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

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.

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

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.

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 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 recovers $475K for 32 employees denied overtime wages by owner of Juan’s Flaming Fajitas & Cantina restaurants in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $475,385 in back wages and liquidated damages from the owner of three Juan’s Flaming Fajitas & Cantina restaurants in Las Vegas and Henderson who did not combine hours worked by 32 employees at more than one location and improperly withheld overtime wages earned by employees.

July 29, 2024

Departamento de Trabajo recupera $475K para 32 empleados a los que dueño de Juan’s Flaming Fajitas & Cantina en Las Vegas no pagó sobretiempo

LAS VEGAS – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. ha recuperado $475,385 en salarios no pagados y compensación por daños del dueño de tres restaurantes Juan’s Flaming Fajitas & Cantina en Las Vegas y Henderson que no combinó las horas trabajadas por 32 empleados en más de una ubicación y negó inapropiadamente los salarios por sobretiempo ganados por los trabajadores.

July 29, 2024

Department of Labor recovers $129K in tips, damages for employees deprived full earnings by Vancouver pizza franchise operator

Employer:      Investier LLC, operating as Round Table Pizza

                            5016 NE Thurston Way

                            Vancouver, WA 98684

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.

July 29, 2024

Departamento de Trabajo recupera $129K en propinas, compensación para empleados de pizzería de Vancouver a los que se les negó pagas completas

Empleador:    Investier LLC, operando como Round Table Pizza

                             5016 NE Thurston Way

                             Vancouver, WA 98684

July 25, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers more than $1.5M in back wages, damages for 430 HVAC technicians misclassified by Dallas-area company

DALLAS  In one of the largest recoveries of its kind, the U.S. Department of Labor has recouped more than $1.5 million in unpaid overtime wages and damages from a heating, ventilation and air conditioning company that deprived 430 technicians of their rights, protections and benefits under law by misclassifying them as independent contractors.

July 25, 2024

US Department of Labor issues statement on United Airlines’ leave policies

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Administrator Jessica Looman issued the following statement in response to multiple inquiries regarding United Airlines’ leave policies:

July 25, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $135K in back wages, damages for 57 employees denied overtime by Minnesota homecare provider

Employers:    Axis Home PCA Agency Inc. 

Cubtan Nur, owner                    

Action:           Consent judgment and order 

July 25, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers more than $1M in back wages from South Carolina federal contractor for 43 workers

GOOSE CREEK, SC – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $1,091,515 in back wages for 43 employees of a Goose Creek federal contractor that paid them rates lower than required by federal law.

July 22, 2024

Department of Labor recovers $124K in back wages, withheld tips, liquidated damages for 126 employees of restaurants in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont

Employer:                              Tito’s Taqueria LLC,  898 Putney Road, Brattleboro, VT 05301

Type of action:                      Administrative settlement

July 22, 2024

Blaze Fast Fire’d Pizza franchisee faces $277K in penalties after federal investigators find dozens of children employed illegally at 10 Nevada locations

HENDERSON, NV – The U.S. Department of Labor has assessed the operators of 10 Blaze Fast Fire’d Pizza locations in Las Vegas and Henderson $277,414 in civil penalties after federal investigators found the employer employed dozens of children to perform dangerous tasks and work more hours than allowed on school days, in violation of federal regulations.

July 22, 2024

US Department of Labor files suit against owner, operator of 3 popular North Houston restaurants who used workers’ tips illegally to pay expenses

HOUSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit asking a federal court to require the owner and operator of three popular north Houston-area restaurants in Tomball and Spring - that allegedly used a portion of employees’ tips for business expenses, including condiments and takeout packaging - to pay back wages and damages to the affected workers.

July 18, 2024

CLARIFICATION: US Department of Labor recovers $288K in back wages, damages from property management group that willfully denied 92 employees overtime

ATLANTIC BEACH, FL – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $288,979 in back wages and liquidated damages for 92 employees after its investigation found an Atlantic Beach property management group’s improper pay practices denied them overtime wages they earned.