Boss Watch

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, October 6 A 29-year-old employee of a Florida marine construction company drowned in five feet of water after being pinned under a fallen crane in March 2023. Federal workplace safety investigators determined the company could have prevented the fatality by following required safety standards.…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, September 29 An Oklahoma construction contractor entered into a deferred prosecution agreement and agreed to pay $370,660 in criminal and civil penalties to avoid federal prosecution on one count of ignoring federal safety regulations that resulted in a worker fatality in St. Joseph in…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, September 22 WHNT reported last week on a familiar story to people that have spent any amount of time in the service industry: Struts on Pine – a restaurant in Muscle Shoals closed without notice to employees, leaving 24 workers not only without a…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, September 15 COAL CRETINS CRYING POOR From the West Virginia Gazette: Coal industry bosses owe more than $16 million in unpaid federal mine safety fines as of the end of July 2023.  “Unpaid mine safety fines are the equivalent of a rude gesture from…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, September 8 LOUISIANA THIEVES The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment requiring the operator of a New Orleans-area home healthcare agency to pay 80 workers a total of $630,000 in back wages and damages after the employer misclassified them as independent…

Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, September 1 ALABAMA KILLER Last year, Brett Savage, a 36-year-old communications technician with the Alabama Forestry Commission and a resident of Deatsville, in Elmore County, was killed instantly when the communications tower he was helping a crew remove unexpectedly fell on top of him…

We have an Alabama employer on the list this week, and so many companies stealing from their employees and putting them in illegally-dangerous workplaces that we didn’t have room for EEOC cases this week. It’s bad, folks! Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the week ending on Friday, August 25 ALABAMA MUTILATOR The Texas-based operator…