Employer:      Nick & Ken & Stelios LLC, operating as The Big Clock of Powdersville

                             3540 SC-Highway 153

                             Greenville, SC 29611

MANCHESTER, NH – A federal investigation recovered $36,106 in back wages and liquidated damages from a Cape Elizabeth, Maine, café, bakery and market for 86 employees after finding the employer denied some workers their full wages and allowed minor-aged workers to perform hazardous jobs and work more hours than allowed by law.

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.  

WIXOM, MI – The operator of a Culver’s franchise restaurant location in Wixom has paid $13,212 in civil money penalties after federal investigators determined the employer allowed 18 teens – ages 14 and 15 – to work more than federal child labor laws permit.

RALEIGH, NC - El Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. ha recuperado $287,923 en salarios atrasados y daños y perjuicios para 152 trabajadores después de que su investigación descubriera que un mayorista de novedades y regalos de Asheville no respetó la ley federal al negar a algunos de los trabajadores el pago completo de horas extras que habían ganado.

TAMPA, FL – Un contratista laboral de Florida enfrenta casi 10 años de prisión después de una investigación del Departamento de Trabajo de Estados Unidos y una investigación de varias agencias sobre su participación en una conspiración para someter a trabajadores agrícolas migrantes a trabajos forzados, obstruir a los investigadores, e intimidar a testigos y trabajadores domésticos en condiciones de vida inseguras e insalubres.  

TAMPA, FL – A Florida labor contractor is headed to prison for nearly 10 years after a U.S. Department of Labor and multi-agency investigation into his part in a conspiracy to subject migrant farmworkers to forced labor, obstruct investigators, intimidate witnesses and house workers in unsafe and unhealthy living conditions.   

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor is launching an effort to alert families throughout the nation of changes in federal law that now extend the rights to pump breastmilk at work to more women, including those employed as teachers, farmworkers and care workers.

WASHINGTON – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. ha iniciado una campaña para alertar a las familias de todo el país sobre los cambios en la ley federal que extienden a más mujeres sus derechos para extraer leche materna en el trabajo, incluidas las empleadas como maestras, trabajadoras agrícolas y cuidadoras.

RALEIGH, NC – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $287,923 in back wages and liquidated damages for 152 workers after its investigation found that an Asheville gift and novelty wholesaler ran afoul of federal law by denying some workers the full overtime pay they earned.

LANSDOWNE, PA – Nearly 400 home healthcare workers, employed in an industry rife with overtime violations, will receive the wages they are owed after the U.S. Department of Labor obtained a consent judgment ordering a Philadelphia-area agency and its owners to pay them more than $2.3 million. A federal investigation found the employer willfully shortchanged employees’ hard-earned overtime wages.

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY – The operator of two Long Island restaurants may have thought they only had to take orders from customers, but now has learned that ignoring the orders of federal investigators and a federal court will get you arrested.

DENVER – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $203,332 in back wages after an investigation found a Denver landscaping company owned by a father and son – Fermin and Roberto Daniel Guardado – denied overtime wages to 14 workers, and failed to keep complete records as the law requires.

The department also barred the company from hiring H-2B workers for five years for its violations of the H-2B worker program.

Employer:                                   Armando’s Mexican Restaurant LLC

Investigation site:                  5792 Memorial Blvd.
                                                         Saint George, South Carolina 29477

DENVER - El Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. ha recuperado $203,332 en salarios atrasados después de que se descubriera por una investigación que una empresa de paisajismo de Denver, propiedad de un padre e hijo (Fermin y Roberto Daniel Guardado), negó los salarios por horas extras a 14 trabajadores y no mantuvo registros completos según requiere la ley.

Empleador:                            Armando’s Mexican Restaurant LLC

Lugar de investigación:        5792 Memorial Blvd.
Saint George, South Carolina 29477

Date of Action: Jan. 18, 2023 

Type of Action: Fair Labor Standards Act consent judgement

Defendants: Maya Restaurant Inc. operating as Maya Mexican Restaurant, Rigoberto Cobain 

LAS VEGAS – After a 2013 investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor that recovered $47,393 from a Nevada paint and specialty coatings contractor and its owner whose illegal pay practices denied 21 Utah workers overtime wages, a reasonable employer might try to avoid repeating a bad and costly decision.

Cory Summerhays, owner of Unforgettable Coatings Inc. – a Las Vegas company operating in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and Utah – chose instead to double down, and then some. 

AURORA, IL – While workers at a local supermarket stocked shelves, operated cash registers and served customers Mexican hot foods and baked goods, their Aurora employer was denying them their hard-earned overtime pay for two years, the U.S. Department of Labor recently found.

After its investigation, the department’s Wage and Hour Division has recovered a total of $399,851 in back wages and liquidated damages for 49 workers at Supermercado Carrera, a family-owned supermarket.

AURORA, IL – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. descubrió recientemente que mientras que los trabajadores de un supermercado local de Aurora suplían estanterías, operaban cajas registradoras y servían a los clientes comidas y productos mexicanos, su empleador les negó durante dos años sus pagos por horas extra.