor Standards Act Lawsuit

Names of Defendants: Alliance Property Services Inc., Alliance Property Services PA Inc., Secure Assets First Inc., Imperial Property Services Inc. and Michael McCaffrey, individually and as owner.

These are centrally owned and commonly managed businesses, based in Syracuse, New York, engaged in property preservation and inspection services for foreclosed properties in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Employers: Seashore Saipan, a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands company that provides diving tours and dive instruction activities.

Sites: Garapan, Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Employers: Jan Charles Gray, individually and Mount Rushmore Broadcasting, Inc., All American Inn - Glenrock, and American President Resorts.

Sites: Mount Rushmore Broadcasting, Inc., in Casper, Wyoming; All American Inn - Glenrock in Glenrock, Wyoming; and American President Resorts in Custer, South Dakota.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The owner of two East Rutherford, New Jersey, companies will pay $322,094 in back wages and penalties after U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found the companies willfully violated a provision of the H-1B visa program, which allows guest workers to be temporarily employed in the United States.

Location: Oklahoma

Type of Action: Launch of a multi-year agriculture education and enforcement initiative.

HOUSTON — Imagine living on less than $300 a week in an area where a month's rent averages $1,000 or more. That's a reality for many workers in specialty grocery stores in Houston, reports the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division. The finding results from a multiyear enforcement initiative by the division that found widespread minimum wage and overtime violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Employer: Saipan Hotel Corporation, doing business as Hafadai Beach Hotel

Site: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands