By DOL Newswire | May 11, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA─ The U.S. Department of Labor will hold an online listening session with Southeast employees, employers and other stakeholders on May 17, 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 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today renewed partnerships with the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to strengthen collaboration with their U.S. embassies and consulates, and to provide information about laws governing workplace safety and health, wages and work hours, and other employment issues individuals from these countries face while working in the U.S.
By DOL Newswire | May 11, 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, released the following statement laying out a path forward after Senate Republicans blocked the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) in a 49-51 vote.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: BALTIMORE - A federal judge has ordered four interrelated Upper Marlboro providers of assisted living, adult day care and transportation services to pay $364,604 - $182,302 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages - to 132 workers after the U.S. Department of Labor found numerous pay practice infractions in a Wage and Hour Division investigation.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: DENVER - Following a 90-day outreach period, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Regional Emphasis Program for Noise Induced Hearing Loss will move into the enforcement phase beginning May 17, 2022. The emphasis program targets manufacturing industries with high rates of occupational hearing loss in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, SC - A Charleston restaurant shortchanged 92 workers by forcing them to participate in an illegal tip pool that included management and other typically non-tipped employees, which led to federal minimum wage and overtime violations, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has revealed.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, during a hearing she chaired, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urged her colleagues to support the nomination of Kalpana Kotagal to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), highlighting her long record defending workers’ rights-and working to create fairer workplaces and equal opportunity for all workers.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Official merchandise for artists including the Rolling Stones, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Willie Nelson or Ariana Grande may have been made by workers at a San Diego silk-screening contractor who denied them the wages they earned for their work.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - As the nation observes National Nurses Week, U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh met with a group of nursing professionals from around the nation on May 6, 2022, and discussed their bedside experiences with patients during the pandemic, healthcare industry staffing challenges and the importance of quality jobs in retaining and recruiting workers.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal judge has upheld an assessment by the U.S. Department of Labor of $1,964,450 in civil money penalties against Paragon Contractors Corp. and its owner Brian Jessop.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA─ The U.S. Department of Labor will hold an online listening session with employees, employers and other stakeholders in the Northeast on May 13, 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 10, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on May 9.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 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, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, and Congressman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA-03), Chair of the House Education...
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: Employer: Angels on Earth PPEC Inc.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Republican Leader Richard Burr (R-NC) sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona demanding accountability on the recently reported privacy violations of prospective college students across the country.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: GRASSY BUTTE, ND - Federal workplace safety investigators determined that an oil company’s failure to take adequate safety precautions contributed to a drilling site explosion near Grassy Butte on Nov. 4, 2021, that permanently disabled one worker and left two others with serious injuries.
By DOL Newswire | May 9, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in filing an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs in two landmark cases currently before the Supreme Court of the United States. The consolidated cases, Students...
By DOL Newswire | May 9, 2022
News Release: GRASSY BUTTE, ND - Federal workplace safety investigators determined that an oil company’s failure to take adequate safety precautions contributed to a drilling site explosion near Grassy Butte on Nov. 4, 2021, that permanently disabled one worker and left two others with serious injuries.
By DOL Newswire | May 9, 2022
News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (NC-05) cosigned Congressman Chris Jacobs’ (NY-27) letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on a proposed rule change to the Charter Schools Program that would limit school choice access for families. The letter was cosigned by 21 other Members of Congress.
By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2022
“CONFIRMATION“ was published in the Senate section on page S2341 on May 4
