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Former Employee Alleges Human Trafficking, Forced Labor Against Rockport Business
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Tonight, we begin a special report about a former employee of a Rockport business, who has filed a civil lawsuit in federal court, accusing the Rockport business owner of human trafficking, forced labor, and peonage.
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The former employee's attorney calls what his client experienced from the owner 'modern day slavery.'
According to the lawsuit, Treadway's journey to Texas began in 2008, when she met her second cousin, Sopheak Otero.
Paralegal Didn't Qualify For Overtime, Fla. Law Firm Tells Jury - Law360
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Companies are contracting out more jobs—that's not great for workers | Ars Technica
Until the 1980s, big companies in America tended to take a paternalistic attitude toward their workforce. Many corporate CEOs took pride in taking care of everyone who worked at their corporate campuses. Business leaders loved to tell stories about someone working their way up from the mailroom to a C-suite office.
But this began to change in the 1980s. Wall Street investors demanded that companies focus more on maximizing returns for shareholders. An emerging corporate orthodoxy held that a company should focus on its "core competence"—the one or two functions that truly sets it apart from other companies—while contracting out other functions to third parties.
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Pennsylvania on track to expand overtime pay eligibility
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf's administration is on the brink of making Pennsylvania one of a handful of states to expand eligibility for overtime pay beyond federal thresholds, winning a final vote Friday from a state regulatory board that agreed an increase was badly overdue.
The Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted 3-2 to approve a regulation that Wolf, a Democrat, first proposed two years ago amid a repeated failure to persuade the Republican-controlled Legislature to raise Pennsylvania's minimum wage above the federal baseline.
Oil Field Workers Recover Back Wages From Mission Company – 710am KURV
Nearly 4 dozen employees of a Mission oil field services company have finally been paid the wages they were owed following a federal Department of Labor investigation.
Millions of taxpayer dollars saved in Ohio due to mild winter
— This year’s mild winter, with below-average snowfall and above-average temperatures, has resulted in Ohio and local municipalities saving millions of dollars, according to a report by the Dayton Daily News.
Ohio has spent nearly $38 million less this year compared to last due to the higher than average temperatures, Ohio Department of Transportation spokesperson Matt Bruning told the newspaper.
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The savings to taxpayers are a combination of a reduction salt expenses and overtime pay to workers covering shifts needed to keep roads safe.
Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP, File Lawsuit Against UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc.
The lawsuit alleges the package delivery company UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. violated the California Labor Code by denying employees pay for all time worked, as well as allegedly requiring them to work during what was supposed to be off-duty meal breaks.
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PAGA is a mechanism by which the State of California itself can enforce state labor laws through the employee suing under the PAGA who do so as the proxy or agent of the state's labor law enforcement agencies. An action to recover civil penalties under PAGA is fundamentally a law enforcement action designed to protect the public and not to benefit private parties.
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