January 9, 2024

El Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. recupera $184,000 en propinas, salarios atrasados y daños y perjuicios para 56 trabajadores en 2 restaurantes de New Hampshire

MANCHESTER, NH – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. ha recuperado $184,008 en propinas, salarios atrasados y daños y perjuicios para 56 empleados de dos restaurantes en New Hampshire a quienes les negaron el total de sus salarios y sus propinas, después de una investigación realizada por la División de Horas y Salarios del departamento. 

January 9, 2024

US Department of Labor announces final rule on classifying workers as employees or independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a final rule to help employers and workers better understand when a worker qualifies as an employee and when they may be considered an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

January 9, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $127K in back wages, damages for 26 maintenance workers denied overtime by Dothan employer

DOTHAN, AL The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $127,249 in back wages and liquidated damages for 26 workers at an aviation maintenance shop employed by a Dothan staffing company that misclassified them as independent contractors and denied overtime wages. 

January 9, 2024

US Department of Labor seeks to recover back wages for more than 600 skilled nursing workers whose employers allegedly withheld wages

BOSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a complaint in federal court in Boston, alleging that 25 Massachusetts skilled nursing facilities in 21 communities intentionally withheld overtime wages to at least 624 employees and failed to maintain accurate employment records.

January 9, 2024

Nation’s largest Bojangles franchisee enters compliance agreement, pays $27K in penalties after Department of Labor finds child labor violations again

POWELL, TN – The nation’s largest Bojangles franchise owner will make enterprise-wide changes to improve working conditions for minor-aged employees and compliance with federal labor regulations at their 118 locations in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina and Tennessee after entering an enhanced compliance agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor. 

January 9, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $184K in tips, back wages, damages for 56 low-wage workers at 2 New Hampshire restaurants

MANCHESTER, NH – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $184,008 in tips, back wages and liquidated damages for 56 restaurant employees denied their full wages and tips by the operators of two New Hampshire restaurants after an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division

January 9, 2024

Indiana restaurant operator ordered to pay $78K in back wages, liquidated damages to 13 employees after coercing workers to return wages in 2021 

HAMMOND, IN – The owner and manager of a Hobart restaurant must pay $78,799 in back wages and liquidated damages to 13 workers after federal investigators found they coerced the employees to return monies they agreed to pay following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division in 2021.

January 8, 2024

US Department of Labor obtains court judgment ordering Columbus nonprofit to pay $332K after violating rights of workers with disabilities

COLUMBUS, MT – A federal court has ordered the operator of a Columbus residential care facility to pay $332,972 in back wages and liquidated damages to 35 resident workers after the U.S. Department of Labor found the employer underpaid the workers and violated federal law protecting workers with disabilities.

January 8, 2024

El Departamento de Trabajo de los EE. UU. recupera $230,000 para 545 trabajadores de una planta de procesamiento de carne de Nebraska a los que se denegó el pago de las tareas previas y posteriores al turno de trabajo

HASTINGS, NE: El Departamento de Trabajo de los EE. UU. ha recuperado $230,000 para 545 trabajadores de una planta de procesamiento de carne de Hastings a los que se denegó una compensación por el trabajo previo y posterior al turno, como ponerse y quitarse el equipo de protección y el tiempo de limpieza del equipo.

January 8, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $124K in back wages, damages from Florida restaurant employers who denied 39 employees’ full wages

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Employers:                            La Catrina 1 Inc., operating as La Catrina Tacos & Tequila Bar

January 8, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $230K for 545 workers in Nebraska meat processing plant denied pay for required pre- and post-shift tasks

HASTINGS, NE – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $230,000 for 545 workers at a Hastings meat processing plant that were denied compensation for pre- and post-shift work such as donning and removing protective gear and equipment cleaning time.

January 4, 2024

Departamento de Trabajo recupera $180K en salarios y daños para trabajadores de tres contratistas de Orange County que pagaron de menos

SANTA ANA, CA – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. ha recuperado $180,299 en salarios atrasados y compensación por daños de tres contratistas de construcción residencial del Condado de Orange cuyas prácticas salariales violaron regulaciones federales, negando a los trabajadores el total de sus pagos legales y legítimos.

January 4, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $26K in back wages, damages from Checkers franchisee that denied overtime, minimum wages to 36 workers

MONTGOMERY, AL – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $26,927 in back wages and liquidated damages for 36 employees of an Alabama fast-food enterprise that allowed management at two of its Montgomery locations to deduct time worked illegally, which led to federal minimum wage and overtime violations.

January 4, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $180K in back wages, damages from trio of Orange County contractors found shortchanging employees

SANTA ANA, CA – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $180,299 in back wages and damages from three Orange County residential construction contractors whose employment pay practices violated federal regulations and denied workers their rightful and legal wages.

Some of the violations related to an employer’s misclassification of employees as independent contractors, a common violation in the construction industry that deprives workers of full and proper wages, benefits and worker protections under federal law. 

January 3, 2024

Department of Labor recovers $1.1M for 165 garment workers after sewing contractors withheld overtime wages, falsified records

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an investigation recovered more than $1 million in back wages and damages — its largest settlement to date for California garment workers — for 165 workers after finding a Los Angeles garment contractor denied them overtime wages illegally and then tried to conceal the wage theft. 

January 3, 2024

US Department of Labor investigation, litigation recovers $108K in back wages, damages for 47 workers employed by Rhode Island contractors

Date of action:                       Sept. 28, 2023            

January 3, 2024

US Department of Labor files suit seeking approximately $500K for 18 employees of Pasadena restaurant that illegally kept portion of their tips

Employer:      2 Poto Inc., operating as Entre Nous French Bistro

                        119 West Green St.

December 20, 2023

US Department of Labor seeks to recover more than $508K in back wages, damages owed to 49 workers employed by Richfield grocery stores’ operators

RICHFIELD, MN – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit to recover more than $508,000 in back wages and liquidated damages owed to employees of two Richfield grocery stores whose operators paid them an “artificially” low hourly rate to make it appear the employers paid the proper overtime rate.