Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, November 25 Papa John’s Pizza will pay $175,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced last week. According to the EEOC’s suit, in early 2020, Michael Barnes applied…
Author: Jacob Morrison
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Last Week in Southern Labor: 11/10 – 11/17
Here’s what workers in the Southern U.S. and her Colonies were up to from November 10 – November 17: The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 60 filed a unit clarification petition regarding the 500 worker bargaining unit it represents at Big State Electric in San Antonio, TX. I’m not exactly sure what clarification is…
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BOSS WATCH: 11/10 – 11/17
Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, November 17 Federal investigators have recovered $532,842 in back wages and liquidated damages from a Montgomery home healthcare business that misclassified 67 employees as independent contractors, and incurred overtime wage violations as a result. U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found…
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Last Week in Southern Labor: 11/4 – 11/10
Here’s what workers in the Southern U.S. and her Colonies were up to from November 4 – November 10: 200 Nurses at Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin in Austin, TX filed for a union election with National Nurses United. Workers likely led or pushed by their employer, and represented by the National Right to Work Foundation,…
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BOSS WATCH: 11/3 – 11/10
Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, November 10 The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $11.4 million in back wages and liquidated damages for more than 1,000 employees of an East Coast restaurant chain after a series of investigations and litigation by the department. The recovery is related to a…
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Last Week in Southern Labor: 10/27 – 11/4
Here’s what workers in the Southern U.S. and her Colonies were up to from October 27 – November 4: 1223 workers at Manqual’s Office Cleaning Service in Guaynabo, PR filed for a union election with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1996 1840 more maintenance workers, these with Xpert’s in San Juan, PA, also filed…
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BOSS WATCH: 10/27 – 11/3
Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, November 3 The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found Allandale Lawn & Landscape Inc., violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by failing to pay 35 workers time and one-half the regular rate of pay for hours over 40 in a workweek.…
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Last Week in Southern Labor: 10/20 – 10/27
Here’s what workers in the Southern U.S. and her Colonies were up to from October 20-27: The employer filed for a union election after a majority of the 21 workers at Starbucks in Atlanta, GA showed support for unionization with Starbucks Workers United 6 workers at Lincare Inc in Wheeling, WV filed for a union election…
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BOSS WATCH: 10/20 – 10/27
Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, October 27 Less than six months after an investigation found three Kentucky fast-food franchisees employing more than 300 children outside of federally allowed hours, the U.S. Department of Labor has discovered another Louisville restaurant enterprise violating federal child labor laws, this time with 55…
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BOSS WATCH: 10/13 – 10/20
Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, October 20 The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal consent judgment that requires the operator of a Hebron, Kentucky warehouse and distribution center to stop employing children illegally and to not violate federal child labor laws in the future. The action addressed…
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Last Week in Southern Labor: 10/13 – 10/20
Here’s what workers in the Southern U.S. and the Colonies were up to from October 13-20: 41 workers at Republic Services in Calhoun, GA filed for a union election with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 728 19 workers at the Oklahoma Policy Institute in Tulsa, OK filed for a union election with the United Food…
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BOSS WATCH: 10/6 – 10/13
Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, October 13 Three federal workplace safety and health investigations that followed the April 2023 death of a worker at a Tulsa manufacturing facility found the company exposed employees to struck-by hazards and identified 36 violations, including 25 serious safety violations of U.S. Department of…