How companies rip off poor employees — and get away with it

By ALEXIA FERNÁNDEZ CAMPBELL and JOE YERARDIMay 4, 2021 GMT

Already battered by long shifts and high infection rates, essential workers struggling through the pandemic face another hazard of hard times: employers who steal their wages.

Vermont asked to review thousands of unemployment claims

By LISA RATHKEApril 29, 2021 GMT

The U.S. Department of Labor has directed Vermont to review the eligibility of thousands of Vermonters who received unemployment benefits over the last 13 months after the state deactivated some eligibility criteria to speed payments during the pandemic...

Vidalia onion farmer ordered to pay $1.4M in overtime suit

By RUSS BYNUMOctober 19, 2017 GMT

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — One of the largest producers of Georgia's famous Vidalia onions must pay $1.4 million in damages and unpaid overtime owed to hundreds of workers, a federal judge ruled...

US regulators accuse Google of underpaying female workers

April 8, 2017 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Government investigators looking into how Google pays its employees have accused the tech giant of shortchanging women doing similar work to men...

Crash by crash, a tally of recent migrant transport deaths

By The Associated PressDecember 22, 2016 GMT

Here are details of recent traffic accidents involving migrant farmworkers:

— Jan. 9, 2015 — Four farmworkers died when their van struck a semitrailer in Fresno County, California...

Why so many fatal crashes for migrant workers? Some answers

By The Associated PressDecember 22, 2016 GMT

Following two 1963 crashes that resulted in the deaths of 59 migrant farmworkers, a member of Congress declared that the "plight of the migrant laborer in this country is an inexcusable and cancerous sore in the body politic...