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Mondaq News Alerts
April 27, 2018
In a welcome departure from its recent practice, the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) recently issued its first new opinion letters in almost ten years. In addition to issuing three new opinion letters earlier this month, on January 5, 2018, WHD reissued seventeen opinion lettersÃâà...
Tribune-Review
April 27, 2018
More than 1,000 employees of a Harrisburg-based bar and grill franchise will receive back pay for wages not paid to them over a 30-month period, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. In a settlement agreement, Arooga's Grille House and Sports Bar agreed to pay $375,003 to 1,039 current andÃâà...
Lexology
April 26, 2018
In a welcome departure from its recent practice, the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) recently issued its first new opinion letters in almost ten years. In addition to issuing three new opinion letters earlier this month, on January 5, 2018, WHD reissued seventeen opinion lettersÃâà...
Carlisle Sentinel
April 26, 2018
In a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor, Arooga's Grille House and Sports Bar agreed to pay current and former servers, cooks and assistant ... The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division conducted an investigation into the payment of employees in Camp Hill, Mechanicsburg, York,Ãâà...
Law.com
April 26, 2018
Trouble is brewing for a New London-based home care business caught in the federal government's crosshairs in a case that will test overtime requirements for employees who spend the night where they work. A new federal lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Labor alleges Care At Home LLC founderÃâà...
KWQC-TV6
April 25, 2018
ORIGINAL: According to the United States Department of Labor, investigators found that nearly 250 workers with disabilities are being improperly paid by Rock River Valley Self Help Enterprises in Sterling. The department revoked the company's certificate after finding out those workers were beingÃâà...
ABC 57 News
April 24, 2018
By KATRINA LAMANSKY, Web Staff. STERLING, Illinois (WQAD/CNN) -- The U.S. Department of Labor is forcing a Sterling nonprofit of exploiting nearly 250 workers, violating labor laws and occasionally paying workers with gift cards instead of wages. Self-Help Enterprises Inc., which employs people withÃâà...
Milton Daily Standard
April 24, 2018
United States District Judge Matthew W. Brann issued the ruling Thursday in favor of United States Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta in the labor ... In his ruling, Brann also granted judgment to the U.S. Department of Labor that the county is an “enterprise” under the FLSA, which was not disputed by theÃâà...
SaukValley.com
April 24, 2018
CHICAGO – Self Help Enterprises has lost certification that allows the organization to pay disabled workers less than the federal minimum wage. The certificate was revoked after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation determined that nearly 250 workers with disabilities had been exploited, it said in aÃâà...
MDJOnline.com
April 24, 2018
The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) on April 23 released a Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) providing guidance to EBSA's national and regional offices regarding proxy voting, shareholder engagement, and economically targeted investments by fiduciaries ofÃâà...
MDJOnline.com
April 24, 2018
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA); the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute's Safety, Health, and Environment Services Group; and Georgia Department of Public Health's Division of Health Protection have formed a two-year alliance to raiseÃâà...
MDJOnline.com
April 12, 2018
As part of the U.S. Department of Labor's ongoing efforts to encourage occupational licensing reform, the Department on April 12 announced $7.5 million in funds to help review and streamline occupational licensing rules. Funds will be available to states, and associations of states, to review, eliminate andÃâà...
WBOY-TV
April 12, 2018
PHILIPPI, W.Va. - The United States Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration has released a report regarding a February mine accident that claimed a man's life in Barbour County. Leonard Griffith, 52, of Valley Bend, who was an electrician at Wolf Run Mining LLC's Sentinel Mine withÃâà...
Hudson Valley 360
March 9, 2018
WASHINGTON — Columbia County had the third lowest unemployment rate in the state by the end of 2017 and Greene County had a 5.5 percent rate, according to the most recent data released by the U.S. Department of Labor. Local businesses are encouraged by the growth the Twin Counties are seeingÃâà...
OCRegister
March 9, 2018
The U.S. Department of Labor has charged Delrahim and his managers with cheating some 700 workers at a dozen of his facilities in Orange, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Ventura counties over a five-year period, failing to pay minimum wage and overtime. According to prosecutors, the workers,Ãâà...
