Articles Tagged with ''Department of Labor''

U.S. Department of Labor investigators are seeking to interview employees at a Hattiesburg, Mo., poultry plant.

Company fails to follow lockout/tagout procedures and provide adequate machine guarding.

Inquiry reveals 322 employees were denied their full earned wages.

The proposed rule by the Department of Labor offers six criteria to guide an assessment of the economic realities of a working relationship between an employer and an independent contractor.

The department's Wage and Hour Division recovered $134,532 in wages for 45 workers and assessed $122,610 in civil money penalties.

U.S. Department of Labor seeks nationwide court injunction to stop Packers Sanitation Services’ ‘oppressive child labor’ violations at processing facilities.

DOL says standard increases protections for 84 million private sector workers.