July 16, 2024

Milwaukee-area group home operator agrees to pay $27K in back wages, damages to caregivers after investigation finds wage violations

Employers:    Community Living of Brookfield LLC, Brookfield, Wisconsin

                             Matthew Sebuliba, owner and operator

 Action:           Consent judgment and order

July 16, 2024

Departamento de Trabajo busca a 72 trabajadores de costura para entregarles salarios, compensación tras recuperar $1,1M en investigación en Los Ángeles

LOS ANGELES – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. ha recuperado más de $1,1 millones en salarios no pagados ​​y compensación por daños de operadores de un contratista textil de Los Ángeles que negó deliberadamente el pago de horas extras a sus empleados. Ahora, el departamento quiere distribuir estos salarios a todas las personas que los ganaron.

July 16, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $170K in back wages for 60 workers denied overtime pay by Virginia transportation company

Employer name:                    

KDK Transport Co.

Investigation site:                  

203 Front St. W., Coeburn, Virginia

July 16, 2024

Department of Labor obtains landmark federal court injunction protecting employees who report workplace injuries from employer retaliation

SEATTLE – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgement from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Tacoma that includes a landmark injunction that permanently prevents the U.S. Postal Service from retaliating against employees at up to 59 locations in the State of Washington. 

July 16, 2024

Department of Labor seeking 72 garment workers still owed back wages, damages after $1.1M recovery in Los Angeles wage theft investigation

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $1.1 million in back wages and damages from operators of a Los Angeles garment contractor that denied overtime wages to its employees deliberately. Now, the department wants to distribute these wages to all of the people who earned them.

July 16, 2024

US Department of Labor seeks nominations for 2025 ERISA Advisory Council

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor announced its Employee Benefits Security Administration is soliciting nominations to fill five, three-year vacancies on the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, known as the ERISA Advisory Council. The deadline to submit nominations is Aug. 26, 2024.

July 15, 2024

US Department of Labor, Office of the Trade Representative announce successful course of remediation at RV Fresh facility in Michoacan

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the successful resolution of a course of remediation addressing alleged labor rights violations at the RV Fresh processing facility in Michoacan, Mexico, under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement Rapid Response Labor Mechanism. The Secretary of Labor and U.S. Trade Representative co-chair the Interagency Labor Committee.

July 15, 2024

Department of Labor finds one of the largest makers of reclaimed rubber flooring exposed Austin-area employees to willful, serious safety violations

AUSTIN, TX – While one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of commercial flooring and surfaces — including recycled rubber products used throughout the nation in playgrounds, fitness centers and sports fields — touts its products’ safety and environmental benefits, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found the company less committed to protecting its own employees.

July 15, 2024

Investigación federal recupera $238,000 en salarios atrasados por horas extras de más de 1000 instaladores empleados por una empresa de equipos solares de Puerto Rico

GUAYNABO, PR: Una investigación del Departamento de Trabajo de los EE. UU. ha recuperado $238,746 en salarios por horas extras adeudados a 1024 instaladores de paneles solares y sistemas que trabajaban para una empresa de energía renovable en Puerto Rico que no incluyó varios bonos en sus salarios y calculó incorrectamente los salarios por horas extras.

July 15, 2024

US Department of Labor awards up to $13.9M to fund pilot programs to deliver info-technology skills, training, job services to Job Corps students

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of up to $3.9 million in funding to Management and Training Corp. and up to $9.9 million to the Net America Corp. to support demonstration projects that provide information technology training and employment services to students at Job Corps centers in the Atlanta and San Francisco regions. 

July 15, 2024

Federal investigation recovers $238K in back overtime wages for over 1,000 installers employed by Puerto Rico solar equipment company

GUAYNABO, PR – A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has recovered $238,746 in overtime wages owed to 1,024 solar panel and system installers employed by a renewable energy company in Puerto Rico that failed to include various bonuses in their salaries and calculated overtime wages incorrectly.

July 15, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $33K in back wages, damages for 11 employees of tire shop that miscalculated overtime wages

Employer:      RNR Tire Express

                       1510 E Kimberly Road                     

                        Davenport, IA 52807     

July 15, 2024

Department of Labor updates eligibility requirements for current, former nuclear weapons workers seeking benefits for beryllium sensitivity

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor announced today a final rule updating eligibility requirements for current and former nuclear weapons workers seeking to file benefits claims related to beryllium sensitivity and making benefits available to people once deemed ineligible will be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, July 16.

July 15, 2024

US Department of Labor finds New Hampshire roofing company improperly classified, shortchanged foreign temporary workers

MANCHESTER, NH – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $167,101 in back wages for 20 workers for a Keene roofing contractor that paid incorrect wages and improper overtime to foreign temporary workers employed through the federal H-2B nonimmigrant program.

July 12, 2024

Illinois contractor continues pattern of exposing construction workers to deadly fall hazards, employees observed in danger four times since January

SAVOY, IL – Federal workplace safety inspectors have cited an Illinois construction contractor for again exposing employees to falls from elevation — the industry’s leading cause of injury and death — as they did residential framing work, this time at four subdivisions under construction in Mahomet and Savoy in January, March and May 2024. 

July 11, 2024

El Departamento de Trabajo anuncia un acuerdo con Dollar General que exige inversiones en seguridad en las tiendas de todo el país

WASHINGTON – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. ha anunciado hoy que su Administración de Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional ha llegado a un acuerdo a nivel corporativo con Dollar General y sus filiales minoristas para realizar importantes mejoras de seguridad en el lugar de trabajo en las tiendas de todo el país.

July 11, 2024

Department of Labor announces settlement with Dollar General requiring corporate-wide safety investments in stores nationwide

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has entered into a corporate-wide settlement with Dollar General and its retail subsidiaries to make significant workplace safety improvements in stores nationwide. 

July 11, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $45K in back wages, damages for 14 workers denied overtime pay by Walnut Creek restaurant

Employer:      El Molino Taqueria 

                             2228 Oak Grove Road

                             Walnut Creek, CA 94598

July 11, 2024

US Department of Labor files complaint, seeks contempt order after owner of 8 Indianapolis home healthcare companies defies court, continues violations

INDIANAPOLIS – Despite a 2022 federal court judgment requiring him to pay his employees overtime, Tim Paul — owner of eight Indianapolis-area healthcare services companies — continues to use improper pay practices, the U.S. Department of Labor alleges in its request that a federal court hold the employer in contempt for ignoring the 2022 decision.