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News Tipoffs - Michigan Editors Newsletter for Sunday April 07, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Department of Labor Finds Two Employees Worked for Free to Pay for Hotel Lodging, Michigan Operator Denied Them and Other Workers Full Wages
IONIA, Michigan, April 6 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Office of the Solicitor issued the following news release: * * * District court requires forgiveness of hotel bill, recovers $110K in back wages, damages * * * The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered a total of $110,000 in back wages and liquidated damages for six employees of an Ionia hotel, including two who worked there for more than 40 hours per week for nearly 10 months without pay. The couple thought they were working in excha  more

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Urban Versus Lake Impacts on Heat Stress and Its Disparities in a Shoreline City
WASHINGTON, April 6 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following abstract of a journal article: * * * Abstract Shoreline cities are influenced by both urban-scale processes and land-water interactions, with consequences on heat exposure and its disparities. Heat exposure studies over these cities have focused on air and skin temperature, even though moisture advection from water bodies can also modulate heat stress. Here, using an ensem  more