AVON, OH – Despite being warned in September 2021 that the hours worked by 14- and 15-year-old employees at its Slim Chickens’ franchise in Streetsboro violated federal law, the owner continued the illegal practices for several months at a second location in Avon, the U.S. Department of Labor has found.

LANCASTER, KY – Una planta procesadora de carne de Lancaster permitió a ocho empleados menores de edad trabajar fuera de las horas permitidas por el gobierno federal y realizar trabajos peligrosos, según descubrió una investigación federal.

LANCASTER, KY – A Lancaster meat processing plant allowed eight minor-aged employees to work outside of federally allowed hours and engage in hazardous work, a federal investigation has found.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The opening of a federal investigation into the pay practices of a Haslett assisted living facility in the fall of 2021 prompted its owner to threaten employees with termination if they spoke with investigators and trick them into admitting whether or not they had cooperated with the investigation, a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit filed on Feb. 3, 2023, alleges.   

WAUSEON, OH – The operator of Wauseon restaurant forced servers – who worked an average of 60 hours a week – to cash paychecks and then pay their wages back to him in cash, allowing the workers to keep just the tips they earned plus $20 in each two-week pay period, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.

Employer:       Marble Slab Creamery of Pier Park Inc., operating as Marble Slab Creamery

Investigation site:    600 Pier Park, Suite 120, Panama City Beach, FL 32413

AUSTIN, TX – A federal investigation has found an Austin landscape supply company, where a 17-year-old employee suffered serious injuries in a forklift incident in June 2021, allowed them to work in hazardous and prohibited occupations in violation of federal child labor law.

Employer:  Southern Visions LLP, operating as Sweet Brew Tea

Investigation site:  30245 County Road 49, Loxley, AL 36551

AUSTIN, TX – Una investigación federal descubrió que una compañía de suministros de jardinería de Austin, donde un empleado de 17 años sufrió lesiones graves en un incidente de montacargas en junio de 2021, le permitió trabajar en ocupaciones peligrosas y prohibidas en violación de la ley federal de trabajo de menores de edad.

RALEIGH, NC – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $38,891 in back wages for 55 adult employees with developmental disabilities after finding their Goldsboro non-profit employer had not renewed their federal certification to pay them subminimum wages but continued to do so.

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

                                                                            La Dolce Vita LLC, operating as LDV Beach  

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.