By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2022
Release: WHO: U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - To assist workers in obtaining new opportunities in rural communities where residents once relied on energy industry jobs, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of $34.2 million in funding in Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities Initiative demonstration grants.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2022
This bill is sponsored by Rep. Bruce Westerman.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on April 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A workplace safety investigation following a worker’s fatal crushing injuries at a St. Louis recycling facility on Oct. 26, 2021, alleges the company failed to erect guards or barriers to prevent workers from falling into a paper baler and de-energize the conveyor and baler while the worker cleared a jam.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2022
News Release: ROMEOVILLE, IL - Twenty times in the past five years, federal workplace safety investigators have cited a food manufacturer for exposing workers to amputation and other serious hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2022
News Release: EDWARDSVILLE, IL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a Hazard Alert Letter to Amazon, requiring the online retailer to review its severe weather emergency procedures after six contractors were fatally injured and another severely injured when a tornado struck Amazon’s Edwardsville warehouse on Dec. 10, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 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 fight back against Republicans’ latest attempt to undermine patients’ ability to get birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of nearly $90.4 million in YouthBuild grants to prepare young adults not enrolled in school or participating in the labor market for jobs in construction and other in-demand industries through apprenticeship and other career pathways, especially jobs that support clean energy technologies.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2022
This bill is sponsored by Rep. Antonio Delgado.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A workplace safety investigation following a worker’s fatal crushing injuries at a St. Louis recycling facility on Oct. 26, 2021, alleges the company failed to erect guards or barriers to prevent workers from falling into a paper baler and de-energize the conveyor and baler while the worker cleared a jam.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on April 26.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - Sanitation workers loading and driving waste trucks in rural Southeast Texas communities were paid a straight daily rate, even though they often worked more than 40 hours per week for a Jefferson City, Missouri-based company.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2022
News Release: ROMEOVILLE, IL - Twenty times in the past five years, federal workplace safety investigators have cited a food manufacturer for exposing workers to amputation and other serious hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 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, chaired a hearing with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials on reauthorizing the FDA user fee programs. During the hearing, Senator Murray reiterated her...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Tina Smith (D-MN), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) reintroduced the Information Needed for Financial Options Risk Mitigation (INFORM) Act of 2022, which would require pension...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2022
News Release: BOISE, ID - A federal investigation has determined that Professional Security Consultants Inc. - a Los Angeles-based security company that provides officers for shopping malls, schools, hotels, hospitals, office buildings and gated communities - repeatedly exposed its employees at the Boise Towne Square mall to workplace violence hazards and failed to follow its own procedures for interacting with armed individuals to enforce the mall’s code of conduct.
