By DOL Newswire | May 20, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the following statement on the Senate’s unanimous passage of the Access to Baby Formula Act, legislation to address the infant formula shortage and ensure that...
By DOL Newswire | May 20, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON -The U.S. Department of Labor and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will participate in the trans-Atlantic tripartite Trade and Labor Dialogue, which was announced at the U.S.-European Union Trade and Technology Council Ministerial meeting in Paris on May 15-16, 2022. The dialogue will join trade unions, businesses and governments in the U.S. and Europe to discuss trade and labor issues.
By DOL Newswire | May 20, 2022
There was activity on 10 bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on May 19.
By DOL Newswire | May 20, 2022
Release: Employer: Open Heart Senior Home Care LLC
By DOL Newswire | May 20, 2022
News Release: Employer name: Commodity Sales Co. Investigation site: 517 S. Clarence St. Los Angeles, CA 90033 Date: October 2018 - October 2021 Investigation findings: U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found the Los Angeles slaughterhouse and packing company terminated an employee ...
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: Dear Mr. President: The United States is in the middle of an infant formula shortage crisis. After two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents and caregivers are exhausted. The last thing they need is to worry about finding safe infant formula to feed their babies-yet that is exactly the situation many...
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: DALLAS ─ The U.S. Department of Labor will hold an online listening session for Southwest employees and their stakeholders on May 25, 2022, on possible revisions to the regulations that enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage and overtime exemptions for executive, administrative and professional employees.
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement today requested that the Mexican government conduct a review at the Panasonic Automotive Systems electronic parts facility in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, in response to a petition filed under the USMCA alleging that plant workers there have been denied the rights of free association and collective bargaining.
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on May 18.
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) joined twelve of her Senate colleagues in sending letters to SafeGraph and Placer.ai, two data brokers, condemning the companies for collecting and selling the cellphone-based location data of people who visit abortion clinics and risking the...
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: Today, Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at an Education and Labor Committee markup on bills ranging from school construction to onerous wage and hour penalties...
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a hearing on strengthening cybersecurity in the health care and education sectors to ensure that the technologies people increasingly rely on to meet with their...
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement in support of H.R. 7791, the bipartisan Access to Baby Formula Act, which was introduced by Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) and will help prevent future devastating shortages...
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Committee passed legislation today regarding unnecessary and expensive school construction projects, predatory wage and hour penalties, a package of bills that will create duplicative programs, and two bipartisan bills on mental health and substance abuse...
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a funding opportunity of $2 million for up to eight grants to help women who earn low wages to learn about and access their employment rights and benefits.
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: BRECKENRIDGE, CO - One worker suffered fatal injuries and two co-workers barely escaped similar fates when they were rescued from a trench that collapsed as they installed sewer pipes in a Breckenridge neighborhood on Nov. 16, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh visited George Washington University’s Hospital and Behavior Health Department on May 17, 2022, to meet with students, faculty and hospital residents to discuss ways to strengthen professional pathways to mental health care and to hear about workers’ experience with behavioral health service delivery and staff support amid the pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, took to the Senate floor to launch Senate Democrats’ new effort to highlight the non-stop efforts by Republicans to roll back reproductive rights-on everything from...
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Education and Labor Committee on May 18.
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement celebrating today’s House passage of H.R. 7791, the Access to Baby Formula Act, bipartisan legislation to ensure the rules for WIC participants and manufacturers are clear in the event of another crisis or supply chain disruption and plans are prepared to alleviate such a situation immediately...
