By DOL Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page proposed rule on March 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
The US Labor Department published a five page notice on March 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
The US Labor Department published a four page notice on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 24, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 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 how the federal government can better support frontline efforts to address the mental health and substance use disorder crises that have been exacerbated by COVID-19 and have touched communities across our country.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on March 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2022
News Release: Employers: William Specialty Services LLC 100 Crescent Centre Parkway, Tucker, GA 30084 G UB MK Constructors 297 River Road, Muscle Shoals, AL 35661 Tennessee Valley Authority 1101 Market St., Chattanooga, TN 37402 Citations issued: William Specialty Services LLC One willful, two serious ...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Following litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of the Solicitor, a federal court has entered a consent judgment against three restaurants - one in Pennsylvania and two in West Virginia - and their owners after investigators found they paid back-of-the-house employees off-the-books salaries for all hours worked and denied them overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2022
News Release: SEATTLE - An ongoing federal initiative to investigate pay practices of residential builders in Washington State found that a Lacey contractor recklessly failed to pay workers overtime for hours they worked over 40 in a workweek in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has reopened the rulemaking record partially and scheduled an informal public hearing to seek comments on specific topics that relate to the development of a final standard to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from workplace exposure to the COVID-19 virus.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2022
News Release: STERLING, MA - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation found that a plastic packaging manufacturer - with a history of workplace safety and health inspections - could have prevented a worker at its Sterling facility from suffering severe burns if they had complied with OSHA’s requirements for lockout/tagout and provided personal protective equipment.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 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, hosted a virtual roundtable with Washington state borrowers and the state’s student loans ombudswoman to hear directly about how the broken student loan system is...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2022
News Release: HONOLULU -The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $62,908 in back wages and liquidated damages for 42 workers after an investigation found the operators of five Hawaii restaurants denied them overtime pay and allowed a manager and other employees to take a portion of the workers’ tips illegally.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Solicitor of Labor Seema Nanda today issued a statement on the Department of Labor’s filing of an amicus in a case now before the National Labor Relations Board. The brief argues the validity of a confidentiality provision in a mandatory arbitration agreement imposed on employees by Ralph’s Grocery Company.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has reopened the rulemaking record partially and scheduled an informal public hearing to seek comments on specific topics that relate to the development of a final standard to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from workplace exposure to the COVID-19 virus.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2022
News Release: Employers: William Specialty Services LLC. 100 Crescent Centre Parkway, Tucker, GA 30084. G UB MK Constructors. 297 River Road, Muscle Shoals, AL 35661. Tennessee Valley Authority. 1101 Market St., Chattanooga, TN 37402. Citations issued: William Specialty Services LLC. One willful, two serious violations...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - American Indians and Alaska Natives have traditionally faced higher unemployment rates and lower workforce participation, and attained lower levels of education - subjecting them to lower wages, fewer career opportunities and a continued cycle of unemployment and poverty.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 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 Idaho adopting a copy-cat abortion ban modeled after Texas’ SB-8, which bans abortion after six weeks and allows family members to sue the abortion provider for a cash prize for helping a patient get an abortion. Unless a court intervenes, the law will go into effect in 30 days.
