Employer name: Key Resources Inc.

Investigation site: 3703 West Market St.
Greensboro, North Carolina 27403

Employer: R&R Construction Services Corp.

Sites: Maile Sky Court Hotel
2058 Kuhio Ave., Honolulu Hawaii

AUSTIN, Texas – In nearly every one of its investigations of restaurants in fiscal year 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division says restaurant owners in the Austin area violated federal labor law by not paying their workers the wages they were legally owed.

Date of Action: Sept. 29, 2016

Type of Action:  Filing of lawsuit

Name of Defendant: Jani-King of Oklahoma Inc.
Addison, Texas

NEWARK, N.J. – One hundred and twenty-two employees at a Newark immigration detention facility will receive $4.8 million in back wages and fringe benefits from the County of Essex and one of the nation’s largest providers of re-entry and in-prison treatment services, following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.

Date of Action: Sept. 29, 2016

Type of Action: Lawsuit filing

Name of Defendant: Martin Marietta Materials Inc.

Allegation: The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Martin Marietta Materials Inc. after an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division found that the employer violated the Family Medical Leave Act.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor announced a final rule today requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave to employees who work on or in connection with certain federal contracts. The rule will allow these workers to use paid leave if they are sick, need to take care of a sick family member or must see a doctor or take a family member to a medical appointment. Workers may also use paid sick leave for reasons related to domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.

Employer: Cambridge Management, Inc.

Sites: 1916 64^th Ave. West
Tacoma, Washington

Apartment complexes in Tacoma, Olympia, Chehalis, Spokane, Clarkson, Yakima, Pasco, Quincy, Kennewick, Richland Moses Lake, Sunnyside and Walla Walla

Date of Action: Sept. 23, 2016

Type of Action: Complaint, Consent Judgment and Order

Name of Defendants: Jacky's Galaxie Providence, Inc., doing business as Jacky's Waterplace & Sushi Bar, and Kin Wah Ko. 200 Exchange St., Providence, Rhode Island.

Participants: U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division
Oklahoma Employment Security Commission

SAN FRANCISCO – Oil and gas industry workers often work long hours to provide essential products for the nation’s economy. In return, these employees expect their employers to pay them fairly and fully, as the law requires. For 750 workers employed by one of the world’s largest industry operators, this was not the case.

Employer name: APDC Services Inc., 3059 Michigan Ave., Kissimmee, Florida 34744

Investigation sites:

NEW ORLEANS – Two Gulf Coast staffing agencies have agreed to paid 353 workers nearly $516,000 in back wages after U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found they classified employees incorrectly as independent contractors and mislabeled wages as per-diem reimbursement for expenses never incurred.

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

NEW YORK – For more than a dozen sales clerks, cashiers, stock clerks and security guards at three beauty supply stores in the Bronx and Brooklyn, the hours were long but too often, their pay came up short.

Now, as a result of a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation and the department’s litigation, their employers must pay the 16 workers a total of $218,000 in back wages and liquidated damages.

Employer name: Roadmaster Transportation Inc.

Investigation site: 1640 Stone Ridge Drive, Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083

Participants: U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division
North Carolina Industrial Commission

WASHINGTON – At the U.S. Department of Labor headquarters in Washington today, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez renewed partnership agreements with embassy officials representing the governments of Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru and the Philippines. The renewals come as the department kicks off Labor Rights Week 2016, from today through Sept. 4. This year’s theme is “Your Work Has Dignity. Know Your Rights.”

ST. LOUIS – Their drivers may have delivered the mail through snow, rain, heat and the gloom of night, but 16 mail haulers contracted by the U.S. Postal Service failed to pay full wages and benefits to more than 250 of their drivers in violation of federal law, an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division has found.

CHERRY HILL, N.J. – One of the nation’s largest commercial transportation companies will finally pay driver dispatchers and trailer yard spotters for the long hours they worked, following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.