December 19, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $290K in back wages, damages from Georgia hotel operator that denied 95 employees overtime

Employer:                  

YK Murli LLC operating as Baymont Inn & Suites 

 

Employer address:    

8220 South Main St.

Helen, GA 30545

 

December 18, 2024

Minneapolis restaurant group Boludo will pay $105K in back wages, damages, penalties after US Department of Labor finds overtime violations

MINNEAPOLIS – Four Minneapolis restaurants with shared ownership will pay $105,784 in back wages, damages and penalties to resolve violations identified by U.S. Department of Labor, including illegally firing an employee who cooperated with investigators.

December 17, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $125K in back wages, damages from operators of 3 Chicago area restaurants for 53 workers denied overtime

Employers:    D’Nuez Corp.

                            Antonio Rendon

                            Albino Rendon           

December 16, 2024

Court orders founder, operator of 6 Teriyaki Grill locations in Utah to pay $198K in wages, damages to 20 workers shortchanged overtime

SALT LAKE CITY  The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and injunction against the operator of six Teriyaki Grill locations in Utah who denied 20 employees their legally earned overtime wages.

December 16, 2024

Department of Labor recovers $355K in back wages, damages from Louisiana home care providers for 114 workers deprived of full wages

 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. 

December 9, 2024

Federal court judgment finds Philadelphia-area home care agency owes $414K in back wages, liquidated damages to 62 workers denied overtime

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.

December 4, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $24K in back wages, damages from Kentucky employer that denied 22 London smoke shop workers overtime

Employer:   25 Vape & Smoke LLC

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

December 3, 2024

Department of Labor obtains consent judgment ordering 2 healthcare staffing companies to pay a total of more than $2.4M in back wages, liquidated damages to 341 employees

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

December 2, 2024

Department of Labor obtains judgment to recover $72K in wages, damages for 20 workers denied full wages by Oklahoma farm, landscape stores

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. 

November 26, 2024

Department of Labor obtains judgment ordering Arizona contractor to pay $1.7M after denying drywall workers their owed wages

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.

November 22, 2024

Fort Wayne auto emissions manufacturer will pay $101K in back wages, damages to 260 workers for shortchanging them overtime

Employer:      Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies USA Inc.

                             Fort Wayne, Indiana

Actions:          Fair Labor Standards Act investigation

November 21, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $87K in back wages, damages from New Port Richey restaurant for 21 workers denied minimum wage, overtime

Employer:                          Central Park Family Restaurant Inc.

                                                7657 State Road 54 

November 20, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $137K in back wages, damages from Fremont retirement home that knowingly shortchanged 20 workers

Employer:      Lincoln Retirement Villa LLC

                        41040 Lincoln Street

November 19, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers over $1.4M in back wages, damages for 36 Mexican engineers employed by General Dynamics subsidiary in San Diego

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

November 15, 2024

Department of Labor recovers $56K in back wages, damages from logistics provider that miscalculated 234 workers’ overtime in Indiana, Michigan

Employer:      Liberty Hill Equity Partners LLC 

                              559 Liberty Hill

                              Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

Locations:      Precision Vehicle Holdings LLC