Composting Business Lodges Latest Attack on DOL Law Judge System

The legality of a system for adjudicating violations at the Labor Department is again being challenged in federal court by an employer hiring workers on seasonal visas.

An investigation into alleged wage and hour violations by an Owensboro, Ky. composting business should be halted because the DOL administrative law judge system is unconstitutional, a complaint filed this week in the Eastern District of Kentucky argues.

Labor Department administrators alleged that O’Bryan Composting violated requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and regulations of the H-2A seasonal agricultural visa program by charging workers rent for housing, not reimbursing workers for transportation ...