Each month, the United States Department of Labor (US DOL or DOL) issue violations and settles cases covering the federal laws they are responsible for enforcing. These federal laws include:
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Davis-Bacon and Related Acts
- McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act
- Executive Order 11246
- Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA)
- Section 1188 — Admission of Temporary H-2A Workers
- H-2B Program
- Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Below is a list of violations and settlements issued by the DOL from January 1 to 15, 2025.
FLSA Violations and Settlements
- Arizona: Phoenix drywall, painting contractor must pay more than $7.4M in wages, damages after deliberately denying overtime to over 1,400 employees
- Illinois: US Department of Labor recovers $60K in back wages, damages for 10 Chicago sanitation workers denied overtime pay
- Louisiana: Department of Labor recovers $844K in back wages, damages for 158 workers illegally deprived of overtime wages by Louisiana home care providers
- Louisiana: US Department of Labor recovers $446K in back wages, damages from 2 Louisiana home care providers for 88 misclassified workers
- Louisiana: US Department of Labor recovers $319K in back wages for 49 workers misclassified as independent contractors by Louisiana landscaping company
- Massachusetts: US Department of Labor secures consent judgment recovering $63K in back wages, liquidated damages from Subway franchisee for workers at 6 Massachusetts locations
- Oklahoma: Department of Labor obtains judgment to recover $66K in wages, damages for 13 workers denied tips, overtime wages by Oklahoma restaurant operator
- Tennessee: Department of Labor secures agreement from cleaning contractor to pay penalties, take steps to prevent dangerous child labor employment
OSHA Violations and Settlements
- Alabama: US Department of Labor finds GE appliance maker willfully exposed workers to machine safety hazards, causing Decatur supervisor’s fatal injuries
- Florida: US Department of Labor finds storm pipe cleaning, maintenance employer could have prevented 24-year-old worker’s fatality at Port St. Lucie worksite
- Florida: US Department of Labor cites Florida fertilizer manufacturer for safety failures following worker fatality
- Massachusetts: Judge finds scaffold installation company exposed employees to falls by using unsafe scaffold at high-rise Massachusetts work site
- Massachusetts: US Department of Labor finds Wilmington contractor’s fall protection failures contributed to worker’s fatal fall at Cutler Majestic Theater worksite
- Pennsylvania: US Department of Labor orders Pennsylvania tourist railroad operator to reinstate, compensate worker fired for raising safety concerns
