Department of #Labor seeking #workers owed #backwages, damages after recovery of $3.8M from owner of 5 defunct #LaPuente, City of Industry #poultry companies

https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20240412

A Mexican grocery store in northeast Houston was forced to pay employees more than $460,000 in back wages and damages after a federal investigation found it failed to pay overtime rates to hourly workers who had logged more than 40 in a week.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/business/2024/02/02/476359/houstons-guanajuato-supermarket-failed-to-pay-overtime-wages-to-100-plus-employees-labor-department-finds/

#Business #Houston #Local #News #BackWages #FairLaborStandardsAct #GuanajuatoSupermarket #OvertimePay #USDepartmentOfLabor #YSLeeCompany

#Federalcourt orders #labor contractor to pay more than $1M in #backwages, penalties after investigations find repeated violations of #farmworkers’ #rights
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20230919-0

https://impactpolicies.org/news/320/content-moderators-for-facebook-win-vital-case-against-employers-for-maltreatment

#ContentModerators for #Facebook win vital case against #employers for maltreatment

Facebook moderator fired by #contractor for organising against #HumanTrafficking, deceptive hiring, #ForcedLabour, #UnionBusting. Moderators staged #Sit-In. Court finds Facebook is true #employer, orders #BackWages.

#Meta #capitalism #union #UnionStrong #strike #IndustrialAction #Kenya