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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Northern District Courts Orders Marc’s to Pay $426,000 In Overtime
Overtime violation are still affecting companies. The United States Northern District of Ohio Court in Cleveland on Tuesday ruled that Marc’s, along with its Connecticut offshoot, Xpect Discounts, must pay workers a combined $426,504 in unpaid overtime wages.
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http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2009/12/02/news/nh1772745.txt
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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.
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U.S. District Judge Sentences a Flowood Businessman
Businessman sentenced for immigration violations. Former owner Gin Hsing Chen, also known as David Chen, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William H. Barbour to 12 months in prison and one year supervised release. He was also fined $72,000 and was required to forfeit $100,000 in lieu of a home he owned in Flowood that was used to house some of the undocumented employees of Stix.
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Immigration Crackdown: DHS Launches Thousands of H-1B Inspections, I-9 Audits
To accomplish the inspections, DHS has established the Fraud Detection and National Security Division (FDNS). With nearly 600 officers and more than $90 million in funding (arising from the $500 fraud-detection fees for each initial H-1B or L-1 petition), the FDNS will conduct the 25,000 inspections, up from just over 5,000 in the previous fiscal year. The FDNS already has begun to dispatch officers to work sites throughout the United States.
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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.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lawrys3-2009nov03,0,5744106.story
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The Memphis Buffet Is Being Investigated By The Department of Labor
The Fair Labor Standards Act catches another employer. In 2007, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee awarded this judgment after determining that the restaurants’ owners, Min Fang Yang and Huo Guang Huang, violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by failing to pay the federal minimum wage, failing to pay overtime compensation for hours worked over 40 in a workweek and failing to maintain accurate records of hours worked by employees at the two restaurants.
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http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2009/10/19/daily36.html#
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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.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-me-construction13-2009oct13,0,7344863.story
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