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he U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against the owner and trustees of Building Services Unlimited, Inc., in Louisville, Ky., for failing to make requested contributions to the company’s retirement plan and paying more than fair market value for the stock contributed to the employee stock ownership plan.

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ESA Press Release: Utah Grocery Chain Has Agreed to Pay $650,000 Fine for Child Labor Violations [11/09/1998]

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A Utah-based grocery chain with 172 stores in eight states will pay $650,000 in fines for violations of federal child labor laws. Smith's Food and Drug Centers of Salt Lake City agreed to pay the fine and refrain from future violations.

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ESA Press Release: Ohio Fast Food Company Fined $333,450 for Child Labor Violations; One Minor Injured [11/04/1998]

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An Ohio fast food restaurant company was fined $333,450 for violations of federal child labor laws after a 15-year-old cut her finger while using a meat slicer. The Labor Department found that GZK Inc. of Dayton illegally employed 42 minors.

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ILAB Press Release: U.S. and Mexican Labor Secretaries to Consult on Pregnancy Discrimination [10/26/1998]

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The U. S. Department of Labor today sued Time Warner Inc., Time Inc. and subsidiaries of Time Inc. and officials of nine corporate pension and health plans for wrongly denying coverage by the plans to hundreds of employees. The workers were misclassified as independent contractors or temporary employees and thus were denied coverage.

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ILAB Press Release: Labor Department to Hold Conference with European Union on Employment of People with Disabilities [10/23/1998]

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

ESA Press Release: Blueberry Grower Fined Following the Death of Nine-year-old Worker [10/23/1998]

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The U. S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment requiring Hull Corp. and a trustee of its employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) to pay $541,667 in restitution to the plan and to pay civil monetary penalties to the federal government for violating federal pension law.

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The U. S. Department of Labor has proposed broadening the scope of two class exemptions allowing individual retirement accounts (IRAs) or Keogh pension plans to get free or low cost brokerage or banking services

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The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent order and judgment requiring three corporations and three trustees of the Nomali, Inc. Employees 401(k) plan in Brownsville, Tex., to repay $87,318.00 to its plan participants and beneficiaries for failure to charge the full market value on rental property and land that they authorized the plan to lease.

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The U. S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment against the trustee of a pension and health plan of a Hempstead, New York community service organization for mismanaging plan assets

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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) has awarded two contracts to national computer firms to competitively develop its new Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) Filing Acceptance System -- known as EFAST.

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The U. S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent order and judgment that requires Richard May of Arlington Heights, Ill., to pay more than $14,000 to nine employee benefit plans and permanently bars him from servicing any employee benefit plan governed by federal pension law, except where he is a participant in the ERISA-covered plans of his employer.

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Miletus Associates Inc. of Albuquerque, N.M. and its president agreed to fully reimburse the company’s 401(k) plan for all losses under a consent order obtained by the U. S. Department of Labor.

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

ESA Press Release: United Technologies Receives Highest Honor for Affirmative Action Efforts; Labor Department Recognizes Nine Others for Outstanding Affirmative Action Efforts [10/01/1998]

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

ESA Press Release: R.R. Donnelley Agrees to $425,000 Settlement to Resolve Wage Disparities Within its Professional and Management Staff [09/30/1998]

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The owner of Dallas-based Programmed for Success today was indicted by a Dallas County grand jury for misappropriating $4,044 in pension contributions owed to the company’s retirement plan.

The company is a computer programming services contractor which sponsored a salary reduction simplified employee pension plan (SARSEP). The SARSEP is governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

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The U. S. Department of Labor today announced appointment of the members of the newly created Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee. The advisory committee was created by the department’s Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) to develop a proposed rule that would establish criteria and a process for determining when an employee benefit plan is established or maintained under a collective bargaining agreement.

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

ESA Press Release: Colorado Meatpacker Fined Nearly $1.3 Million for Repeated Violations of Federal Overtime Law [09/18/1998]

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The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a new regulation which will ensure patients a timely, fair internal review when they have a grievance against their health plan and an expedited review for urgent claims.

The proposed regulation, published Wednesday in the Federal Register: