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 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 |
By Chelsea Conaboy on May 1, 2018
EPA on the brink of ‘regulatory capture’?: By avoiding input from career employees, promoting the views of industry leaders and proposing aggressive cuts to the agency’s budget and staff, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has dramatically changed the agency, researchers with the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative have found. The EPA appears headed toward “regulatory…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, labor laws, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, wage violations |
By Jane Kay on July 24, 2014
After decades of speaking out against workplace hazards in this country and abroad, Garrett Brown didn’t quietly fade away when he retired from his high-ranking state regulatory job in California. He came back to hound his former employer. Brown released a blistering critique of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health just weeks after…
Posted in FairWarning Investigates | Tagged labor activist, labor laws, OSHA, worker safety |
By Myron Levin on May 21, 2014
A Los Angeles recycling business accused of violating federal minimum wage and overtime rules, and pressuring workers to lie to government investigators, has agreed to pay more than $74,000 in back wages and damages to 13 employees in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor. In a consent agreement filed this week in federal…
Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Alkanan, labor laws, wage theft, wage violations, Workplace |
