Enforcement targets coercive unpaid labor and wage theft

A state attorney general fined an addiction-treatment program $1.15 million after participants were directed into unpaid work benefiting for-profit clients and the organization; more than $850,000 was designated for estimated wages and restitution. The case sits alongside a Sixth Circuit ruling affirming substantial damages for migrant farmworkers facing deportation threats, confinement, recruitment fees, and wage theft.