By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 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 15, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on April 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
This bill is sponsored by Rep. Andy Levin.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 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 15, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today published its Equity Action Plan in response to the Biden-Harris administration’s Executive Order 13985 on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities , issued in 2021. The order promotes a whole-of-government equity agenda that addresses systemic barriers to opportunities and benefits offered by the federal government.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: TRAFFORD, PA - Four federal investigations have led to the recovery of $383,183 in back wages and liquidated damages for 46 workers of a Trafford homecare service provider who denied them their full wages by not paying them overtime when the law required.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 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 15, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the appointment of seven members and leadership for the 2022 Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, also known as the ERISA Advisory Council.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 2022
News Release: BAYVILLE, NJ - Following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation, an administrative law judge ordered a commercial landscaping company based in Bayville to pay 47 temporary landscaping workers $181,670.19 in back wages. The employer will also pay $38,329.81 in civil money penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 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 14, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Financial Services Committee Republican Leader Patrick McHenry (R-NC) sent letters to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra and the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) Chief Operating Officer Richard Cordray regarding the agencies’ oversight of the federal student loan programs.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 14, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s latest endeavor on behalf of the Biden administration to expand union membership by urging the NLRB to overturn 50 years of precedent and reinstate the 1949 Joy Silk Mills standard, which empowers the NLRB to impose union representation on workers without an official election...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 14, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and the Austrian Minister for Digital and Economic Affairs Dr. Margarete Schramböck signed a memorandum of understanding today to expand Registered Apprenticeships among Austrian companies and Austrian-invested companies in the U.S. to promote job creation ...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 14, 2022
The US Labor Department published a three page notice on April 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 14, 2022
News Release: UNION CITY, CA - A federal investigation has recovered $176,193 in back wages for nine health care workers after the owner of four Bay Area residential care homes denied them overtime pay.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 14, 2022
News Release: Employer: Kevsal Inc., operating as Jose Tequilas Mexican Grill & Bar, 615 Thimble Shoals, Newport News Jose Tequilas Inc., operating as Jose Tequilas Mexican Grill & Bar, 2052 Lynnhaven Parkway, Virginia Beach Tapatio Inc., operating as Jose Tequilas Mexican Grill & Bar, 2101 McComas Way, Virginia ...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 14, 2022
There was activity on five bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on April 14.
