Could This Be Your Company – Olive Garden Restaurant Agrees to Pay Back Wages
All companys should have systems, policies and procedures to in place to actually track employee wages. Darden Restaurants Inc., doing business as the Olive Garden in Mesquite, today has agreed to pay $25,570 in back wages after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found that 140 current and former servers were not properly paid as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act. The company also has been assessed $30,800 in civil money penalties to be paid to the government. If you are interested in learning more about what Olive Garden Restaurant should have done link to the article below.
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Brown Palace To Pay $105K Settlement To Single Mom
DENVER — The historic Brown Palace Hotel & Spa has agreed to settle a discrimination lawsuit by paying $105,000 to woman who said she was passed over for promotion because she was a single mother of two young children.
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Aurora Companies Are Not Free of Violations – Ask Albertsons
One of our local business is facing fines for bias comments. AURORA – Employees say it was a workplace filled with racial slurs and anti-immigrant statements. As part of the settlement of an employment discrimination lawsuit, the Albertsons LLC grocery chain will pay out nearly $9 million.
You can read the full article below.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=128967&catid=339
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Arvada Restaurant Owner Wins ‘Worst Boss Of 2009′
Paul Martinez, co-owner and manager of the family-run Alamos Verdes restaurant, beat out the Oakland Raiders coach accused of breaking an assistant’s jaw, and a Louisiana water department superintendent captured on tape using “hundreds of obscenities” against employees and ordering a supervisor to physically attack a worker.
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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21966233/detail.html
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DHS Sues Michigan Company to Recover Over $41,000 In I-9 Violations
DHS has filed a lawsuit against a Detroit-area automobile plastics company to recover a $41,360 fine which was assessed following an I-9 audit.
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http://everifyandi9news.com/?p=488
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Colorado Was Hit With The Second Largest Fine In State History By OSHA
How will workplace safety effect your business? The second largest workplace safety fine in Colorado’s history was issued against Temple Grain Elevators after 17-year-old Cody Rigsby was killed while working in grain elevator on May 29th. The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) http://www.osha.gov/ and the Wage and Hour Division issued over $1.6 million in fines on Monday, November 23, 2009.
Link to the full article below.
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Workplace Harassment At Cheesecake Factory Will Cost The Company $345,000 Over Allegations
What new is cooking at one of the country’s premier restaurants. The payment settles a lawsuit filed in 2008 by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which claimed that Cheesecake Factory knew about and tolerated repeated sexual assaults against the men by a group of other men who worked in the kitchen.
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/11/10/20091110abrk-cheesecakesettle.html
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A Lawsuit Filed Against Lawry’s Restaurant Will Cost The Company $1 million To Settle
A Million dollar lawsuit against Lawry’s Restaurant will cost the company more than money. The lawsuit, filed in 2006 by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said that a company as large as Pasadena-based Lawry’s Restaurants Inc. should have known that the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited such a policy.
Link to the full article below.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lawrys3-2009nov03,0,5744106.story
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The Department of Labor Settles Another Overtime Case
It happened again, another restaurant company is settling a overtime claim. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s wage and hour division into the Great Wall Buffet found that 30 employees — cooks, kitchen workers, dish washers and waiters — were paid a fixed salary of $780 to $2,500 a month depending on their job. That averaged out to an hourly rate of $2.93 to $8.74.
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http://www.tri-cityherald.com/business/story/761212.html
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Home-builder Fined For Overtime Violations
The Corona resident is among 85 residential construction workers from California, Nevada and Arizona who will share $242,301 in unpaid wages after settling a federal lawsuit last month against a major home-builder, Boise, Idaho-based Building Materials Holding Corp.
The suit, brought with the help of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, alleged that the company and its subsidiaries systematically failed to pay employees for hours worked, did not provide overtime or breaks and kept workers off the clock while they traveled between job sites and waited for materials to arrive.
Link to the full article below.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-me-construction13-2009oct13,0,7344863.story
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