Category: Paychecks & Work
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$2.6 million goes to women an Alabama recycler refused to hire
A new primary record puts an Alabama hiring case involving a recycling plant into practical household terms. Timing, eligibility and remedy determine whether an Alabama hiring case involving a recycling plant changes a real budget. The official details of an Alabama hiring case involving a recycling plant are now clear enough to verify. The consent…
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A San Antonio bakery chain had a 13-year-old on its payroll and has paid $45,000 in back wages and penalties
A popular bakery’s labor bill now includes the wages it failed to pay and penalties for putting children to work illegally. Federal investigators found a 13-year-old employee, overnight shifts for a 15-year-old and overtime errors across three San Antonio locations. The company has paid a combined $45,000. The total combines worker money and government penalties…
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An Illinois headlight plant denied pregnant workers their lifting limits, a federal suit says
A lifting restriction can determine whether a pregnant factory employee keeps earning a paycheck or is pushed off the schedule. Federal officials say an Illinois automotive-lighting manufacturer refused such limits for a class of workers. The lawsuit is pending, and the company’s liability has not been decided. Four plants are named in the federal allegations…
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The EEOC is suing KLLM over sex discrimination against female student truck drivers
A truck-driving academy is not merely a classroom when enrollment controls access to a paid career. The federal government says KLLM used training and pay practices that treated female student drivers differently from men. The case is newly filed, so the allegations have not yet produced a judgment or settlement. The complaint reaches training conditions…
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$250,000 goes to female staff the EEOC says an Arizona senior living company failed to protect from residents
A resident’s behavior does not erase an employer’s duty to protect employees from workplace harassment. That is the principle behind a $250,000 settlement involving women who worked at an Arizona senior living community. The payment resolves a federal lawsuit, while the conduct described by the government remains an allegation rather than a trial finding. The…
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Austin car dealerships will pay $925,000 in a harassment case brought for five employees
A male sales manager reported sexual harassment. He was transferred. After that, he was terminated. That order of events is what distinguishes this case from the run of workplace matters that end quietly, and it is one of the things a federal court in Texas has now signed off on resolving. The three-year consent decree…
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$250,927 goes to more than 400 workers a staffing company denied paid sick leave
Paid sick leave costs nothing to think about and a great deal to go without. If you are paid by the hour and you have none, a fever on a Tuesday stops being a health question and turns into an arithmetic question about rent. That is the gap at the center of a District of…
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Four staffing agencies and a Newton hotel owe $875,234 for wage theft affecting about 421 workers
Temp work runs through layers. A staffing agency hires the worker, a client company gets the labor, and the person actually doing the job can end up with two businesses above them and no clear answer about which one owes what. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced citations on August 5 against four staffing…
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$200,000 goes to a nurse fired instead of reassigned to an open job
Sutter Roseville Medical Center had a decision in front of it. A staff nurse with a disability had asked her managers for an accommodation, and a lateral move into a position that was already open was one way to give her one. Federal investigators concluded the hospital would not consider any accommodation at all and…
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143 Michigan restaurant workers will receive $515,857 after investigators say overtime timecards were destroyed
Federal investigators say four Detroit-area coney island restaurants ran payroll off two sets of timecards for the same workers. One set counted the first 40 hours of the week; the other tracked everything past 40, the hours federal law prices at time and a half. That second set was regularly destroyed, investigators allege, but the…