Employment News
sues Kansas restaurants, owner to recover $771K in minimum wage ... - US Department of Labor
KANSAS CITY, KS – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit against the owner of two Kansas restaurants who allegedly denied minimum and overtime wages to kitchen staff, servers, hosts and food r...
Read moreDepartment of Labor sues Kansas restaurants to recover $771K in minimum wage losses - KCTV 5
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit against the owner of two Kansas restaurants who allegedly denied minimum and overtime wages to employees after some worked as...
Read moreLots of new developments on the whistleblower front - Federal News Network
The omnibus appropriations bill enacted last year, contains something called the Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Improvement Act. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin next guest on this podcast, ca...
Read moreState report shows wage gaps persist in Oregon government - Oregon Public Broadcasting
In 2017, Oregon passed a law that was aimed at reducing wage disparities for employees performing the same work. Historically, women and people of color have earned lower wages than their white or ...
Read moreAdvocates Oppose Cleveland Port Authority's Possible Repeal of Prevailing Wage Mandate - Cleveland Scene
A proposed change to the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority's prevailing wage policy will hurt workers and their families, says the Prevailing Wage Coalition, a group of organizations dedica...
Read morefinds Hidalgo County wrongly denied full bonuses to workers who ... - US Department of Labor
Employer name: Hidalgo County Investigation site: Hidalgo County Head Start Program 1901 W. State Hwy 107 Edinburg, TX 78504 Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Div...
Read moreFederal court order aids Department of Labor recovery of $265K in ... - US Department of Labor
Type of Action: Fair Labor Standards Act consent order and judgment Company/Owners: GEM Interiors Inc., Milford, Ohio Background: On March 13, 2023, Judge Michael R. Barrett in the U.S. District Co...
Read moreWhistleblower Advocates See Parallels to Enron in Silicon Valley Bank Collapse - Whistleblowers Protection Blog
According to whistleblower advocates, the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is reminiscent of the collapse of Enron in 2002. Given the role Enron whistleblower Sherron Watkins played in...
Read moreIntroducing The Duane Morris Wage & Hour Class And Collective ... - Duane Morris
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Jennifer A. Riley, and Gregory Tsonis Duane Morris Takeaways: Complex wage & hour litigation has long been a focus of the plaintiffs’ class action bar. The relatively...
Read moreFalse Claims
Farage dubbed ‘master of the conspiracy theory’ after false RAF Fairford claims - The Independent
Nigel Farage faced criticism after falsely claiming that five men arrested on suspicion of terror offences near RAF Fairford were Iranian agents who arrived via small boats. Counter Terrorism Po...