recovered over $4.5 million in back wages and liquidated damages from an employer who misclassified its home care worker employees as independent contractors and failed to pay them the required overtime premium.recovered over $5.8 million in back wages for miners by petitioning a bankruptcy court under the hot goods provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act to prohibit their employer from shipping coal through interstate commerce until the wages had been paid.The Court held that the employer owes at least $7.2 million in back wages and liquidated damages to its workers.
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obtained a jury verdict for unpaid wages against a landscaping company that claimed its work was covered by the agricultural exemption to the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.The Secretary was awarded compensatory and punitive damages on behalf of the three employees. persuaded two separate Philadelphia juries that employers unlawfully fired three employees in violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act’s anti-retaliation provision.Sofia & Gicelle, Inc., d/b/a Fast Eddies, Sport, & Billiards recovered over $570,000 in back wages and liquidated damages following a three-day bench trial against a restaurant that failed to properly compensate its servers, bartenders, and kitchen workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act.obtained, following a week-long bench trial, a decision ordering $6.5 million to be restored to the employee stock ownership plan of a packaging equipment and conveying systems services company arising out of ERISA violations.obtained a settlement from a pipeline construction management company resulting in $3.7 million in overtime back wages and liquidated damages being paid to 299 pipeline safety inspectors.relentlessly pursued, through over a decade of district court litigation, a former trustee who violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) by wrongfully diverting funds from hundreds of employee benefit plans the litigation resulted in a recovery of more than $42 million for the benefit plans.district court litigation in recent years, in both jury and bench trials and in negotiated settlements. We have had extraordinary success in U.S. We also regularly advise DOL agencies on various non-litigation facets of their work. We are primarily a trial litigation office, and our attorneys frequently appear in federal district court and before administrative tribunals – often to vindicate the rights of our Nation’s most vulnerable workers. Recommending to United States Attorneys’ Offices the prosecution of persons who violate the criminal provisions of the many labor laws we enforce.Defending the federal Black Lung Trust Fund to ensure that resources are provided only to qualifying coal miners suffering from Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis and.Providing pre-referral assistance and litigating before the Department of Labor Office of Administrative Law Judges to hold federal contractors responsible for complying with the legal requirements to take affirmative action and not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.Vindicating the rights of workers to health and pension benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).Suing on behalf of workers who have been retaliated against in violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act.Assisting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration with its investigations of unsafe working conditions, and defending citations and proposed penalties before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.Litigating in federal district court to recover unpaid wages that are owed to workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act.The Philadelphia Regional Solicitor’s Office advises and represents Department of Labor agencies that enforce many of the laws Congress enacted to protect our Nation’s workers. We employ 33 attorneys and 10 support staff, including those working at our Associate Regional Solicitor's Office in Arlington, Virginia. Department of Labor in the following states: The Philadelphia Regional Solicitor's Office is responsible for most civil trial litigation and legal support for the U.S.
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