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Federal investigators found a San Antonio bakery chain employed a 13 year old and let a 15 year old work overnight, violating child labor law. The company paid $45,000 in penalties and back wages.
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The Labor Department has awarded $5.6 million to Florida to retrain thousands of workers displaced by Spirit Airlines' abrupt May shutdown, as the carrier's bankruptcy liquidation continues to ripple through the state's aviation economy.
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The NLRB ruled Whole Foods did not break federal labor law by barring employees from wearing Black Lives Matter messaging on the job, finding the display was not tied closely enough to workplace conditions to earn legal protection.
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The NLRB entered default judgment against Menorah Campus, operator of the closed Weinberg Campus nursing home near Buffalo, after it missed contract obligations and failed to answer the labor complaint on time.
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The NLRB entered default judgment against Bles Healthcare's Rosemont facility in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, after it failed to answer a labor complaint, finding it broke bargaining duties owed to its SEIU represented staff.
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The National Labor Relations Board dismissed a complaint accusing ArtCenter College of Design of failing to bargain with its faculty union over a management restructuring, finding the college gave timely notice and a real chance to negotiate.
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The NLRB denied review of a tied decertification election at a Wisconsin Frito-Lay warehouse, upholding the Teamsters' loss despite a dissent arguing a barred employee and a promised raise should have voided the result.
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The NLRB reversed a regional director and ruled that warehouse employees at a rural Kansas electric cooperative share enough in common with union field crews to hold their own election on whether to join the existing bargaining unit.
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The NLRB ruled that a Detroit wastewater firm illegally fired a union steward over a texted GIF and a medical leave worker for striking, while clearing the company on a separate claim that it threatened grievance filers during contract talks.
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Federal regulators fined a Baileyville, Maine pulp mill nearly $800,000 after a January gas release killed two young employees and a March chemical fire followed, citing years of recurring safety lapses at the plant.
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A federal court ordered the owner of four Detroit area Leo's Coney Island franchises to pay $515,857 to 143 workers after federal regulators alleged he shredded overtime timecards, years after agreeing to a similar 2018 court order.
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Federal investigators found NY Gyro, a nine location Minnesota restaurant chain, failed to track hours and pay overtime, resulting in $613,037 in back wages owed to 46 workers.