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Three Maine sports bars operating under the Cowbell name agreed to pay $83,211 in back wages and penalties after a federal investigation found overtime and child labor violations affecting 47 workers.
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The Labor Department recovered $512 million in fraudulent CARES Act unemployment funds tied to Maryland, bringing total recoveries from the state past $1 billion as scrutiny of pandemic era benefit fraud intensifies nationwide.
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The Labor Department has warned all 53 governors that it will withhold administrative funds, a first, unless states address unemployment insurance fraud and improper payments, pointing to large losses in California, New York, and Illinois.
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The NLRB ruled SWCA Environmental Consultants unlawfully refused to bargain with Teamsters Local 222, rejecting the firm's bid to relitigate a 2024 union certification it had already lost.
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The NLRB ruled that the U.S. Postal Service violated federal labor law by maintaining an overbroad petition ban and removing a worker's safety flyers, ordering policy revisions and nationwide notice distribution across more than 30,000 facilities.
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The NLRB ordered a Brooklyn painting company to reinstate nine workers and pay back wages after finding it unlawfully cut hours and terminated employees in retaliation for a 2021 union organizing drive.
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An NLRB regional director ruled that two power utility superintendents at Alaska Power and Telephone are employees, not supervisors, expanding a newly certified union's bargaining unit on Prince of Wales Island.
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A federal court ordered four Rancho Chico restaurants in Washington state to pay $750,000 to 42 workers after the owners agreed to settle wage violations and subsequently defaulted on that agreement.
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The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is making $10.5 million in grant funding available to states for mandatory miner safety training, with applications due August 10, 2026.
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The NLRB ruled that Parking Systems Plus illegally refused to hire more than 30 unionized valet workers at Stony Brook University Hospital, ordered reinstatement and backpay, and found the company a legal successor bound to bargain with Local 1102.
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The NLRB ruled against Starbucks in two June 2026 decisions covering Seattle and Portland stores, finding the company unlawfully interrogated striking employees and unlawfully disciplined union supporters.
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The NLRB ruled two successive owners of a Parsippany, NJ Fairfield Inn violated federal labor law by targeting pro-union workers, ordering reinstatement, back pay, and mandatory bargaining.