KDRV
March 9, 2018
Department of Labor Releases February Jobs Report. US employers went on a hiring binge last month, adding 313,000 jobs, the most since July 2016, and drawing hundreds of thousands of people into the job market. Posted: Mar. 9, 2018 7:16 AM. Updated: Mar. 9, 2018 7:16 AM. Posted By: Larissa Castillo.
whnt.com
March 8, 2018
Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that wages grew at the fastest pace in eight years in January. U.S. employers added a robust 200,000 jobs during the month, and the unemployment rate hovered at 4.1 percent for the fourth consecutive month. But Target has essentially been raising theirÃâà...
Lexology
March 8, 2018
Mistakes happen. But when those mistakes result in a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, what is an employer to do? Pay twice the amount of wages owed to cover both back wages and an amount equal to liquidated damages? Hope no one notices? Well, thanks to the Wage and Hour DivisionÃâà...
WV News
March 7, 2018
WASHINGTON — Workforce West Virginia will receive over $1 million dollars from the U.S. Department of Labor, according to West Virginia's U.S. Senators. “There is no denying the harmful effects of the last Administration's regulatory policies on West Virginia's economies,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.
The Times
March 6, 2018
SHIPPINGPORT — Two companies have been fined by the U.S. Department of Labor after an accident at the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant that killed two workers in August. The accident, which happened in the early morning of Aug. 30, unfolded after contractors from a company called Enerfab performedÃâà...
Healio
March 6, 2018
The American College of Rheumatology has called on the U.S. Department of Labor to reconsider a new proposed rule that could exempt association health insurance plans from essential health benefits requirements, which the group argues could harm patients and jeopardize access to health care.
Civilrights.org
March 2, 2018
The Leadership Conference is a diverse coalition of more than 200 organizations committed to advancing civil and human rights for all those who live in the United States. As members of the Employment Task Force, we had the opportunity to meet with you in August 2017 for discussion of a range of policyÃâà...
Lawyers.com Blog (blog)
March 1, 2018
In reaction to very recent decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Benjamin v B & H Education, Inc, the United States Department of Labor has discarded its six-part test for determining whether interns and students are employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act as it pertains to for-profitÃâà...
Journal & Topics Newspapers Online
March 1, 2018
A Palatine construction company was cited by the U.S. Dept. of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after inspectors reportedly observed employees exposed to fall hazards on six local residential roofing projects between August and November 2017. Manuel Gallardo, owner ofÃâà...
The Salinas Californian
February 28, 2018
The penalized company, Future Ag Management Inc., a farm labor contractor, provided illegal and substandard housing to 22 employees during the lettuce and cauliflower harvests in Monterey County last summer, according to the press release by the U.S. Department of Labor. The penalizations willÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
February 27, 2018
A company with ties to a polygamous sect on the Utah-Arizona border changed its name and defied an order to stop using child labor in construction jobs, U.S. Department of Labor attorneys alleged Monday. The allegations, filed last September, are the latest wrinkle in a child labor case that dates to 2007.
Government Accountability Office
February 14, 2018
Pursuant to section 801(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, this is our report on a major rule promulgated by the Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration, (Labor) entitled "18-Month Extension of Transition Period and Delay of Applicability Dates; Best Interest Contract ExemptionÃâà...
Politico
February 9, 2018
As the GOP Congress scrambled last year to roll back as many Obama-era regulations as possible, one target was a Department of Labor rule on worker drug testing. The rule they rolled back wasn't exactly a liberal employee protection: In fact it gave states permission to drug test certain workers receivingÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 5, 2018
The Department of Labor's Office of the Inspector General is looking into allegations of impropriety related to a proposed rule change. By Andrew Soergel, Senior Economy Reporter. Feb. 5, 2018, at 3:40 p.m.. By Andrew Soergel, Senior Economy Reporter Feb. 5, 2018, at 3:40 p.m.. U.S. News & World Report. Internal AuditÃâà...
Eater
February 1, 2018
The Department of Labor reportedly conducted an analysis indicating that, if tip pooling was made legal again — that is, if restaurant owners were allowed ... Law Project, wrote that her team is “deeply disturbed to learn that the U.S. Department of Labor prepared but then concealed [this] economic analysis.
Artvoice
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced approximately $62 million in grants to provide employment assistance and workforce development services to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. Through these grants, the Department's Indian and NativeÃâà...
TheStranger.com
December 31, 1999
How much disgrace can the Trump administration fit into its latest disgrace? A question worth asking, especially when the disgrace in question is the department of labor's induction of President Ronald Reagan (or Trump 1.0, as we may as well start calling him) into the department's Hall of Honor. It's the firstÃâà...
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