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 President Biden’s nomination of Kalpana Kotagal to serve as a Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
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, joined Planned Parenthood leaders and a Title X patient at a Planned Parenthood health center in Seattle to talk about how the $4.5 million in Title X funding she...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), held a roundtable discussion in Tacoma with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, Marty Walsh, focused on strengthening workforce development programs...
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: (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 focused on enhancing emergency savings and strengthening retirement security. Senator Murray discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgency...
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 the Senate failed to confirm David Weil as Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the U.S. Department of Labor.
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, announced $4.5 million in new Title X funding for Washington state-allowing more Washington state patients to get the family planning and preventative health services...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor issued a policy bulletin announcing changes by its Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs to assist federal firefighters with certain occupational illnesses by making it easier for claimants to file certain claims and improving transparency in how claims are processed.
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 20, 2022
News Release: ESTERO, FL - A federal investigation of three North Miami Beach restaurants that found the operator denied 58 workers their full overtime wages, has recovered $18,705 in back wages and liquidated damages for the affected employees.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2022
News Release: Employer: Magnolia Processing Inc. Investigation site: 5255 Hwy 4, Tunica, MS 38676 Investigation findings: Wage and Hour Division investigators found the employer failed to comply with H-2A program regulations and also violated the Fair Labor Standards Act %20establishes%20minimum%20wage%2C,%2C%20State%2C%20and%20local%20governments.) ...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on April 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2022
The US Labor Department published a five page notice on April 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the National Labor Relations Board’s decision to intervene in the termination of an Amazon employee in Staten Island...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2022
News Release: LEWES, DE - Following litigation initiated by the U.S. Department of Labor, a federal court ordered a Delaware landscaping company and its owner to pay $50,622 in liquidated damages to 10 temporary workers.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2022
The US Labor Department published a three page notice on April 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking public comment on proposed revisions to Wagner-Peyser Act regulations to include Employment Service staff in public employment offices in state merit systems, and improve service delivery for migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the Department of Labor’s (DOL) flagrant overreach in its latest proposal to revoke Arizona’s State OSHA Plan...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2022
News Release: WAUKEGAN, IL - A Waukegan contractor - with a history of violating federal safety standards and ignoring safety citations - was cited again by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for exposing workers to deadly fall hazards at two separate job sites in October 2021. Joshua Herion - who does business as ECS Roofing Professionals Inc. - faces proposed penalties of $360,531.
