February 6, 2025

Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report

In the week ending February 1, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 219,000, an increase of 11,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 1,000 from 207,000 to 208,000. The 4-week moving average was 216,750, an increase of 4,000 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised up by 250 from 212,500 to 212,750.

January 30, 2025

Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report

In the week ending January 25, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 207,000, a decrease of 16,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 223,000. The 4-week moving average was 212,500, a decrease of 1,000 from the previous week's unrevised average of 213,500.

January 24, 2025

US Department of Labor to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under rescinded Executive Order 11246

WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Labor Vince Micone today transmitted Secretary’s Order 03-2025 to all department employees, directing them to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under the rescinded Executive Order 11246 and the regulations promulgated under it.  

The order applies to all department employees, including the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, the Office of Administrative Law Judges and the Administrative Review Board. 

January 23, 2025

Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report

In the week ending January 18, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 223,000, an increase of 6,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 217,000. The 4-week moving average was 213,500, an increase of 750 from the previous week's unrevised average of 212,750.

January 17, 2025

US Department of Labor awards $46.5M in grants to help young people in communities affected by violence, poverty find opportunities to succeed

WASHINGTON – To overcome structural barriers such as violence and poverty that keep many young people from access to employment and reaching their potential, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $46.5 million in grants to support programs that address the impacts of community violence and help justice-involved young people succeed in the labor market. 

January 17, 2025

US Department of Labor finds GE appliance maker willfully exposed workers to machine safety hazards, causing Decatur supervisor’s fatal injuries

DECATUR, AL – Federal workplace safety investigators found that a Decatur manufacturer of GE-brand appliances failed to follow required machine standards that could have prevented a 58-year-old front-line supervisor’s fatal injuries while trying to service a door molding machine.

January 17, 2025

US Department of Labor finds Wilmington contractor’s fall protection failures contributed to worker’s fatal fall at Cutler Majestic Theater worksite

BRAINTREE, MA – A Wilmington construction contractor could have prevented a fatal workplace incident at the Cutler Majestic Theater in Boston that claimed the life of a 44-year-old construction worker in August 2024 by following required fall protection measures, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found. 

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 recovers $319K in back wages for 49 workers misclassified as independent contractors by Louisiana landscaping company

NEW ORLEANS  The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $319,065 in back wages for 49 workers employed by a New Orleans landscaping company that misclassified them as independent contractors and, by doing so, denied them overtime pay.

January 17, 2025

Phoenix drywall, painting contractor must pay more than $7.4M in wages, damages after deliberately denying overtime to over 1,400 employees

PHOENIX – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment ordering two commonly owned Arizona drywall and painting companies to pay $7,450,000 in back wages and damages after investigators found the employers willfully denied overtime pay to more than 1,400 employees.

January 17, 2025

US Department of Labor recovers $446K in back wages, damages from 2 Louisiana home care providers for 88 misclassified workers

NEW ORLEANS  The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $446,334 in back wages and liquidated damages from two northwest Louisiana home care companies that misclassified 88 workers as independent contractors, depriving them of overtime wages in violation of federal law. 

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 17, 2025

US Department of Labor orders Pennsylvania tourist railroad operator to reinstate, compensate worker fired for raising safety concerns

RONKS, PA  - The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered a tourist railroad operator in Ronks, Pennsylvania, and a former company official to reinstate an employee and pay them back wages and damages after they were fired for refusing to issue locomotive and conductor licenses to an untrained and unqualified management official.

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

US Department of Labor cites Florida fertilizer manufacturer for safety failures following worker fatality

MULBERRY, FL – A U.S. Department of Labor investigation determined a Mulberry phosphatic fertilizer manufacturer failed to follow required safety standards, leading to the tragic loss of a 29-year-old process operator in July 2024. 

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 finds Oklahoma mental health clinic contractor illegally fired worker who used federally protected medical leave

Employer name:               CREOKS Health Services, operating as TruHealth Integrated Care

Investigation sites:         4103 South Yale Ave., Suite C 

January 16, 2025

Department of Labor recovers $844K in back wages, damages for 158 workers illegally deprived of overtime wages by Louisiana home care providers

 

NEW ORLEANS  The findings of two recent U.S. Department of Labor investigations show misclassification of employees as independent contractors is an ongoing concern for home care industry workers in Louisiana and throughout the nation as the practice deprives them of their full wages and other important benefits.

January 16, 2025

US Department of Labor approves up to $10M in initial funding to support disaster recovery, response to California’s continuing wildfires

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today approved up to $10 million – with $1 million released initially – in emergency grant funding to California to support disaster-relief jobs and training services for those affected by the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles County.