WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a proposal to rescind the final rule “Implementing Legal Requirements Regarding the Equal Opportunity Clause’s Religious Exemption.” The final rule has been in effect since Jan. 8, 2021. The Federal Register will publish the proposal on Nov. 9, 2021.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on the October 2021 Employment Situation Report:

CHICAGO – A federal court in Chicago has ruled a Lincolnshire provider of employee benefit services must comply immediately with a U.S. Department of Labor administrative subpoena seeking documents for an Employee Benefits Security Administration investigation of unauthorized distributions from employee benefit accounts.

PLEASANT PRAIRIE, WI – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Gilbane Building Co. are partnering with safety advocates and labor unions to protect the safety and health of workers during construction of a new Pleasant Prairie manufacturing facility.

WASHINGTON – La Administración de Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional del Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. anunció hoy una nueva normativa temporal de emergencia para proteger a más de 84 millones de trabajadores contra la propagación del coronavirus en el trabajo.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a new emergency temporary standard to protect more than 84 million workers from the spread of the coronavirus on the job. The nation’s unvaccinated workers face grave danger from workplace exposure to coronavirus, and immediate action is necessary to protect them.

In the week ending October 30, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 269,000, a decrease of 14,000 from the previous week's revised level. This is the lowest level for initial claims since March 14, 2020 when it was 256,000. The previous week's level was revised up by 2,000 from 281,000 to 283,000. The 4-week moving average was 284,750, a decrease of 15,000 from the previous week's revised average. This is the lowest level for this average since March 14, 2020 when it was 225,500. The previous week's average was revised up by 500 from 299,250 to 299,750.

BOSTON – O Tribunal Distrital dos EUA para o Distrito de Massachusetts emitiu uma sentença de consentimento e ordem proibindo permanentemente um empreiteiro de Canton e sua empresa de retaliar os funcionários que cooperam com as investigações da Divisão de Horas e Salários do Departamento de Trabalho dos EUA ou de outra forma reivindicam seus direitos de acordo com a Lei de Padrões Justos do Trabalho (FLSA). O tribunal também ordenou que Capone Bros. Inc. e Charles L.

BOSTON - El tribunal del distrito de EE.UU. por el distrito de Massachusetts ha dictado una sentencia acordada que prohíbe permanentemente que un contratista de Canton y su empresa tomen represalias contra trabajadores que cooperan con investigaciones de la División de Horas y Salarios del Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU., y ejercen de cualquier otra forma sus derechos conforme la Ley de Normas Laborales Justas. El tribunal también ordenó que Capone Bros. Inc. y Charles L.

BOSTON – The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has entered a consent judgment and order enjoining a Canton contractor and his business permanently from retaliating against workers who cooperate with U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigations and otherwise exercise their rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The court also ordered Capone Bros. Inc. and Charles L.

LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas telemarketing enterprise that shortchanged more than 1,328 call center workers has been ordered to pay more than $1.4 million in back wages and liquidated damages by a federal court in San Francisco. The judgement follows a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that found Wellfleet Communications and its owners illegally misclassified employees as independent contractors, forcing them to unlawfully sign away their federal rights and paying them only when they made sales. 

HAMMOND, LA – A Hammond security solutions company illegally denied 23 field operations managers in Louisiana their federal overtime protections. The employees, labeled executives and paid on a salary basis, worked about 60 hours a week, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.

WASHINGTON – In 2010, the state of Rhode Island estimated 153 drug overdose deaths, with 36 of them blamed on illicit drugs. A decade later, 384 residents fatally overdosed with 275 attributed to illicit drugs.

HONOLULU – The owner of a Honolulu restaurant made earning a living difficult for its employees by allowing a manager to illegally keep a portion of workers’ tips and denying overtime pay to salaried cooks who worked an average of 55 hours a week, a recent federal investigation has found.

FORT MYERS, FL – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic partnership with Manhattan Construction Florida Inc. to promote worker safety and health at the Southwest Florida International Airport expansion project in Fort Myers. The University of South Florida On-site Safety and Health Consultation Program is also a partner in the effort.

SAN ANTONIO - El operador de 19 locales de Dairy Queen en el área de San Antonio no pagó a 31 gerentes como es debido y debe pagar salarios atrasados e intereses a los empleados, tras una investigación del Departamento de Trabajo de los Estados Unidos y una orden judicial federal.

SAN ANTONIO – The operator of 19 San Antonio-area Dairy Queen locations failed to pay 31 managers as required and must pay back wages and interest to the employees, following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation and federal court order.

NASHVILLE, TN – Errors in calculating overtime wages of workers who provided lessons, merchandise sales and equipment services to members and guests at a private Nashville country club led the U.S. Department of Labor to recover $93,750 in back wages and liquidated damages for 12 workers.

EL PASO, TX – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced its renewal of a three-year alliance with T&T Staff Management Inc. to provide construction and general industry workers and companies with whom T&T works with information about workplace hazards and resources that promote workers’ rights and safe, healthful workplaces.

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