That's a scenario Texas construction worker Oscar Torres knows all too well. In the last four years, the Texas Workforce Commission has ruled in his favor in four separate wage theft cases, but he still hasn't seen a dime. In his most recent claim, Torres said his employer — a small ...
For at least 30 years, Texas-based labor broker Henry's Turkey Service placed developmentally disabled men in jobs at West Liberty Foods, a West Liberty, Iowa, turkey processing plant. Henry's collected the men's wages, along with their Social Security disability payments. In return, the men...
On November 15, 2024, a district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a significant, albeit somewhat unsurprising,opinioninTexas v. Department of Labor, vacating the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”)2024 Final Overtime Rule(“Final Rule”), whic...
State of Texas v. DOL On May 22, 2024, a group of national business associations filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against the DOL challenging the final rule.[1] This lawsuit was later consolidated with a complaint filed in the same cou...
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Sure it will….Texas can’t even keep the lights on. Seneca’s Cliff Oct 21, 2021 at 8:47 am Good luck with the automation, you need chips and very skilled install and repair techs for that. polecat Oct 21, 2021 at 3:32 pm ...
Texas v. United States Department of Labor Last week, in a long-awaited decision, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the 2024 Rule issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), which aimed to increase the salary threshold for the executive, administrati...
Since the minimum wage is rarely raised and is eroded by inflation, not to mention the out and out wage theft practiced by such as Walmart, you might think we would be in a capitalist utopia of low wage driven growth and employment. Doesn’t seem to happen, why not?