CENTER, TX –  Una investigación federal recuperó $247,334 en salarios atrasados y daños y perjuicios para 15 trabajadores de una empresa de construcción de oleoductos de Texas a quienes se les negó su salario completo, incluidas las horas extras. Los trabajadores estaban empleados en las obras de la empresa en Luisiana, Oklahoma y Texas.

Employer:                                          Smoky Hearth LLC

Investigation site:                             16607 Champion Way #100

                                                                     Sandy, OR 97055

CENTER, TX – A federal investigation recovered $247,334 in back wages and liquidated damages for 15 workers of a Texas oil pipeline construction company whose pay practices denied them their full wages, including overtime. The workers were employed at the company’s Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas job sites.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division and Office of the Chief Information Officer today launched an app for use on Android devices that helps track work hours, break time, overtime hours and calculates wages due. The department previously launched the iOS version of the division’s Timesheet App.

PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh restaurant and distillery used its tip pool improperly – requiring servers to share tips with managers and supervisors– in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, a federal investigation has found.

Employer name:                    Valley Veterinary Associates, 647 State Highway 7, Unadilla, New York 13849

SPARTANBURG, SC – A federal investigation into child labor violations at a Spartanburg Bojangles has led the franchisee to partner with the U.S. Department of Labor to make sweeping changes to enhance working conditions for minor-aged workers and compliance with labor laws at the operator’s 93 locations in six states.

Employer name:                      Sandpiper Autobody                                               

Investigation site:                  470 W. State St.

                                                          Pleasant Grove, UT 84062

Nombre del empleador:                   Envirotech Mechanical Systems LLC                                                                                               

Lugar de investigación:                    270 Lake Meadows Drive

                                                                      Montgomery, TX  77316

Employer name:                    Envirotech Mechanical Systems LLC                                                                                         

Investigation site:                 270 Lake Meadows Drive

                                                         Montgomery, TX  77316

MANASQUAN, NJ – A federal investigation has found that a popular chain of sandwich shops allowed 14- and 15-year-old workers to work beyond and outside hours permitted by child labor laws.

Employer:                                          Controlled Blasting Inc.

                                                            1159 Finch Road

                                                            Winder, GA 30680

Employer:                                        

A&G Auto Service and Repair Inc.

operating as Magic Wheels Auto World Inc.

15252 Spring Hill Drive, Brooksville, FL  34604

MEMPHIS, TN – The operator of a Memphis Schlotzsky’s restaurant endangered minor-aged workers, the U.S. Department of Labor found after an investigation into a 16-year-old worker’s thumb injury.

SEATTLE – Una investigación del Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. que descubrió las costosas fallas de un contratista de mano de obra agrícola a la hora de proteger a trabajadores del campo temporales y migrantes dio un giro inesperado cuando los investigadores descubrieron que el empleador había negado a 165 de estos trabajadores más de $80,000 en salarios por horas extra dedicadas a limpiar el popular Anfiteatro Gorge.

GUAYNABO, PR – Un juez federal ha ordenado que dos restaurantes de San Juan y sus dueños paguen una suma de $31,630 a 19 trabajadores después de que los dueños retuvieran los salarios atrasados que aseguraron al Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. que pagarían a los empleados después de que una investigación descubriera que sus prácticas de pago infringían la ley federal.

GUAYNABO, PR – A federal judge has ordered two San Juan restaurants and their owners to pay a total of $31,630 to 19 workers after the owners withheld back wages they assured the U.S. Department of Labor they would pay the employees after an investigation found their pay practices violated federal law.

ATLANTA – The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia has ordered the owner of a Stone Mountain insurance agency to pay $50,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to a worker terminated after inquiring about pay. 

LAS VEGAS - Una reciente investigación federal descubrió que una empresa de paisajismo de Reno (que emplea trabajadores expuestos al exterior, incluso en los días de verano en que la temperatura puede alcanzar los 90 grados) pagó de menos intencionalmente a 57 de sus trabajadores al negarles los salarios por horas extras que les debían.

LAS VEGAS – A recent federal investigation has found that a Reno landscaping company – that employs workers exposed to the outdoors, including on summer days when temperatures can peak at 90 degrees – intentionally shortchanged 57 of its workers by denying them overtime wages they were owed.