JACKSON, MS – Federal investigators have determined that the employer of a 25-year-old welder – who suffered fatal injuries in an explosion at a Flora work site in July 2022 – could have prevented the tragedy by following federal workplace safety standards. 

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.

SIOUX FALLS, SD ‒ Employees working for the same local contractor at two different Sioux Falls locations avoided tragedy after facing potentially deadly electrocution and trench cave-in hazards.

HO-HO-KUS, NJ – Dos trabajadores de techos muertos – víctimas de caídas laborales prevenibles en Nueva York – ambos en el mes de febrero – el primero en 2019 en Kameisha Lake y

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.

LONE JACK, MO – A federal workplace safety investigation at a Lone Jack cattle processing plant – now cited seven times by inspectors for endangering workers since March 2020 – found employees exposed to high levels of carbon dioxide.  

LOUISVILLE, KY – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $188,000 for 125 employees at two Louisville coffee shops that illegally allowed managers to keep a portion of the tips earned by workers.

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.  

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

                             3540 SC-Highway 153

                             Greenville, SC 29611

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.

HO-HO-KUS, NJ – Two roofing workers dead – victims of preventable workplace falls in New York – both in the month of February – the first in 2019 in Kameisha Lake and the sec

Participants:   Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Buffalo Area Office

                         Lehigh Construction Group Inc.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on the January 2023 Employment Situation Report:

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.

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.  

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.

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.   

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.

TALLAHASSEE, FL – Three construction contractors might have prevented the death of a 31-year-old laborer who suffered fatal injuries after falling while installing roof trusses at a Tallahassee work site on Aug. 17, 2022, a federal workplace safety investigation has found.

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.