MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Michigan, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: * * * Housing Commission misclassified employees as independent contractors * * * A federal investigation has recovered $98,316 in back wages and liquidated damages for 32 security guards who the Muskegon Heights Housing Commission failed to pay overtime wages because the Michigan employer misclassified them as independent contractors. The U.S. Department of Labor's  more

DETROIT, Michigan, Dec. 2 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on Dec. 1, 2023: * * * Federal Agency Charges Home Health Care Company With Firing Therapist with Seizure Disorder Because She Could Not Drive * * * Providers of home health care services Alternate Solutions Health Network, LLC (ASHN), and its affiliated entity Beaumont ASHN, LLC, violated federal law by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a disabled employee and subsequent  more

DETROIT, Michigan, Nov. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: * * * Rosie Guthrie, Genesis Homecare Services' owner, defies contempt order, fails to cooperate * * * A federal court has ordered the owner of a Michigan senior home care services company be imprisoned if she continues to ignore a March 2023 federal court order to provide U.S. Department of Labor investigators with time and pay records, despite being in contempt of court sin  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56862) involving UP Health Systems Marquette, Michigan: * * * Rep Org: UP Health Systems Marquette Licensee: UP Health Systems Marquette Region: 3 City: Marquette State: MI License #: 21-05432-04 Agreement: N NRC Notified By: Bill Pyle HQ OPS Officer: Ian Howard Notification Date: 11/17/2023 Notification Time: 15:44 [ET] Event Date: 11/17/2023 Event Time: 11:00 [EST] Last Update D  more

ABINGDON, Virginia, Nov. 30 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, Christopher R. Kavanaugh, issued the following news release on Nov. 29, 2023: A pair of out-of-state men, one from Tennessee and another from Michigan, who conspired with others to traffic heroin into Lee County, Virginia, were sentenced yesterday in federal court. David Edward Farmer, 57, of Strawberry Plains, Tennessee, previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute and possession with   more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Dec. 1 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, Will Thompson, issued the following news release on Nov. 30, 2023: Perry Johnson Jr., 29, of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Johnson admitted to his role in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) that operated in the Charleston area. According to court documents and statements made in court, on or about November 28, 2022, Johnson conducted phone  more