By DOL Newswire | Mar 14, 2023
The Senate section of the Congressional Record published “MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE” on March 9.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 12, 2023
There were 10 notices published by the Labor Department in week ending March 4, according to the Federal Register.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on the February 2023 Employment Situation Report
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FL - Federal workplace safety inspectors examining how thousands of pounds of shifting cargo fatally crushed a 28-year-old worker in a ship’s cargo hold in Panama City found his employer failed to follow required safety standards, including allowing unsafe operation of cargo cranes and not providing training.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: ROSELAND, NE - A 34-year-old worker’s attempt to clean out a Roseland grain silo, in preparation for fall harvest, turned tragic on Sept. 12, 2022, when corn engulfed and asphyxiated him.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on March 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today issued a final rule adopting as final the procedures and time frames for handling employee retaliation complaints under the Taxpayer First Act, enacted July 1, 2019.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: ORLANDO, FL - It’s likely that the decisions Juan Felipe Gomez Toro made one day in February 2022 turned out to be more costly to his Lake Mary roofing contracting company than he might have imagined.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the launch of a series of online dialogues to gather ideas and other public input on how health policies can support workers’ mental health most effectively.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on March 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2023
News Release: ROSELAND, NE - A 34-year-old worker's attempt to clean out a Roseland grain silo, in preparation for fall harvest, turned tragic on Sept. 12, 2022, when corn engulfed and asphyxiated him.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: CINCINNATI - Alerted by the concerns of the West Chester Township Fire Department in Ohio, workplace safety inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor discovered exit routes, doors and fire extinguishers blocked at a Dollar General store on Princeton Glendale Road in Cincinnati, the same kinds of dangers that have contributed to more than $15 million in proposed federal penalties for the discount retail chain since 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: ATLANTA - Professionals from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration are participating in the 2023 Atlanta Construction Ready Career Expo - geared toward students from Georgia’s middle, high and tech schools - to highlight the importance of on-the-job safety to the industry’s next generation of workers.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: GLENDALE, AZ - The U.S. Department of Labor is currently distributing more than $700,000 in back wages and damages to 470 employees, recovered from a Glendale plastering company following an investigation and lawsuit related to the employer’s pay practices.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Biden-Harris administration today released President Biden’s budget for fiscal year 2024. The budget details a blueprint to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out, lower costs for families, protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security, and reduce the deficit by ensuring the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share - all while ensuring no one making less than $400,000 per year pays more in taxes.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: ALBANY, NY - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $166,832 for 53 employees of a Little Falls roofing contractor to resolve overtime and recordkeeping violations found by investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 9 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) on Thursday introduced legislation that would cap the list price of insulin at no more than $20 per vial, substantially reducing the cost of the lifesaving drug for the more than 7 million people who use insulin across the United States and the 1.3 million Americans who were forced to ration insulin last year.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Trish Lollo, President of St. Louis Children’s Hospital, to request information about the kinds of medical interventions provided by the hospital’s Transgender Center. This follows troubling accounts of a former employee, who revealed that medical personnel do not always defer to the wishes of a parent who opposes life-altering medical procedures.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding President Biden's FY 2024 budget proposal...
