N.Y. Manufacturer Fined, Citations Upheld for Falsely Claiming Violations...
An administrative law judge with the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has upheld citations and penalties from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
View ArticleU.S. Dept. of Labor Orders Tennessee Restaurant Chain to Pay $563K in Back Wages
A small Tennessee restaurant chain has been ordered to pay $563,350 in back wages to 120 employees after the U.S. Department of Labor found it violated minimum wage and overtime rules. Don Pancho...
View ArticleTarget to Enhance Safety at 200 Northeast U.S. Stores in Department of Labor...
The U.S. Department of Labor has executed a region wide corporate settlement agreement with Target Corp. to correct exit access and storage hazards and enhance worker safety at about 200 of the...
View ArticleNew Jersey Ice Cream Manufacturer Cited for Safety Hazards Leading to...
Despite two severe amputation injuries in 2018 and 2020 on the same machine at a Lakewood, New Jersey, ice cream manufacturing plant, a recent federal safety and health inspection found the company...
View ArticleNew Jersey Contractor Fined $200K for Safety Hazards After Worker Injury
A Trenton, New Jersey-based contractor is being fined $201,000 after one of its employees suffered serious injuries when the roof beneath him collapsed. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
View ArticleLouisiana Construction Firm, Feds Reach Settlement in Whistleblower Case
A Louisiana-based construction and hauling firm and the U.S. Department of Labor in late March reached a settlement in a whistleblower/retaliation case. Labor officials had filed administrative orders...
View ArticleNew York Petroleum Carrier Pays $375K for Seaman’s Protection Act Violation
A Long Island, New York-based petroleum barge company and three former and current management officials have paid $375,000 in restitution to the brother of one of two seamen killed in a barge explosion...
View ArticleNew York Contractor to Pay $135K in Penalties After Trench Collapse
A Long Island, New York, superstructure, foundation and concrete company will pay $135,612 in penalties stemming from the collapse of an approximately 30-foot deep trench in Oyster Bay that led to the...
View ArticleBechtel Subsidiary to Pay $200K to Resolve Gender-Based Discrimination Claims...
A provider of contractor services for heavy construction projects has agreed to resolve claims of alleged pay discrimination affecting 22 female employees at its Houston location, federal officials...
View ArticlePenn. Manufacturing Company, Owner Sued for Firing Worker Over Safety Concerns
The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit against a Pennsylvania paper products manufacturing company and its owner after they fired a worker for raising safety concerns and asking several times for...
View ArticleFoodservice Distributor Settles Claims of Discriminatory Hiring at Illinois...
The U.S. Department of Labor said US Foods will pay $159,550 in back pay and interest to 114 female and Black job applicants as part of an to resolve alleged hiring discrimination found at its...
View ArticlePennsylvania USPS Facility Fined More Than $230K for Workplace Safety Violations
A federal workplace safety inspection of a U.S. Postal Service location in Pennsylvania found employees exposed to potentially serious and fatal injuries in the event of an emergency. Responding to a...
View Article3 Houston-Area Denny’s Locations Cited for Wage Violations
Rams Food Inc., the operator of three Denny’s locations in the Houston area, has been cited for wage and overtime violations by U.S. labor officials. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour...
View ArticleCourt: Minnesota Healthcare Provider Must Pay $483K in Back Wages, Damages
The U.S. Department of Labor reached an agreement in which a Minnesota healthcare provider will pay more than $480,000 to settle wage violation allegations. U.S. District Court Judge Wilhelmina M....
View ArticleMassachusetts Contractor Faces $1.3M in Penalties After Workers Die at Dig Site
At a Boston sewer repair worksite in February, Jordy Alexander Castaneda Romero and Juan Carlos Figueroa Gutierrez died after a dump truck struck and pushed them into a nine-foot deep trench. For their...
View ArticleRacial Discrimination Alleged at ABM Janitorial Services’ Maryland, Virginia...
The U.S. Department of Labor has filed an administrative complaint against ABM Janitorial Services after a compliance evaluation by the department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs...
View ArticleNew York Foundry to Pay $276K for Safety, Health Hazards Following Inspection
A Syracuse, New York, iron foundry cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for dozens of health and safety violations has agreed to correct 60 cited...
View ArticleConnecticut Aircraft Parts Manufacturer Cited for Workplace Safety Violations
A Connecticut aircraft parts manufacturer did not take required steps to identify potential exposures and protect employees from hexavalent chromium and cadmium – both known carcinogens – at its...
View ArticleNew York Contractor Faces $374K in Penalties After Fatal Worker Fall
A federal workplace safety investigation has found a Queens, New York, construction contractor failed to provide and ensure the use of effective fall protection safeguards that would have prevented the...
View ArticleTwo Rhode Island Contractors Face $75K in Penalties for Worksite Cave-In Risks
A federal inspection at a Warwick, Rhode Island, excavation found two area contractors ignoring cave-in risks and placing their workers in serious danger. On July 8, 2021, a U.S. Department of Labor...
View ArticleDepartment of Labor Eyeing Arizona OSHA Plan After ‘Pattern of Failures’
The U.S. Department of Labor announced a proposal to reconsider and revoke final approval of Arizona’s State OSHA plan, which the department says is in response to nearly a long “pattern of failures”...
View ArticleDepartment of Labor Reopens Comment Period on Arizona’s OSHA Plan
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is reopening the comment period for an additional 60 days on the proposal to reconsider and revoke the final approval of...
View ArticleCalifornia Workers’ Comp Benefits to Increase in 2023
California’s State Average Weekly Wage rose by more than 5% in the year ending March 31, 2022, which will result in an increase in California workers’ compensation temporary total disability and...
View ArticleKey Biden Administration Labor Policies Will Face Legal Challenges in 2023
The Biden administration and a Democrat-led U.S. labor board will implement a series of major employment policies in 2023 but could be stymied by challenges from business groups and Republican-led...
View ArticleDepartment of Labor Withdrawing Proposal to Revoke Approval of Arizona’s OSHA...
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration plans to withdraw a proposal to reconsider and revoke final approval of Arizona’s for occupational...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Home Care Agency Ordered to Pay $7M in Back Wages, Damages
A federal court has ordered a Philadelphia home care agency and its owner to pay more than $7 million in back wages and damages to 1,230 current and former employees. After two years of litigation,...
View ArticleCalifornia Restaurants Offered Priest to Extract Confessions of Workplace ‘Sins’
Federal wage and hour investigators say a northern California restaurant attempted to use an alleged priest to get employees to admit workplace “sins.” During litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor...
View ArticleUS Slips in Supply-Chain Ranks After Child-Labor Violations
The US has joined a list of mostly emerging-market countries where ESG supply-chain risks are “high,” after the world’s richest economy failed to provide adequate protections for vulnerable populations...
View ArticleNew Contractor Rule to Be Unveiled Soon That Could Upend Gig Economy
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden will release a final rule as soon as this week that will make it more difficult for companies to treat workers as independent contractors rather than...
View ArticleAdded Protection or Opportunity Lost? New Independent Contractor Rule Issued
The U.S. Department of Labor on Jan. 9 issued a final rule, more than a year in the making, on the definition of an independent contractor. First proposed in October 2022, the rule provides guidance to...
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