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 3, 2024

US Department of Labor announces proposed rule to phase out certificates allowing payment of less than minimum wage to workers with disabilities

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a proposed rule that would phase out the issuance of certificates allowing employers to pay some workers with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage, currently $7.25 per hour, for the work they perform.

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 29, 2024

Qvest LLC must pay $171K after federal investigators find sanitation contractor employed 11 children at Sioux City pork processing plant

SIOUX CITY, IA – The U.S. Department of Labor has found a second sanitation contractor at the Seaboard Triumph Foods LLC facility that employed children to perform dangerous work during overnight shifts at its Sioux City pork processing plant.

November 27, 2024

US Department of Labor recovers $184K in back wages, damages, penalties after wage investigation finds Pittsburgh restaurant unlawfully withheld tips

Employer:      

Sly Fox Brewing Company, 331 Circle of Progress Drive, Pottstown, Pennsylvania                           

Investigation sites:                  

Sly Fox Pittsburgh Taphouse at the Point, 300 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh

November 27, 2024

Federal courts orders Detroit security company, HR director to pay $68K in back wages, damages, penalties for shortchanging guards overtime

Employers:    Detroit Body Guards Protection Unit LLC

                             Carla Bland, human resources director

Actions:          Fair Labor Standards Act consent judgment and order

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

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.