By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a federal court in Illinois to hold fiduciaries of the United Employee Benefit Fund, along with its counsel, liable for more than $2.8 million in losses after an investigation found they allowed the misappropriation of the fund’s assets. A Chicago-based multiple employer welfare arrangement, UEBF provides life insurance benefits to about 63 nationwide employer-sponsored benefit plans.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and Ranking Member, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), announced the HELP Committee will hold an executive session on March 15th, to mark up the PREVENT Pandemics Act, legislation aimed at strengthening the nation’s public health and medical preparedness and response systems in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants grant opened on March 2.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
Release: Employer name: Heavenly Victory LLC, doing business as Naranjero Super 1
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, OR - The U.S. Department of Labor enforces laws that protect workers’ rights. It also holds unscrupulous employers who shortchange their workers accountable, as it has done on behalf of 118 workers at three Oregon restaurants after an investigation revealed wage theft and other violations.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
The US Labor Department published a three page notice on March 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO ‒ Careworkers put in long hours tending to the vital needs of people in their homes and at health care facilities, yet they are among the nation’s lowest paid workers. Their jobs are made even more difficult when employers fail to pay them all their rightfully earned wages.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on March 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2022
There were 16 press releases published by the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in February.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Throughout the pandemic, disparities in access to benefits affected women, communities of color and other marginalized workers at a higher rate and often delayed delivery of much needed financial support and services. These disparities in access to unemployment insurance exposed serious real-world shortcomings in the outdated systems used to deliver state and territories unemployment insurance benefits.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - A federal investigation into a fatal workplace injury on Aug. 19, 2021, at a Town of Oyster Bay municipal building has found a Setauket roofing contractor failed to provide necessary safeguards to protect employees against falls.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Over the past year, dozens of miners have been injured or killed in mining incidents, many of which could have been prevented with proper training and attention to tasks. This unacceptable trend has prompted the U.S. Department of Labor to initiate a new safety campaign to reach miners and educate mine operators on their responsibility to ensure a safe workplace and prevent deadly accidents.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 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 a video on the Senate’s 46-48 vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA).
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - A federal investigation into a fatal workplace injury on Aug. 19, 2021, at a Town of Oyster Bay municipal building has found a Setauket roofing contractor failed to provide necessary safeguards to protect employees against falls.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced the availability of up to $12 million in funding to empower federal and state labor inspectors in Mexico to improve enforcement of the country’s landmark 2019 labor law reform in five states, with a focus on Northern States.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 27, 2022
News Release: HARTVILLE, OH - A Hartsville contractor has been cited for the sixth time since 2018 for exposing workers to deadly fall hazards on two separate Ohio job sites.
