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
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: EL PASO, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Texas metal fabricator for repeatedly exposing employees to fall, machine and other safety hazards. OSHA's most recent inspection of Kyoei Steel LTD - operating as Vinton Steel LLC - found 19 violations. The agency proposed penalties of $364,078.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: LANCASTER, PA - A federal court entered a consent judgment against a Pennsylvania home healthcare agency and its owner after investigators found they denied 193 direct care workers overtime pay.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking nominations for membership on the Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health for Part E of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD - Each year, hundreds of workers are injured - some fatally - on construction sites. So, as the spring construction season gets into full swing, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and more than 500 voluntary employee members of the Associated General Contractors of South Dakota are teaming up to protect workers from common construction industry hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh today toured a treatment facility operated by the Spanish Fort Water System, an Alabama water utility company, to highlight efforts by the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to protect workers from heat-related hazards in the workplace.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Puget Sound Shipbuilders Association in Seattle have renewed an alliance to continue a collaborative relationship that provides shipyard workers and companies with information about hazards and resources to promote safe, healthful workplaces and workers’ rights.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: AUGUSTA, ME - A Maine roofing and siding contractor, solely owned, operated and controlled by Andrew Raymond Pollock, willfully exposed its employees to fall hazards at a Hampden residential construction site on multiple occasions during the same inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Puget Sound Shipbuilders Association in Seattle have renewed an alliance to continue a collaborative relationship that provides shipyard workers and companies with information about hazards and resources to promote safe, healthful workplaces and workers’ rights.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
The US Labor Department published an eight page notice on April 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: CLEARWATER, FL - A federal investigation into how a 47-year-old carpenter was fatally injured on Oct. 6, 2021, at the Pinellas Gateway Express project in Clearwater found his employer violated safety standards by allowing workers to remain in a crane load’s danger zone.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: CLEARWATER, FL - A federal investigation into how a 47-year-old carpenter was fatally injured on Oct. 6, 2021, at the Pinellas Gateway Express project in Clearwater found his employer violated safety standards by allowing workers to remain in a crane load’s danger zone.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 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.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the Department of Education’s latest push to extend student loan forgiveness through income-driven repayment programs...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 18, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a comment letter to the Department of Education expressing concern over its proposed rule regarding the charter school programs (CSP) grants, which sends a hostile message to charter schools and supporters of educational freedom.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 18, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Education and Labor Committee on April 18.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 17, 2022
There were 11 notices published by the Labor Department in week ending April 16, according to the Federal Register.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
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