Dollar General will improve safety protocols in stores and pay $12 million in penalties in a sweeping settlement with the Department of Labor over the discount chain's long history of putting low-wage employees in dangerous working conditions.The Labor Department said Dollar General agreed to hire new safety managers, provide safety and health training to workers and develop a safety and health committee.
'These changes help give peace of mind to thousands of workers, knowing that they are not risking their safety in their workplaces and that they will come home healthy at the end of each day,' Douglas Parker, the head of the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health division, said in a statement.This settlement resolves existing contested inspections as well as open federal inspections involving alleged violations.