Department of #Labor seeking #workers owed #backwages, damages after recovery of $3.8M from owner of 5 defunct #LaPuente, City of Industry #poultry companies

https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20240412

Department of Labor seeking workers owed back wages, damages after recovery of $3.8M from owner of 5 defunct La Puente, City of Industry poultry companies

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A Mexican grocery store in northeast Houston was forced to pay employees more than $460,000 in back wages and damages after a federal investigation found it failed to pay overtime rates to hourly workers who had logged more than 40 in a week.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/business/2024/02/02/476359/houstons-guanajuato-supermarket-failed-to-pay-overtime-wages-to-100-plus-employees-labor-department-finds/

#Business #Houston #Local #News #BackWages #FairLaborStandardsAct #GuanajuatoSupermarket #OvertimePay #USDepartmentOfLabor #YSLeeCompany

Houston’s Guanajuato Supermarket failed to pay overtime wages to 100-plus employees, labor department finds

The Mexican grocery store in northeast Houston, which includes a bakery, meat market and restaurant, was forced to pay more than $460,000 in back wages and damages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

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#Federalcourt orders #labor contractor to pay more than $1M in #backwages, penalties after investigations find repeated violations of #farmworkers#rights
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20230919-0
Federal court orders labor contractor to pay more than $1M in back wages, penalties after investigations find repeated violations of farmworkers’ rights

Department of Labor obtains judgment ordering California H-2A agricultural employer to pay $1,033,509.

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Content Moderators for Facebook win vital case against employers for maltreatment

Sama AI a company who moderates content for Facebook has been embroiled in a 4 year case against it’s employees after they were accused of myriad law violations. Last month Nairobi’s employment court ruled in the employees favour.

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