August 5, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $82K in back wages, liquidated damages for employees of Manhattan real estate developer, managers that again withheld overtime

Date of action:                       May 24, 2024

Type of action:                      Consent judgment 

August 5, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $135K in back wages, damages for 77 employees denied overtime by Ware Landscaping

Employers:    Ware Landscaping, Naperville, Illinois

                             Michael Ware, owner

Action:           U.S. Department of Labor complaint and consent judgment filing

August 5, 2024

US Department of Labor awards $800K in initial funding to support disaster recovery in response to New Mexico’s continuing wildfires

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an initial award of $800,000 in emergency dislocated worker grant funding to support cleanup and recovery activities in response to the South Fork and Salt forest fires that began in New Mexico’s Otero County on June 17, 2024. Spreading quickly, the fires have already devastated more than 25,000 acres of mountain forest land, and about 1,400 structures and 500 homes in Lincoln and Otero counties and on the Mescalero Tribe Reservation.

August 5, 2024

US Department of Labor awards over $1.5M to continue employment, training services for Fort Bliss service members, spouses transitioning from military

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an incremental award of more than $1.5 million to support employment and training services for transitioning military service members and their spouses at and around the U.S. Army’s Fort Bliss installation near El Paso, Texas. 

August 2, 2024

Department of Labor recovers $57K in back wages for inspectors denied overtime by West Virginia’s state mine health, safety, training agency

Employer:      

West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training, 7 Players Club Drive, Suite 2, Charleston, WV  25311

August 2, 2024

Statement by Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su on July jobs report

WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su issued the following statement on the July 2024 Employment Situation report:

“Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the American economy added 114,000 jobs in July, bringing the total to nearly 16 million jobs created under the Biden-Harris administration. While job growth came in below expectations, with an average of 170,000 jobs added per month over the last three months, the American economy is still the envy of the world. 

August 1, 2024

El Departamento de Trabajo de los EE. UU. consigue una orden judicial contra empresas constructoras del norte de Nueva Jersey y sus dueños a pagar $600,000 en salarios y daños y perjuicios a 131 trabajadores

NEWARK, NJ. - El Departamento de Trabajo de los EE. UU. ha conseguido una orden judicial federal que obliga a dos empresas de construcción de Nueva Jersey y a sus dueños y gerentes a pagar $600,000 en sueldos atrasados y daños y perjuicios a 131 exempleados, después de que, en una investigación federal, se descubriera que los empleadores participaban en un plan de bonus ilegal en el pago de horas extras.

August 1, 2024

Department of Labor investigation of trench fatality finds El Paso contractor repeatedly, willfully failed to follow federal safety measures

EL PASO, TX An El Paso contractor could have prevented a 37-year-old employee from suffering fatal injuries in February 2024 by following federally required safety standards to avoid trench collapses, the same failure for which the U.S.

August 1, 2024

Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. recupera $268K en salarios atrasados, compensación para 76 trabajadores de planta procesadora de cebollas

PAYETTE, ID – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. recuperó $268,417 en salarios atrasados ​​y compensación por daños para 76 trabajadores tras descubrir que su empleador los alojaba en condiciones deficientes y eximía a muchos del pago de horas extras, en violación de regulaciones federales.

August 1, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $268K in back wages, damages for 76 workers employed by onion processing plant

PAYETTE, ID – The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $268,417 in back wages and liquidated damages for 76 workers after finding the employer housed them in substandard conditions and wrongly exempted many of them from overtime in violation of federal regulations. 

August 1, 2024

READOUT: Acting Secretary Su leads US delegation, promotes workers’ rights at G20 Labor and Employment Ministers Meeting in Brazil

WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su and a delegation from the department’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs joined labor ministers to discuss shared labor and employment priorities at the G20 Labor and Employment Ministers’ Meeting in Fortaleza, Brazil, from July 25 to 26, 2024. 

August 1, 2024

Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report

In the week ending July 27, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claimswas 249,000, an increase of 14,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 235,000. The 4-week moving average was 238,000, an increase of 2,500 from the previous week's unrevised average of 235,500.

August 1, 2024

US Department of Labor obtains judgment ordering North Jersey construction companies, owners to pay $600K in wages, damages to 131 workers

NEWARK, NJ – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal court order that requires two New Jersey construction companies and their owners and managers to pay $600,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 131 former employees after a federal investigation found the employers engaged in an illegal bonus pay scheme.

July 31, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $150K in back wages, damages for 37 misclassified Amarillo maintenance, parts runners denied overtime pay

Employer:      Pace Enterprise LLC, operating as Pace Realty Group 

                             4005 SW 50th Ave. 

                             Amarillo, TX 79109 

July 31, 2024

US Department of Labor announces $45M in funds available to improve employment opportunities for young people affected by violence, poverty

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of $45 million in funding to support programs to provide skills training through work-based learning, employment services, educational support and mentorship to young adults, ages 15 to 24, in communities affected by violence, crime and poverty. 

July 30, 2024

Department of Labor, Office of the Trade Representative reach agreement with Mexican government to protect labor rights at Puebla Volkswagen plant

WASHINGTON – The U.S. and Mexican governments today announced an agreement on a course of remediation at the Volkswagen vehicle assembly plant in Puebla, Mexico, in response to a petition filed under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s Rapid Response Labor Mechanism. 

July 30, 2024

Federal court awards $35.8M in back wages, damages in historic recovery after investigation finds wage theft by Pennsylvania healthcare employers

PITTSBURGH – In one of the nation’s largest wage recovery judgments, a Pennsylvania federal court has awarded $35.8 million in overtime back wages and liquidated damages to 6,000 current and former workers employed by the operators of 15 residential skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living facilities in western Pennsylvania that willfully denied them overtime pay.

July 29, 2024

US Department of Labor files suit to force Houston-area owner, operator of homes for people with special needs to pay overtime wages, damages

HOUSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a federal court in Houston to stop the owner and operator of 17 single-family residential group homes and a day habilitation center for adults with disabilities from violating several federal employment regulations and to pay dozens of current and former employees back wages they’re owed as well as damages.