Boss Watch

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, July 11, and Friday, July 18 No Enforcement Actions As we’ve relayed to readers before, the meat of this newsletter has always consisted of press releases from OSHA, the WHD, and the EEOC, documenting enforcement actions against law breaking employers. For yet another week, there…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, July 4, and Friday, July 11 Florida Endangerers The U.S. Department of Labor has cited an Orlando target-missile manufacturer for exposing workers to fire, burn, and inhalation hazards, after a December 2024 fire at its facility, hospitalizing two employees and injuring others.  Investigators with the…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, June 27, and Friday, July 4 Georgia Discriminators 1st Franklin Financial Corporation, a consumer lender with more than 370 branches throughout the southeastern United States, violated federal law by discriminating against a class of employees when it denied them reasonable accommodations and then fired them…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, June 13, and Friday, June 20 Florida Killers The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited two event production companies following an inspection concerning an October 2024 employee fatality. Stage FX Inc. and James Thomas Productions LLC were cited with serious violations…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, June 6, and Friday, June 13 Georgia Discriminators Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Inc. (CHOA), a pediatric health care system based in Atlanta, will pay $50,000 and undertake remedial measures to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, May 30, and Friday, June 6 Mississippi Discriminators Ground Zero Biloxi LLC, which operates a blues club located in Biloxi, Mississippi, violated federal law by subjecting an assistant manager to sexual harassment by one of its co-owners and firing the worker for complaining about the…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, May 23, and Friday, May 30 Alabama Child Sex Abuser WAFF reports:  It’s worth noting that, despite everyone thinking that fast food is just work for children, and despite everyone thinking that it’s appropriate for children to work in restaurants, the restaurant industry has the…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, May 16, and Friday, May 23 Kentucky Thieves The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $207,470 in back wages and damages for 157 workers after finding a Michigan-based electrical services contractor failed to pay proper overtime rates to workers at job sites in…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, May 9, and Friday, May 16 Alabama Discriminators Two women are suing the city of Huntsville, Alabama for discrimination – both are represented by Huntsville Attorney Richard Newton.  Allison Ellis, a former police dispatcher, claims she faced discrimination based on her gender and religion. She…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, April 25, and Friday, May 9 Sorry for not getting this out last week – I got super caught up with work. So this is a two week round-up! Also, just want to put this note in the newsletter in case you didn’t hear it…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, April 18, and Friday, April 25 Alabama Law Violators From Hannah Denham at AL(dot)com: A law firm is investigating an Alabama poultry processing company for laying off 165 people without adequate notice to employees or the state. Chicago-based Strauss Borelli PLLC, a class action law…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, April 11, and Friday, April 18 Alabama Endangerers From Patrick Darrington at AL(dot)com: A jury awarded a $10 million verdict to a woman who was severely injured while she was a teenager working at a Jefferson County business in 2019. The jury settled in favor…