NEW ORLEANS – More than 100 people working as home care companions will receive their share of nearly $355,000 in back wages and damages after investigations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division of two southern Louisiana home care providers under common ownership. 

BOISE, ID – A Nampa-based ice cream manufacturer and retailer faces $321,015 in civil money penalties assessed by the U.S. Department of Labor after investigations found four of its Idaho retail locations put the safety of dozens of children at risk by employing them to perform dangerous tasks and work later than the law allows.

CHESTER, PA – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment against a home healthcare agency and its owner, Teajan Kamara, who had deliberately failed to pay employees their legally earned overtime wages.

Employer:   25 Vape & Smoke LLC

Employer address:    1745 North Laurel Road, London, KY 40741

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and order in federal court that recovers a total of more than $2.4 million in back wages and liquidated damages from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania healthcare staffing agencies that denied 341 employees overtime wages, including employees misclassified as independent contractors. 

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a proposed rule that would phase out the issuance of certificates allowing employers to pay some workers with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage, currently $7.25 per hour, for the work they perform.

Employer:                                    Domo Café Kahala and Domo Café Chinatown

TULSA, OK – El Departamento de Trabajo de los EE. UU.

TULSA, OK – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and injunction to recover $72,000 in back wages and liquidated damages for 20 workers whose Oklahoma employer misapplied the agriculture exemption to retail workers and did not pay overtime to employees who worked more than 40 hours per week regularly. 

SIOUX CITY, IA – The U.S. Department of Labor has found a second sanitation contractor at the Seaboard Triumph Foods LLC facility that employed children to perform dangerous work during overnight shifts at its Sioux City pork processing plant.

Employer:      

Sly Fox Brewing Company, 331 Circle of Progress Drive, Pottstown, Pennsylvania                           

Investigation sites:                  

Sly Fox Pittsburgh Taphouse at the Point, 300 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh

Employers:    Detroit Body Guards Protection Unit LLC

                             Carla Bland, human resources director

Actions:          Fair Labor Standards Act consent judgment and order

PHOENIX – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a judgment in federal court ordering a drywall contractor in Arizona to pay more than $1.7 million in back wages and damages to 246 workers.

Employer:      Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies USA Inc.

                             Fort Wayne, Indiana

Actions:          Fair Labor Standards Act investigation

SAN DIEGO – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU.

Employer:                          Central Park Family Restaurant Inc.

                                                7657 State Road 54 

Employer:      Lincoln Retirement Villa LLC

                        41040 Lincoln Street

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SAN DIEGO – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $1.4 million for 36 Mexican engineers employed in San Diego by a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp., one of the world’s largest defense contractors, that paid them in Mexican pesos below the federal minimum wage rate in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. 

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OXFORD, MS – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment that prevents a Tunica fish farm and processing plant from retaliating against their workers and interfering with federal investigations of their employment practices.