NEW ORLEANS – Among the nation’s lowest paid workers, home healthcare employees are asked to work long hours routinely to provide help to people in need. Too often, these workers are shortchanged by employers’ unfair pay practices as was the case for 118 employees of two North Louisiana home healthcare providers, Twin City Home Care Services in Monroe and Divine Services LLC in Minden. 

Employer name:        JODE LLC, operating as Baskin Robbins 

Investigation sites:   51 Northwest State St., American Fork, UT 84003

                                             530 S. Main St., Bountiful, UT 84010

                                             435 State, St., Clearfield, UT 84015

                                            1088 E Gentile St., Layton, UT 84041

Nombre del empleador:        JODE LLC, que opera como Baskin Robbins 

Lugares de investigación:     51 Northwest State St., American Fork, UT 84003

                                                            530 S. Main St., Bountiful, UT 84010

                                                            435 State, St., Clearfield, UT 84015

Employers:    Red Oak Tree Service Inc., Crystal Lake, Illinois

                        Humberto Gonzalez, owner

Action:           U.S. Department of Labor complaint filing

Court:             U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Western Division (Rockford)

BOSTON. El Departamento de Trabajo de los EE. UU. recuperó $199,433 en salarios atrasados para 37 trabajadores tras descubrir que un subcontratista de construcción de Lawrence no pagó los salarios vigentes ni las prestaciones complementarias a los empleados que trabajaban en un proyecto financiado con fondos federales en un centro médico del Departamento de Asuntos de Veteranos en Providence, Rhode Island.

SACRAMENTO – Widespread violations of federal labor and contracting regulations by nearly three dozen employers with federally funded contracts at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake resulted in the U.S. Department of Labor recovering more than $1.5 million in back wages and damages for more than 400 workers at the Ridgecrest facility.

BOSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $199,433 in back wages for 37 workers after finding a Lawrence construction subcontractor failed to pay prevailing wages and fringe benefits to employees working on a federally funded project at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Providence, Rhode Island.

Employer:                              Fastrip Sacramento Inc., operating as Fastrip Food Store

                                                8061 Florin Road

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HONOLULU – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has recovered $368,992 in back wages and damages for 16 employees of an Oahu restaurant — owned by one of Japan’s largest brewing and distilling companies — whose operators denied overtime wages to salaried cooks and chefs, some of whom worked up to 70 hours per week.

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BALTIMORE – U.S. Department of Labor investigations at four northern Virginia Jersey Mike’s franchise locations have found the operator allowed more than a dozen employees under the age of 16 to perform dangerous tasks and work longer than permitted in violation of federal child labor regulations.

BOSTON – Un tribunal federal de Boston dictó una sentencia acordada por las partes en mayo de 2023, en la que ordenó a dos agencias de reclutamiento del condado de Middlesex y a sus propietarios pagar un total de $256,992 en concepto de salarios atrasados e indemnización por daños y perjuicios a 238 empleados actuales y exempleados que ocupaban puestos en empresas de Maine, Massachusetts y New Hampshire.

PHOENIX – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $607,395 in back wages for 227 people working on an extension of the Valley Metro Light Rail system in the Phoenix metro area. 

BOSTON – A federal court in Boston entered a consent judgment in May of 2023, ordering two Middlesex County employment staffing agencies and their owners to pay a total of $256,992 in back wages and liquidated damages to 238 current and former employees who were placed with businesses in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. 

PARK HILLS, MO – A Park Hills vegetable farming and packing operation will pay $479,983 in back wages to 208 workers, following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.

Employer:      Supermart El Torito Inc.

                        1409 Central Avenue

                         Kansas City, KS 

BOSTON – When the owner of three Tutti Frutti frozen yogurt shops in Massachusetts and New Hampshire terminated an employee who asserted their rights to the tips they had earned, the company violated anti-retaliation provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and found themselves facing costly consequences after a U.S.

Employer:      Family Hands Adult Care Facility LLC 

                        10016 LaSalle Ave.

EVANSVILLE, IN – After learning an Evansville employer has engaged in an ongoing attempt to deprive current and former employees of the money found due to them following a federal wage investigation, the U.S. Department of Labor asked a federal court to issue a temporary restraining order and injunction against Friendship Diner LLC and its owner, Bardhyl Shabani, and award punitive damages to employees.