Peak Inn, Adair’s Saloon owner, Joe Morales cited for wage, recordkeeping violations DALLAS – Bartenders at two Dallas-area restaurants who depend on good tips in return for great service will recoup $197,902 in earnings after federal investigators found the establishments’ owner and operator forced them to share tips with non-tipped employees illegally.The recovery follows an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division that discovered The Peak Inn LLC and Adair’s Saloon Inc. operated an illegal tip pool when the employers shared tips earned by 20 bartenders with the restaurants’ cooks. The division found the employer violated federal minimum…
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The WFP’s Executive Director Cindy McCain said the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), which is managed by the UN’s food agency, enabled humanitarians to respond quickly to crises in the “deep field.” WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain checks out the devastation wrought by an El Niño-intensified drought in Zambia. Cindy McCain and Franklyn Frimpong, the UNHAS chief of aviation, have been discussing the importance of the life-saving service. Cindy McCain: UNHAS makes WFP and other agencies work. UNHAS gives us the ability to reach the deep field and parts of the world that are absolutely impossible to get to otherwise,…
Released on Wednesday by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), the report explained the hardships civilians faced, including physical and long-term socioeconomic harm. It also emphasised the human rights impact of Russia’s renewed large-scale attacks on critical energy infrastructure in March, the ground offensive in the Kharkiv region in May and other developments in occupied and Government-controlled areas of Ukraine. Relentless attacks “With May having the highest monthly number of civilian casualties in nearly a year, fighting this spring took a horrific toll on civilians, particularly in Kharkiv region and city,” said Danielle Bell, head of the…
Akila and Maria, one Trinidadian and the other a Venezuelan migrant. Both are women with a common goal: to train and educate themselves in order to provide their families with economic stability.Akila Gonzalez-Parris and Maria Requena are part of a group of women and men who participated in the Flourish Empowering Resilience and Integration programme carried out by the International Organization for Migration through the Women-Owned Media & Education Network (WOMEN).Akila is a 29-year-old Trinidadian woman and mother of a 4-year-old girl.Before the workshop, she helped her husband in his upholstery business.She believes the programme is an opportunity for her…
To support the sector’s continued decarbonization, the Manifesto includes priorities on heavy-duty vehicle CO₂ standards, electricity grid capacity and the harmonization of urban vehicle access restrictions across the EU, which are becoming an increasing market barrier. The shift to zero-emission vehicles is central to the EU’s climate goals. At the same time, there is no silver bullet for transport decarbonization. Combustion technologies based on low-carbon and carbon-neutral fuels are an alternative, and equally suitable from a climate perspective. The immense diversity of vehicle mission profiles, including special profiles such as for moving chemical substances or tool-trucks (e.g. trucks with incorporated…
It’s just over a year since Health Minister Stephen Donnelly announced that there would be public funding for assisted human reproduction (AHR) treatment in Ireland.This was a great leap forward given that the technique was pioneered successfully by Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Robert Edwards and co-workers Patrick Steptoe and Jean Purdy 48 years ago in Oldham, England.Their breakthrough led to the birth of Louise Brown on July 25, 1978, who became known as the world’s first “test tube baby” although the conception actually took place in a Petri dish. Since then, it is estimated that some 12m babies have been born…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission today signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen competition by better coordinating information used by antitrust agencies to evaluate potential impacts of mergers and acquisitions on labor markets.“Workers are the backbone of our economy, and it’s critical that the impact on workers and the labor market are given due consideration when analyzing mergers and acquisitions,” said Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su. “The Department of Labor is committed to providing information and data to strengthen the…
Special Representative for International Labor Affairs (SRILA) Kelly Fay Rodríguez will travel to Berlin, Germany September 1-5 to promote President Biden’s Memorandum on Advancing Workers’ Rights, Empowerment, and High Labor Standards Globally. In Germany, SRILA Fay Rodríguez will meet with government officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Labor, German labor leaders, and private sector leaders to discuss transatlantic cooperation on workforce development and our shared commitment to ensuring high labor standards in global supply chains. SRILA Fay Rodríguez also will lead a session on the U.S. National Action Plan for Responsible Business Conduct at the Government…
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WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su issued the following statement to mark Labor Day 2024: “Each Labor Day, our nation honors the hardworking people whose dedication and sacrifice helped build this great nation. Workers who – with the support of organized labor – fought for fair wages and benefits, safer working conditions, and the dignity and respect every worker deserves. “The Biden-Harris administration knows America’s workers are our country’s backbone and the core that empowers the successes our nation has achieved. These are the people who fuel our economy, strengthen our communities and help ensure our security. “With the historic investments made since…