December 21, 2023
A awnings company based in Long Island and its owner will pay $252,370 in back wages and damages to nearly three dozen workers who were denied overtime wages over a three-year period, after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation. A …
October 25, 2023
A Collegeville, Pennsylvania restaurant and its owners must pay $268,660 in back wages, liquidated damages and punitive damages to satisfy a consent judgment obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor after an investigation into the employers’ illegal pay practices. According …
June 12, 2023
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell’s office has reached a settlement with Dave & Buster’s, which includes $275,000 for workers, to resolve meal break and child labor violations. Dave & Buster’s operates three locations in Massachusetts in Braintree, Natick and …
March 23, 2023
A federal investigation into why a 17-year-old worker – who fell 24 feet from the roof of a New Castle, Pennsylvania, home improvement store in October 2022 – was doing work that violated child labor laws led to a wider …
October 12, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor reported that it has obtained a default judgment to recover $703,609 in back wages and liquidated damages for 38 employees denied overtime pay by a Chesapeake, Virginia home healthcare company and its owner who officials …
May 11, 2022
Major League Baseball said it’s settling a complaint by minor league players about “poverty” wages, avoiding a trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake that could have tarnished the league’s reputation. Lawyers for both sides in the long-running …
April 28, 2022
Two New Hampshire restaurants in Derry and Londonderry and their owner have agreed to pay $890,169 to 63 employees to resolve numerous violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation and litigation. The total …
December 29, 2019
Time is running out for employers to familiarize themselves with new federal rules on overtime pay. Starting January 1, the threshold for who is entitled to overtime pay — and who is not — changes. It’s the first change since …
October 23, 2017
One of the largest producers of Georgia’s famous Vidalia onions must pay $1.4 million in damages and unpaid overtime owed to hundreds of workers, a federal judge ruled. A U.S. District Court judge found that Bland Farms Production and Packing …
January 13, 2017
With President Barack Obama’s federal overtime-pay overhaul likely to die either in court or under Republican Donald Trump, some legislators are trying to replicate it at the state level. Democrats in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland, Wisconsin and Michigan said they …