WHITE PLAINS, NY – Following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, two commonly owned and located White Plains fencing installation contractors paid a total of $206,904 – $103,452 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages – to 18 employees to resolve violations of the overtime and recordkeeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Division investigators found that Colony Fence Inc. and Nico Fence CO LLC:

ATLANTA ─ The U.S. Department of Labor announced today a series of listening sessions with workers, employers and workplace stakeholders on potential revisions to regulations used to enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage and overtime exemptions for executive, administrative and professional employees.

Employer:                              Fernwood Land LLC – operating as Executive Inn

Investigation site:                  9424 Front Beach Road

Panama City Beach, Florida 32407

LANSING, MI – Residential healthcare workers often provide around-the-clock assistance with essential daily living tasks for some of our most vulnerable people. Theirs, however, is an industry where employers’ errant pay practices too often place these caregivers among our nation’s most vulnerable wage earners, as a recent U.S. Department of Labor investigation of a Lansing employer’s pay practices has found.

WHO:             U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division

WHAT:          Fiscal Year 2022 Care Industry Forum

WHEN:          May 25 and 26, 2022

                      9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. CDT

WHERE:       Online event

HOUSTON – Sanitation workers loading and driving waste trucks in rural Southeast Texas communities were paid a straight daily rate, even though they often worked more than 40 hours per week for a Jefferson City, Missouri-based company.

FULTON, MD – Despite serving the needs of the elderly at four Maryland assisted-living facilities with high-quality, compassionate care, 27 essential workers fell victim to employers who showed little concern for their well-being or for paying them all the wages they legally earned.

MANCHESTER, NH - Dos restaurantes de servicio completo en Derry y Londonderry y su propietario han acordado pagar $890,169 ($445,085 en concepto de salarios atrasados y una cantidad igual en concepto de indemnización por daños y perjuicios) a 63 empleados, para resolver numerosas infracciones deliberadas de la La Ley de Normas Justas de Trabajo (FLS

MANCHESTER, NH – Two full-service restaurants in Derry and Londonderry and a general manager have agreed to pay $890,169 – $445,085 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages – to 63 employees to resolve numerous willful violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation and litigation.

Employer name:                    Roanoke Hard Eight LLC

Investigation site:                  Roanoke, Texas

LYNDHURST, NJ – Week after week, a worker at Advantix Logistics Corp. kept finding paychecks short of their expectations. After several complaints to a supervisor, the company responded by firing the worker. When the worker raised concerns that the final paycheck did not include all wages earned, the company threatened continued retaliation.

FORT MYERS, FL – Federal laws exist to ensure employees get all their legally earned wages and when a Fort Myers security group’s pay practices shortchanged the overtime wages of 29 workers, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division helped to recover $107,936 in back wages and liquidated damages owed.

Employer: Señor Frog’s Orlando LLC

Investigation site: 8747 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819

OKLAHOMA CITY - El operador de siete franquicias de restaurantes del área de Oklahoma City afirmó que los trabajadores eligieron salarios por hora más altos en lugar de ser pagados horas extras por más de 40 horas en una semana

OKLAHOMA CITY – The operator of seven Oklahoma City-area taco shop franchises claimed that workers requested higher hourly wages rather than being paid overtime for hours over 40 in a workweek – an illegal agreement whether the workers consented or not – and as a recent U.S. Department of Labor investigation shows, is a costly error by the employer.

Employer:                              Fayetteville Miyabi Inc., operating as Miyabi Japanese Steak Restaurant

Investigation site:                 1990 Skibo Road, Fayetteville, NC 28314

LEWES, DE – Following litigation initiated by the U.S. Department of Labor, a federal court ordered a Delaware landscaping company and its owner to pay $50,622 in liquidated damages to 10 temporary workers.

Employer: Magnolia Processing Inc.

Investigation site: 5255 Hwy 4, Tunica, MS 38676

ESTERO, FL – A federal investigation of three North Miami Beach restaurants that found the operator denied 58 workers their full overtime wages, has recovered $18,705 in back wages and liquidated damages for the affected employees.

LANCASTER, PA – A federal court entered a consent judgment against a Pennsylvania home healthcare agency and its owner after investigators found they denied 193 direct care workers overtime pay.