back wages

Defunct Hawaiian cargo airline reimburses workers for unpaid wages

Transair, a Honolulu-based cargo airline shut down by the Federal Aviation Administration for poor safety practices following the 2021 crash at sea of one of its freighters, has returned more than $450,000 in back pay to employees as part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor.

The federal agency alleged this week that Transair had shortchanged 250 employees of their full pay and benefits while fulfilling a $113 million U.S. Postal Service contract to move mail among the Hawaiian...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/defunct-hawaiian-cargo-airline-reimburses-workers-for-unpaid-wages

The Light Load: With ‘wake-up calls’ like this, who needs Ambien?

Maybe a reader smarter than I (one whose attempts at math aren’t a path-smoother to mental health counseling) can point out anything in the following debacle that makes it less dumb-as-a-sack-of-ostriches than it appears.

To wit:

A customs warehouse in San Diego employed 16 Mexican nationals as merchandise checkers. It paid them as little as $3.38 an hour and no overtime even when they worked up to 51 hours per week, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

The U.S. District Court for the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-light-load-a-snoozefest-of-a-wake-up-call