NEWARK, NJ – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal court order that requires two New Jersey construction companies and their owners and managers to pay $600,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 131 former employees after a federal investigation found the employers engaged in an illegal bonus pay scheme.

PAYETTE, ID – The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $268,417 in back wages and liquidated damages for 76 workers after finding the employer housed them in substandard conditions and wrongly exempted many of them from overtime in violation of federal regulations. 

NEWARK, NJ. - El Departamento de Trabajo de los EE. UU. ha conseguido una orden judicial federal que obliga a dos empresas de construcción de Nueva Jersey y a sus dueños y gerentes a pagar $600,000 en sueldos atrasados y daños y perjuicios a 131 exempleados, después de que, en una investigación federal, se descubriera que los empleadores participaban en un plan de bonus ilegal en el pago de horas extras.

PAYETTE, ID – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. recuperó $268,417 en salarios atrasados ​​y compensación por daños para 76 trabajadores tras descubrir que su empleador los alojaba en condiciones deficientes y eximía a muchos del pago de horas extras, en violación de regulaciones federales.

Employer:      Pace Enterprise LLC, operating as Pace Realty Group 

                             4005 SW 50th Ave. 

                             Amarillo, TX 79109 

PITTSBURGH – In one of the nation’s largest wage recovery judgments, a Pennsylvania federal court has awarded $35.8 million in overtime back wages and liquidated damages to 6,000 current and former workers employed by the operators of 15 residential skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living facilities in western Pennsylvania that willfully denied them overtime pay.

LAS VEGAS – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $475,385 in back wages and liquidated damages from the owner of three Juan’s Flaming Fajitas & Cantina restaurants in Las Vegas and Henderson who did not combine hours worked by 32 employees at more than one location and improperly withheld overtime wages earned by employees.

Empleador:    Investier LLC, operando como Round Table Pizza

                             5016 NE Thurston Way

                             Vancouver, WA 98684

LAS VEGAS – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. ha recuperado $475,385 en salarios no pagados y compensación por daños del dueño de tres restaurantes Juan’s Flaming Fajitas & Cantina en Las Vegas y Henderson que no combinó las horas trabajadas por 32 empleados en más de una ubicación y negó inapropiadamente los salarios por sobretiempo ganados por los trabajadores.

HOUSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a federal court in Houston to stop the owner and operator of 17 single-family residential group homes and a day habilitation center for adults with disabilities from violating several federal employment regulations and to pay dozens of current and former employees back wages they’re owed as well as damages.

Employer:      Investier LLC, operating as Round Table Pizza

                            5016 NE Thurston Way

                            Vancouver, WA 98684

GOOSE CREEK, SC – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $1,091,515 in back wages for 43 employees of a Goose Creek federal contractor that paid them rates lower than required by federal law.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Administrator Jessica Looman issued the following statement in response to multiple inquiries regarding United Airlines’ leave policies:

Employers:    Axis Home PCA Agency Inc. 

Cubtan Nur, owner                    

Action:           Consent judgment and order 

DALLAS – In one of the largest recoveries of its kind, the U.S. Department of Labor has recouped more than $1.5 million in unpaid overtime wages and damages from a heating, ventilation and air conditioning company that deprived 430 technicians of their rights, protections and benefits under law by misclassifying them as independent contractors.

HOUSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit asking a federal court to require the owner and operator of three popular north Houston-area restaurants in Tomball and Spring - that allegedly used a portion of employees’ tips for business expenses, including condiments and takeout packaging - to pay back wages and damages to the affected workers.

Employer:                              Tito’s Taqueria LLC,  898 Putney Road, Brattleboro, VT 05301

Type of action:                      Administrative settlement

HENDERSON, NV – The U.S. Department of Labor has assessed the operators of 10 Blaze Fast Fire’d Pizza locations in Las Vegas and Henderson $277,414 in civil penalties after federal investigators found the employer employed dozens of children to perform dangerous tasks and work more hours than allowed on school days, in violation of federal regulations.

ATLANTIC BEACH, FL – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $288,979 in back wages and liquidated damages for 92 employees after its investigation found an Atlantic Beach property management group’s improper pay practices denied them overtime wages they earned.

Employer name:             LaLobe Inc.

Investigation site:           11661 Preston Road, Suite 140

                                                   Dallas, TX 75230