By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that its Employee Benefits Security Administration will reopen the public comment period on amendments to its Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program and the proposed amendment to the associated class Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2002-51.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: SCHNECKSVILLE, PA - On a Tuesday afternoon in the summer of August 2022, federal workplace safety inspectors responded to a police report that a 17-year-old worker had suffered fatal injuries after being pulled into a woodchipper at a work site near Allentown.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the new chairman of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Wednesday during remarks to Advocates for Community Health proposed a historic expansion of community health centers.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: ATLANTA, IL ‒ An Illinois grain cooperatives’ failure to make sure they followed required safety procedures contributed to how a 27-year-old worker suffered a partial amputation of his right leg when a paddle conveyor was left running when he and two other employees entered a soybean bin for cleaning.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: Rebecca Pringle, the President of NEA, and Randi Weingarten, the President of AFT, will Join Sen. Sanders on Stage
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: Following the deal reached this week with CSX, Sanders calls on remaining rail companies to take urgent action in new letter
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh joined Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health Doug Parker today to sign a memorandum that gives the Occupational Safety and Health Administration the authority to issue certifications in support of applications for U Nonimmigrant Status and T Nonimmigrant Status visas.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: AUSTIN, TX - Una investigación federal descubrió que una compañía de suministros de jardinería de Austin, donde un empleado de 17 años sufrió lesiones graves en un incidente de montacargas en junio de 2021, le permitió trabajar en ocupaciones peligrosas y prohibidas en violación de la ley federal de trabajo de menores de edad.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) at 1:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, Feb. 9th will hold a press conference with rail workers to demand companies provide them with at least seven paid sick...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
Release: Employer: Southern Visions LLP, operating as Sweet Brew Tea
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: AUSTIN, TX - A federal investigation has found an Austin landscape supply company, where a 17-year-old employee suffered serious injuries in a forklift incident in June 2021, allowed them to work in hazardous and prohibited occupations in violation of federal child labor law.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: SCHNECKSVILLE, PA - On a Tuesday afternoon in the summer of August 2022, federal workplace safety inspectors responded to a police report that a 17-year-old worker had suffered fatal injuries after being pulled into a woodchipper at a work site near Allentown.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Republican Leader Bill Cassidy, M.D., (R-LA) led 32 House Republicans and 35 Republican Senators in calling on U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to rescind the Biden administration’s radical income-driven repayment proposal, which will severely exacerbate rising college costs and excessive borrowing.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: RALEIGH, NC - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $38,891 in back wages for 55 adult employees with developmental disabilities after finding their Goldsboro non-profit employer had not renewed their federal certification to pay them subminimum wages but continued to do so.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an award of $4.25 million to continue its efforts to end forced labor by supporting a global technical assistance project by the International Labor Organization, a United Nations’ agency seeking to advance social and economic justice by setting international labor standards and promoting rights at work.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: ATLANTA, IL ‒ An Illinois grain cooperatives’ failure to make sure they followed required safety procedures contributed to how a 27-year-old worker suffered a partial amputation of his right leg when a paddle conveyor was left running when he and two other employees entered a soybean bin for cleaning.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh joined Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health Doug Parker today to sign a memorandum that gives the Occupational Safety and Health Administration the authority to issue certifications in support of applications for U Nonimmigrant Status and T Nonimmigrant Status visas.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 - In a letter signed by all the Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Maggie Hassan...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2023
There were 11 notices published by the Labor Department in week ending Feb. 4, according to the Federal Register.
