From the Labor Department file
What is on record for The Kroger Co.
- Name on the record
- The Kroger Co.
- Also recorded as
- Kroger-Columbus Bakery, State Avenue Grocery Products, Kroger Pharmacy
- Location on the record
- Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, Ohio
- County
- Hamilton County
- Industry
- Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores; General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers
- Cases
- 16 closed, 10 with a violation found, 6 with none
- Back wages agreed to pay
- $7,878,293
- Workers due back wages
- 19,417
- Civil money penalties assessed
- $18,480
- Violations recorded
- 28,057
- First and latest case
- 2005 to 2023
- Repeat or willful flags
- None on the record
Every investigation
Every case on the record, newest first
| Investigation | Laws | Violations | Back wages | Workers | Penalties |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2022 to June 2023 | FLSA, minimum wage, overtime | 27,992 | $7,873,305 | 19,362 | $0 |
| August 2012 to December 2013 | FMLA | 1 | $1,267 | 1 | $0 |
| March 2008 to March 2010 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| January 2010 to March 2010 | FMLA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| June 2007 to August 2009 | child labor | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| July 2007 to June 2009 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| July 2007 to June 2009 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| June 2007 to June 2009 | child labor | 2 | $0 | 0 | $5,280 |
| May 2007 to May 2009 | child labor | 1 | $0 | 0 | $2,640 |
| May 2007 to May 2009 | child labor | 1 | $0 | 0 | $2,640 |
| May 2007 to May 2009 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| March 2007 to April 2009 | child labor | 3 | $0 | 0 | $7,920 |
| February 2007 to February 2009 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| January 2007 to January 2009 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| July 2008 to August 2008 | FMLA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| February 1993 to February 2005 | FLSA, overtime | 54 | $3,721 | 54 | $0 |
Investigation dates are the findings period the Department recorded, newest first. A zero is a zero in the file: a case can find a violation and agree no back wages.
By law
Laws involved and what each case found
- Fair Labor Standards Act: 2 cases, $7,877,026 in back wages
- FLSA minimum wage: 1 case, $5,380,656 in back wages
- FLSA overtime: 2 cases, $2,496,370 in back wages
- Family and Medical Leave Act: 3 cases, $1,267 in back wages
- FLSA child labor: 5 cases, $0 in back wages, $18,480 in penalties
Plain words
What this record means and what it does not
The Wage and Hour Division enforces the federal minimum wage, overtime, child labor, family leave and the wage rules on federal contracts and visa programs. Each row above is one investigation the Division closed; of the 16 on this record, 10 ended with a violation found and 6 with none.
Back wages agreed is the amount the employer agreed to pay the workers the Division found were owed, computed at the federal rates: a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour and overtime after 40 hours in a week. Where Ohio has a higher state or local minimum, the same hours would come to more under state law, and that part is not in this file.
Civil money penalties are amounts the Division assessed against the employer, separate from back wages; the file records the assessment, not what was finally paid.
This record is federal only. It does not include claims filed with the state labor office, private lawsuits or settlements, so an employer absent from it is not an employer with a clean record, and an employer on it has not been found guilty of anything by a court. Names are written as the Department recorded them, so one business can appear under more than one legal name, and a franchise or branch can sit under its own.
If you are owed wages
Where to file a wage claim in Ohio
In Ohio a wage claim can go to the state: Wage & Hour, Ohio Department of Commerce takes claims under state law, which often covers more than the federal rules. The federal route is the Division's page on how to file a complaint with the Wage and Hour Division with what to send and where. The Division also keeps a search of back wages owed to workers it collected and could not deliver.
Around this employer
Nearby employers and related pages
Other employers on the record in Cincinnati, by back wages:
| Employer | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling Medical Associates, Inc. | 14 | $1,618,639 | 506 |
| Champion Windows and Doors | 2 | $696,826 | 692 |
| Meda Care Transportation, Inc. | 3 | $610,025 | 174 |
| FirstGroup, Inc. | 1 | $420,429 | 189 |
| General Security Services Corporation | 8 | $406,943 | 473 |
| Halo MGT Productions LLC | 1 | $384,150 | 298 |
| T&T Enterprises of Ohio, Inc. | 17 | $297,842 | 204 |
| Panel-Fab, Inc. | 1 | $249,826 | 151 |
| DECO, Inc. | 2 | $237,769 | 115 |
| Health Carousel, LLC | 2 | $198,400 | 95 |
The same name on the record in other states:
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Sources
Where this record comes from
The record comes from the Wage and Hour Division compliance action data published by the U.S. Department of Labor, every concluded investigation since fiscal 2005, snapshot dated April 22, 2026 and read for this page on November 5, 2026. The Wage and Hour Division is the office that made the findings. Figures are printed as the file carries them, a zero included; an investigation with no end date is shown by its start; the county is the one the Census Bureau puts the employer's ZIP code in.
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