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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BIRMINGHAM, AL - En el sureste, la industria de control de plagas emplea a más trabajadores que en cualquier otro lugar del país, y paga a sus trabajadores algunos de los salarios más bajos de la industria.

BOSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has awarded the agency’s Alliance Program Ambassador designation to Lamar Advertising Co., one of the world’s largest outdoor advertising firms. The award recognizes the company’s continued partnership with OSHA to address workplace safety and health hazards in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

BIRMINGHAM, AL – In the Southeast, the pest control industry employs more workers than anywhere in the nation, and pays its workers some of the industry’s lowest wages. So, when Beebe’s Pest & Termite Control – operating in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi – failed to pay all of the wages earned by 28 workers, the employer made it even harder for them to make ends meet.

ROSEDALE, LA - El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. ha obtenido dos órdenes judiciales preliminares acordadas en el Tribunal de Distrito de EE.UU.

ROSEDALE, LA – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained two agreed preliminary injunctions in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Louisiana in Baton Rouge to prevent a Rosedale farm, its owner and anyone acting on their behalf, from intimidating, threatening, restraining, coercing, black listing, discharging or in any manner discriminating against any person who has engaged in any protected activity.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a final rule that sets reasonable limits on the amount of time tipped employees can spend in non-tipped activities when the employer receives a tip credit.

In the week ending October 23, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 281,000, a decrease of 10,000 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 1,000 from 290,000 to 291,000. The 4-week moving average was 299,250, a decrease of 20,750 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 250 from 319,750 to 320,000.

WASHINGTON, DC – Record-breaking heat in the U.S. in 2021 endangered millions of workers exposed to heat illness and injury in both indoor and outdoor work environments. Workers in outdoor and indoor work settings without adequate climate-controlled environments are at risk of hazardous heat exposure, and workers of color are exposed disproportionately to hazardous levels of heat in essential jobs across these work settings.

LOUISVILLE, KY – A Louisville-based maker of eyeglasses and other optical goods that allegedly discriminated against 654 Black and white applicants for production positions will pay $227,636 in back wages and interest to the applicants, and make 31 job offers as positions become available.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration today announced Field Assistance Bulletin 2021-02, “Temporary Enforcement Policy on Prohibited Transaction Rules Applicable to Investment Advice Fiduciaries.”

NEW YORK – For several years, workers for a building services contractor maintained HVAC services, electrical and lighting systems, elevators, fire safety equipment and internal mail distribution at a federal office building in Jamaica, Queens, under a federal contract with the Social Security Administration. The contract was worth $3.4 million in its final year.