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The Labor Department recovered $1.73 million in back overtime pay for 1,666 workers at a contractor on Ford's electric vehicle and battery campus in Tennessee after finding bonuses were excluded from pay calculations.
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An NLRB judge ruled that Dawn Trucking's owner, Henry Burey, is personally liable for $330,000+ in backpay owed to six fired drivers, after finding he siphoned company funds for personal use once the union case was filed.
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A federal judge sided with the company that fired a Ford plant worker for refusing a drug test without a union representative, ruling that the union itself waived his rights by not objecting.
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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.