The Department of Labor charged Wal-Mart with violating the General Duty Clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, which states that employers cannot lawfully expose workers to known hazards.
Sholom Rubashkin, the four others and the company originally faced more than 9,000 child labor charges.
They face federal forced labor charges and have been held without bail.
On Wednesday, the union filed an unfair labor charge against the Liberty with the National Labor Relations Board.
The service was pricier than I had expected, with a $220 minimum labor charge per service call.
Prosecutors dropped thousands of child labor charges Tuesday against two defendants from Agriprocessors Inc., an Iowa slaughterhouse, and allowed the company to plead guilty to amended charges.
He said the labor charges against the Boathouse began only after Mr. Poll won the Tavern license, "and they go up after the Tavern negotiations broke down".
Handy owners, however, can avoid buying steeply marked-up fluid from dealers and refill on their own at much less expense and without labor charges.
The child labor charges rankle in Brazil, especially since President Clinton lumped Brazil in with Pakistan and Guatemala when he criticized the use of child labor in a December speech.
Government investigators subsequently found that Digital had also converted costs for some computer parts, shipping and warehousing into labor charges, billed travel time as direct costs and charged a higher billing rate for some work than the contract permitted, officials said.
"While we may never know how much was stolen from the M.T.A.," Mr. Morgenthau said, "the investigation revealed that one plumbing contractor alone generated approximately $9.3 million in fraudulent labor charges, inflated invoices for materials, and cash-generating schemes to renovate his house, purchase jewelry, furniture and stock, and evade taxes".
