By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2022
News Release: Employer: Señor Frog’s Orlando LLC Investigation site: 8747 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819 Investigation findings: The employer paid straight-time rates for overtime hours - recorded on payroll as bonuses. By doing so, the employer paid overtime at rates lower than the law requires. Señor Frog’s ...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2022
News Release: LINCOLN, NE - Each day, 13 people die in work-related incidents in the U.S., on average. In 2020, about 5,000 workers died in the U.S. in work-related fatalities. Tens of thousands more die of work-related diseases.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2022
News Release: LINCOLN, NE - Each day, 13 people die in work-related incidents in the U.S., on average. In 2020, about 5,000 workers died in the U.S. in work-related fatalities. Tens of thousands more die of work-related diseases.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2022
News Release: Senator Murray: “We can-and must-get this plan across the finish line. Because it’s as clear as day that we’ve got to do something big to support child care providers and finally lift the stress of finding and affording high-quality child care off families’ shoulders."
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2022
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and House Administration Committee Republican Leader Rodney Davis (R-IL) sent a letter to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asking how he plans to prevent or counteract partisan election education taking place...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration established a Local Emphasis Program to reduce workplace dangers and better protect workers from machine and amputation hazards in Wisconsin food manufacturing facilities.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2022
News Release: Dear Mr. Vasos: I request information concerning Dollar General’s labor, employment, and workplace safety practices. Along with Dollar Tree, Dollar General is one of two major dollar store corporations in the United States, and has seen explosive-and continuing-growth, with the two combining for more...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2022
News Release: FORT MYERS, FL - Federal laws exist to ensure employees get all their legally earned wages and when a Fort Myers security group’s pay practices shortchanged the overtime wages of 29 workers, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division helped to recover $107,936 in back wages and liquidated damages owed.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2022
News Release: LYNDHURST, NJ - Week after week, a worker at Advantix Logistics Corp. kept finding paychecks short of their expectations. After several complaints to a supervisor, the company responded by firing the worker. When the worker raised concerns that the final paycheck did not include all wages earned, the company threatened continued retaliation.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 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 on the Governor of Oklahoma signing an abortion ban into law, making it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to 10 years...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: AUSTIN, TX - After escaping from a partial trench collapse hours earlier, two workers employed by an Austin contractor to install a residential wastewater line were not as fortunate later on Oct. 23, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: Employer: Fayetteville Miyabi Inc., operating as Miyabi Japanese Steak Restaurant
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: Dear Commissioner Califf: I am deeply concerned about a new report into longstanding, significant delays and dysfunction across food safety efforts at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Americans rely on the FDA to ensure the food they are eating and feeding their families is safe. The FDA’s...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 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 after being announced as a member of the conference committee which will negotiate the differences between the Senate-passed United...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 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 on a new Politico report that details a culture of inaction at the Food and Drug Administration in the agency’s food safety and nutrition...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: Participant: Raytheon Global Headquarters, Waltham, Massachusetts
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
There was activity on four bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on April 21.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a proposal to reconsider and revoke the final approval of Arizona's State OSHA plan, in response to nearly a decade-long pattern of failures to adopt and enforce standards and enforcement policies at least as effective as those used by the department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: Dear Secretary Cardona: We write to express support for the steps you have taken to provide relief to student loan borrowers thus far and to urge you to build on those efforts by enacting meaningful and lasting reforms to the federal student loan system. The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - The operator of seven Oklahoma City-area taco shop franchises claimed that workers requested higher hourly wages rather than being paid overtime for hours over 40 in a workweek - an illegal agreement whether the workers consented or not - and as a recent U.S. Department of Labor investigation shows, is a costly error by the employer.
