By Amy Martyn on December 11, 2019
Run-ins with job safety regulators are routine for Dollar Tree, the huge discount retail chain. A FairWarning investigation found that more than 150 company stores have been cited for safety violations since December 2015, despite a settlement with OSHA in which Dollar Tree agreed to pay $825,000 in penalties and clean up its act.
Posted in FairWarning Investigates, Recent Stories | Tagged Government accountability, labor laws, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on October 10, 2019
Despite aggressive enforcement of wage laws by the California Labor Commissioner’s office, some workers wait years for back pay, if they get any at all.
Posted in FairWarning Investigates, Recent Stories | Tagged California, Government accountability, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Julie Su, Labor Commissioner, Labor Department, labor laws, Lilia Garcia-Brower, Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund, NELP, Tia Koonse, wage theft, wage violations, wages, Workplace, XPO |
By Eli Wolfe on July 17, 2019
The firm, PriorityWorkforce, has run afoul of safety regulators, and now it’s trying to find jobs for the homeless.
Posted in FairWarning Investigates, Recent Stories | Tagged Government accountability, labor laws, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on April 11, 2019
887 workers were killed in falls in 2017, the highest number reported by the government in nearly 30 years.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Government accountability, Labor Department, labor laws, OSHA, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on January 31, 2019
Agency won’t require employers to routinely report detailed internal records of worker injuries or illnesses.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Government accountability, Labor Department, labor laws, OSHA, Workplace Safety and Health |
A New Wrinkle in Wage Battles
By Eli Wolfe on January 10, 2019
For years, truck drivers hauling billions of dollars of clothing, appliances and other consumer goods from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have complained about rampant wage law violations by the trucking firms that hire them. The alleged abuses include failing to pay minimum wages and overtime. But even when truckers’ claims have…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Labor Department, labor laws, wage theft, wage violations, wages, Workplace |
By Eli Wolfe on November 28, 2018
A fateful decision by Congress more than 40 years ago gives the sites unique immunity from safety oversight, even as hundreds of employees have been killed or seriously injured.
Posted in FairWarning Investigates, Recent Stories | Tagged Labor Department, labor laws, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on August 20, 2018
For the second time in recent months, the U.S. Department of Labor has extracted penalties from a California farm business blamed for the deadly crash of a vehicle transporting migrant field workers to their jobs.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Food Supply, Government accountability, labor laws, wage theft, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on July 18, 2018
For the third time in six years, a branch of one of the world’s largest cargo-handling companies has been accused by workplace safety authorities of a willful violation linked to a worker’s death.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged labor laws, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on June 28, 2018
It’s no secret that the waning power of American unions has contributed to stagnant wages. But a new study suggests that this trend hasn’t affected just worker income. It also may have cost thousands of lives. The portion of the U.S. work force covered by unions has fallen for decades, and the labor movement suffered…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Labor Department, labor laws, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
