Labor violations include unsafe working conditions, unfair wages, and exploitation of workers, leading to physical and psychological harm. These violations can cause severe injuries, chronic health issues, and even death to the workers. Furthermore, by undermining fair labor practices, these violations contribute to economic disparities, perpetuating cycles of poverty and social instability.
Labor Rights / Worker Classification EvilCorporations.com — Investigative Labor Desk TL;DR Minnesota passed a 2024 law tightening worker classification rules in construction, requiring written contracts, invoices, and proof that subcontractors carry real business risk. J&M Consulting and two industry trade…
TL;DR A Vermont worker named Thomas Cole won a retaliation lawsuit against his employer, Foxmar Inc., and the jury originally awarded him $3,215,943 (enough to cover a year of groceries for roughly 800 American families), including $3 million in punitive…
Investigative Report • Occupational Safety • Corporate Accountability Breathless and Buried How 3M and fellow equipment giants sold defective respirators to coal miners, watched them develop black lung, then used the law’s clock to bury the lawsuits before a jury…
TL;DR Macy’s locked out union engineers on December 7, 2020, three days after the union ended its three-month strike and unconditionally offered to return to work — a federal court just upheld the finding that this was illegal. The union…
Worker Rights • Corporate Power • Racial Justice Home Depot vs. Black Lives Matter A $40 billion corporation fired a worker for writing three letters on an apron, and then convinced a federal court that was reasonable. Filed: November 6,…
Workers’ Rights / Labor Law Worked to the Bone, Paid for 40 Hours: How One Call Claims and TWIA Stripped Overtime from Hurricane Steve Harvey Workers EvilCorporations.com • Case No. 23-13205, 11th Cir. (Oct. 16, 2025) • 26 min read…
TL;DR Starbucks fired Hannah Whitbeck, a shift supervisor at their Ann Arbor, Michigan store, after she spent months openly organizing her coworkers into a union — and a federal court just confirmed that firing was illegal. Starbucks’s stated reason for…
TL;DR Bar Manager Randy Charlins at Logan Inn in New Hope, Pennsylvania helped himself to tip pool money that was supposed to go entirely to hourly bartenders and servers. Bartender Graham Lundeen filed a federal lawsuit under the Fair Labor…
TL;DR Eight workers at a Houston karaoke restaurant called Hungry Like the Wolf went on strike in September 2022 over unpaid extra duties and broken wage promises; the owner fired all of them two weeks later. The company, Hiran Management,…
TL;DR AllService Plumbing, a small Louisiana company, illegally fired three workers who supported a union drive in 2009, and an NLRB judge ordered them reinstated with full backpay plus compounding daily interest. The company never challenged the original ruling, the…