The owners of a private security company in California are facing criminal charges for a $1.6 million workers’ compensation fraud scheme. Luis Burgos and Sohan Singh, owners of B&R Private Security LLC, have been charged for underreporting employee payroll by more than $1.6 million to fraudulently lower their workers’ compensation insurance premiums. An investigation conducted […]
Four employees of a McDonald’s franchise who were fired after reporting COVID-19 concerns have been reinstated to their jobs. They will receive more than $113,000 in lost wages and interest. The California Labor Commissioner ordered the franchisee to reinstate the workers and pay them $113,241 in lost wages, interest and retaliation penalties. Concerns over re-used […]
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is reaching out to employers, teens and parents in the Southeast in an effort to protect teen workers as the summer hiring surge approaches. Southeast employers were assessed more than $2.8 million in penalties from federal child labor law violations from 2020 to 2022, according to the DOL. Further, […]
The owner of a Minnesota construction company was charged with one count of workers’ compensation insurance fraud for failing to report a worker’s injury. Nelson Israel Lopez Giron, owner of Giron Construction LLC, is accused of committing almost $20,000 of workers’ compensation insurance fraud by lying about the injury and misrepresenting his company’s payroll to […]
A construction worker who was injured when a ladder collapsed under him was entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law claim, according to a New York appeals court. The Appellate Division, First Department found that Andres Melendez should have received partial summary judgment because his failure to ask a co-worker to hold the ladder […]
A teen worker was injured when he became entangled in the gears of a powered wood processing machine at an Ohio lathe mill, leading to a child labor law fine of more than $22,000. Walnut Creek Lumber employed the 15-year-old worker as a sawmill operator, which is a violation of the child labor provisions of […]
An employer who failed in using the unpreventable employee misconduct defense to prevent an OSHA citation has petitioned the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to review the requirements of that defense. The employer wants the appeals court to broadly apply that defense because it claims an administrative law judge with the Occupational Safety and […]
An injured worker who fell down stairs while moving a machine won his New York Labor Law case because his employer failed to provide a safety device for moving the equipment. The New York Appellate Division, First Department found that the employer violated the Labor Law when it failed to provide a safe means of […]
A Texas luxury car dealership was ordered to pay $15,000 to a whistleblower who was fired in 2020 after raising COVID-19 safety concerns. The whistleblower was fired when they warned co-workers that another employee had tested positive for COVID-19. OSHA obtained a consent judgment on March 23 in the U.S. District Court for the Western […]
