The Fundación Fondo Acceso a la Justicia Inc., a legal-assistance organization based in Guaynabo, is receiving more than $11.8 million from a Bank of America mortgage settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and six states, said Eric D. Green, independent monitor of the Aug. 2014 case.
A consent judgment has been filed in federal district court ordering a Yauco coffee grower to pay $101,484 in back wages to more than 170 year-round farm workers and seasonal coffee pickers who the company underpaid between 2011 and 2014.
Employees at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, along with representatives from different airlines and members of the airport community, celebrated their 3rd annual FOD (Foreign Object Debris) Walk with the goal of cleaning up ramps and other areas where airplanes operate.