November 14, 2024

Department of Labor recovers $14K in back wages from Little Rock hospital for employee illegally fired while on family medical leave

Employer:                    Methodist Family Health

Investigation site:   600 Aldersgate Road, Suite 200   

                                          Little Rock, AR 72205

November 14, 2024

US Department of Labor hosts online panel conversation for employers, workers on federal rights, protections for Southeast’s care industries

ATLANTA  Working more than 40 hours a week, a woman providing care to people with disabilities in Augusta thought her employer should be paying her overtime wages. In time, she found the courage to contact the U.S. Department of Labor and soon learned her hunch was worth $11,000 in back wages.

November 13, 2024

El Departamento de Trabajo de los EE. UU. demanda a un operador de National Maintenance Solutions que les negó sus sueldos a los trabajadores e intentó deportar a los empleados que se quejaron

ALBANY, NY - El Departamento de Trabajo de los EE. UU. presentó una demanda para recuperar sueldos atrasados, daños y perjuicios, daños punitivos y medidas cautelares contra un contratista de la construcción de Tonawanda que supuestamente pagaba mal a sus empleados e intentaba deportar a los empleados que se quejaban llamando a las autoridades federales de inmigración.

November 13, 2024

US Department of Labor sues National Maintenance Solutions, operator who denied workers wages, attempted to deport employees who complained

ALBANY, NY – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit to recover back wages, liquidated damages, punitive damages and injunctive relief from a Tonawanda construction contractor that allegedly underpaid employees and tried to have employees who complained deported by calling federal immigration authorities.

November 12, 2024

Department of Labor investigation finds window cleaning company employed children to complete dangerous tasks; required to pay $29K in penalties

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A Grand Rapids window cleaning company must pay $29,210 in civil money penalties for employing three children to complete dangerous tasks while cleaning residential windows and gutters and installing Christmas lights, including one that suffered serious injuries requiring surgery when they fell from a roof.

November 12, 2024

Iron River pizza restaurant agrees to pay $99K in penalties for employing children to operate hot oven, meat grinder; work beyond allowed hours

IRON RIVER, WI – Diners at an Iron River pizza restaurant will soon see teenage workers wearing different colored shirts or name tags; not as part of a marketing promotion but to help managers quickly remember the ages of young employees to avoid assigning them to dangerous duties or employing them to work longer or later than federal child labor laws permit.

November 12, 2024

Department of Labor recovers $863K in wages, damages from 4 California residential care providers that shortchanged minimum, overtime wages

SACRAMENTO, CA – More than 700,000 people work to provide essential home health or personal care to older adults, people with disabilities or special needs in California and, despite their dedication to others’ needs, federal investigators find too many industry employers deceptively denying these hard-working people their full and ri

November 12, 2024

Court enters consent order requiring New Hampshire landscaper to pay employees $310K in wages, liquidated damages

MANCHESTER, NH – The U.S. Department of Labor, following an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division and the filing of a consent order in federal court by the department’s Office of the Solicitor, has recovered a total of $310,193 in back wages and liquidated damages from a Bedford landscaper and contractor who underpaid 60 employees. 

November 12, 2024

US Department of Labor, Travis County DA’s office renew  partnership to expand, improve protection of workers’ wages

Participant:   Travis County District Attorney’s Office

Address:         416 West 11th St.

Austin, TX 78701

Description: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division renewed a memorandum of understanding with the Travis County District Attorney’s Office to expand and improve the protection of the county’s workforce, enforcement of wage laws and level the playing field for responsible employers. 

November 8, 2024

US Department of Labor complaint alleges Indianapolis home care companies’ operator again violated federal wage laws, withheld $86K in wages

INDIANAPOLIS – In 2018, federal investigators cited then owner Hahn March for not paying overtime wages to employees at Aging and Disabled Home Healthcare in Indiana. March again finds herself under scrutiny for allegedly using improper pay practices at two Indianapolis home healthcare companies she owns, Signal Health Group Inc. and SHG Employee Leasing Company. 

November 7, 2024

Federal court orders Pennsylvania home healthcare agency to pay $810K in back wages, damages to 196 workers denied minimum wage, overtime

WYNCOTE, PA – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment requiring a Wyncote home healthcare agency and its owner, Dominique Conner, to pay 196 direct care employees a total of $810,320 in back wages and liquidated damages for routinely not paying workers overtime rates and willfully violating federal law.

November 4, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $877K in wages, benefits for 36 employees underpaid by contractors on federally funded projects in New York City

NEW YORK  The U.S. Department of Labor recovered a total of $877,834 in back wages and fringe benefits from three Long Island contractors for 36 employees who were underpaid for their work on two New York projects funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 

October 31, 2024

US Department of Labor finds Temple City home care company ignoring overtime requirements for 3rd time, recovers $145K in unpaid wages, damages

Employer:      T.G.H. Management Group Inc., operating as Temple Garden Homes

                        5120 Baldwin Ave.

October 31, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $109K in back wages, benefits from Maryland contractor that underpaid 55 workers at Eglin AFB

Employer:   Crystal Enterprises Inc.

Employer address:    10837 Lanham Severn Road, Glenn Dale, MD 20769

October 30, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $53K in back wages, damages from cleaning service that misclassified 59 workers as independent contractors

Employer:                              Finichel LLC, operating as Finichel Cleaning Services 

Investigation site:                  801 Mohawk Drive

West Columbia, SC 29169

October 28, 2024

Department of Labor seeks Kentucky highway construction industry’s input to set accurate prevailing wage, fringe benefits for workers

LOUISVILLE, KY – The U.S. Department of Labor encourages employers and others in Kentucky’s highway construction industry to complete a statewide prevailing wage rates survey to help its Wage and Hour Division establish accurate pay and fringe benefits for workers on federally funded and assisted construction projects.

October 24, 2024

US Department of Labor announces collaboration with New York to promote labor law compliance, child labor enforcement

Date of action:           Oct. 3, 2024 

Participants:              U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division 

                        New York State Department of Labor, Division of Labor Standards

October 22, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers more than $1B in wages, damages for 615,000 workers under Biden-Harris administration

WASHINGTON –The Biden-Harris administration today announced that the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division recovered more than $1 billion in back wages and damages for our nation’s workers since the start of the Biden-Harris administration. The recoveries derive from investigations concluded by the division from Jan. 20, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2024.