Labor Rights
OSHA adds 15 percent penalty cut for immediate fixes
A July 14, 2025 policy change rewards employers who correct cited hazards on the spot, reshaping how federal safety penalties get discounted.
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Labor Rights
Labor Rights covers the rules that govern a job and what happens when they break: wage and hour enforcement, safety investigations, discrimination suits and misclassification fights. Each story is anchored to a filing, an inspection or a docket.
Wage theft, workplace safety, discrimination, misclassification and the enforcement agencies workers rely on, tracked through cases and data.
Labor Rights
Outsourcing firm to pay $250,000 in EEOC disability case
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a $250,000 settlement of its disability discrimination lawsuit against The Results Companies on April 21, 2025.
Labor Rights
Wage agency reports $259 million recovered for 177,000 workers
The Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division posted its strongest back-wage recovery in five years for fiscal 2025, even as a June policy change limits double damages in administrative cases.
Labor Rights
How to file an EEOC discrimination charge, and the deadlines
The charge is the required first step for most federal discrimination claims: what it is, the 180- and 300-day clocks, and what happens after filing.
Labor Rights
How a Wage and Hour Division investigation works
From complaint to supervised payment: what the federal wage investigator does, what it can recover, and what a worker gives up by choosing the administrative route.