The Labor Commissioner’s Office determined that between 2014 and 2017, RDV employed more than 1,000 workers at 35 construction sites, and typically worked their crews nine hours a day without proper rest breaks or overtime.

Charlotte Pipe has had to retain a law firm in China in an attempt to recover its intellectual property. 

The lawsuit asks that the county be prohibited from implementing the program and that an individual plaintiff be awarded $500,000 or more in damages.

Employers should note that OSHA continues to operate uninterrupted during the government shutdown, having received funding from Congress last September that should take the agency through the rest of this year