An Illinois business owner was taken into custody by a U.S. Marshall Oct. 27 after he failed to to correct serious trenching hazards and pay the OSHA penalties that had been assessed against him.
The vast majority of federal contractors play by the rules, but every year tens of thousands of American workers are denied overtime wages, not hired or paid fairly because of their gender or age, or have their health and safety put at risk by corporations contracting with the federal government that cut corners, according to a White House press statement.
