Three Michigan women are accused of running a 19-month pandemic fraud scheme that drained more than $450,000.

Three Metro Detroit women are facing federal charges in connection with a conspiracy that investigators said pumped more than $450,000 in suspected fraudulent pandemic benefits out of Michigan’s unemployment system.

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Three metro Detroit women are accused in a conspiracy that federal investigators said pumped more than $450,000 in suspected fraudulent pandemic benefits out of Michigan’s unemployment system.

The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations adopted under previous presidential administrations.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s sudden suspension of its Job Corps program has left hundreds of young people in Detroit without housing and career training, forcing many to scramble for alternatives.

The Trump administrated has canceled millions of dollars in international grants that a Department of Labor division administered to combat child labor and slave labor around the world.

A coalition of labor unions filed a lawsuit Monday asking a federal court to stop Elon Musk’s team from accessing private data at the Education Department, the Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management.

One of the nation’s largest meat processors has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations of child labor violations at a plant in Minnesota.

The U.S. Department of Labor said Kyriakos ‘Ken’ Vlahadamis has a history of defying overtime regulations and shortchanging employee wages at restaurants in Clarkston, Dearborn, Livonia and Sterling Heights.

The U.S. Department of Labor wants a federal judge to prevent Hyundai and two other Alabama companies from what the government contends is the illegal employment of children.

An Oakland County fast food restaurant is being fined by the U.S. Department of Labor for violating child labor laws.

Our A4 team took a look back at all of the articles we’ve written this year and found the 10 that readers spent the most time with.

A federal court has ordered the owner of a Detroit-area senior home care services company to be imprisoned until she complies with a federal subpoena in an investigation over unpaid wages for employees.

Two popular Ann Arbor restaurants are being sued by the U.S. Department of Labor for failing to pay more than $120,000 in overtime wages to more than a dozen workers.

The Department of Labor says one of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs at 13 meatpacking plants across the country.

The U.S. Department of Labor launched an investigation into the Stellantis plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan, after someone reported that an employee expressed breast milk on the factory floor when they were denied access to lactation rooms.

The U.S. Department of Labor is publishing a new proposal on how workers should be classified saying that thousands of people have been incorrectly labeled as contractors rather than employees, potentially curtailing access to benefits and protections they rightfully deserve.

The Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office has signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.

DETROT – Michigan is expanding hours and staff to better handle demand for unemployment during the coronavirus outbreak. The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) is adding staff and hours to better serve an unprecedented increase in customers filing unemployment claims as a result of COVID-19. Customers in the call center and online chat queues before closing time will have their calls or chats resolved that day. All Eligible Workers Will Receive Benefits: The UIA assures every eligible worker in Michigan who applies for unemployment benefits will receive them. Last names beginning with letters M-Z: file claims on Sundays, Tuesdays, or Thursdays.