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US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh to highlight good jobs, worker protections, responsible supply chains with labor ministers in Germany

By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2022

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh will participate in the Group of 7 Labor and Employment Ministers’ Meeting on May 24 in Wolfsburg, Germany. The G-7 is the premier forum for its democratic, industrial member countries to coordinate economic and security policies.

US Marshals arrest Virginia landscaping company owner who failed to comply with federal court orders

By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2022

News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, VA - The owner of a Hampton, Virginia, landscaping and snow removal company has been arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service for failing to comply with federal court orders.

Bay Area Compliance Laboratories Corporation: Grant of Renewal of Recognition discussed on May 20 by Labor Department

By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2022

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on May 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Labor Department publishes notice on May 20

By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2022

The US Labor Department published a three page notice on May 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Murray, Duckworth, Colleagues Call for GAO Study into the Barriers Americans with Disabilities Face Accessing Healthcare

By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2022

News Release: Dear Comptroller General Dodaro: We write to request that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct a study on barriers people with disabilities experience in accessing healthcare-including reproductive healthcare-in the United States. Even though discrimination based on disability is prohibited...

What releases are upcoming from the Labor Statistics Bureau on May 23

By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2022

There is one release scheduled to be published on May 23.

Notice published by Labor Department on May 20

By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2022

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on May 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

May 20: bills handled by Education and Labor Committee

By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2022

There was activity on one bill related to the Education and Labor Committee on May 20.

SGS North America, Inc.: Grant of Expansion of Recognition discussed on May 20 by Labor Department

By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2022

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on May 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Labor Department discusses Maritime Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (MACOSH): Notice of Meeting on May 20

By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2022

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on May 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

New notice from Mine Safety and Health Administration to be published on May 23

By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2022

There is one release scheduled to be published on May 23.

US Department of Labor releases Final Rule on changes for the 2022 Form 5500 Series Annual Return/Report

By DOL Newswire | May 21, 2022

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration , the IRS and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. today released a Federal Register Notice announcing changes to the Form 5500 Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan and Form 5500-SF Short Form Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan, and related instructions, that apply beginning with 2022 plan year reports.

Murray, Warren, Wyden, Sanders Blast Private Equity Giant KKR for Grossly Substandard Care and Unsafe Living Conditions in Group Homes for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

By DOL Newswire | May 20, 2022

News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee; Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance and Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committees; Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chair of the Senate Finance Committee; and...

Department of Labor renews multi-year initiative to provide enforcement, outreach, education for restaurant workers

By DOL Newswire | May 20, 2022

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor has renewed a multi-year nationwide initiative to help workers and increase federal compliance by food service employers, an industry where - in fiscal year 2021 - the department’s Wage and Hour Division found violations in nearly 85 percent of its restaurant investigations.

Schumer, Murray, Senate Democratic Women: Democrats Aren’t Backing Down from The Fight to Protect Abortion Rights

By DOL Newswire | May 20, 2022

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Assistant Democratic Leader Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) led a press conference with Democratic women Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), ...

Labor Department set to publish a new notice on May 23

By DOL Newswire | May 20, 2022

There are two releases scheduled to be published on May 23.

Bills addressed by Education and Labor Committee on May 19

By DOL Newswire | May 20, 2022

There was activity on five bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on May 19.

@EdLaborGOP: the Public Health Emergency is Over

By DOL Newswire | May 20, 2022

News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx and several of her Committee Republicans sent a letter to the Biden administration urging an end to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) and a transferal of vaccine purchasing, distribution, and administering of vaccines and therapies to the private market.