U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia traveled to Southeast Pennsylvania today to meet with essential workers and tour a grocery store and e-commerce fulfillment center. Following the tour, he held a roundtable discussion with local employers and business leaders on safely reopening and how the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is strengthening our economy.

The Department is providing a National Health Emergency Dislocated Worker Grant to combat the opioid crisis in Washington state.

Thursday was World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. Learn how the Bureau of International Labor Affairs is partnering to eliminate human trafficking around the world.

The Department will award $8 million in grants to increase tracing of goods made by child labor.

A federal court has ordered the operating entity of two former Connecticut nursing homes and a former officer to pay $3.4 million to its health and retirement plans after a Department investigation and litigation.

A California vehicle claims management company has paid $95,120 to 99 workers to resolve minimum wage violations.

A federal defense contractor has agreed to pay $67,858 to resolve allegations of gender-based hiring discrimination.

• Release: El Paso Independent School District has paid back wages to an employee wrongly denied paid sick leave while self-quarantining
• Release: A California manufacturer will pay back wages after improperly denying coronavirus-related paid sick leave requests

This new fact sheet has guidance for employers on calculating overtime once the Department’s fluctuating workweek final rule goes into effect Aug. 7, 2020.