By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - In 2021, the pandemic forced 17 employers in Maine’s coastal region, including Abbott Labs, B&M Baked Beans and Country Manor Nursing Home, to lay off more than 500 workers, which has prompted the U.S. Department of Labor to award a grant to help prepare these workers for new employment opportunities.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: Who: Marvin, West Fargo South, West Fargo, North Dakota
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment today released its report which details nearly 70 recommendations - approved by President Biden - that promote worker organizing and collective bargaining for public and private sector employees.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: WINTER PARK, FL - A Winter Park bakery engaged a 13-year-old worker as an unpaid volunteer, and risked the child’s safety by allowing them to operate a power-driven bread slicer, in violation of federal laws governing pay practices and child labor.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO ‒ Those questioning the need for equity among Black women in the workforce should look no further than a 2020 Bureau of Labor Statistics’ survey that found they earn just 63 cents for every dollar white men earn, and that they experienced a nearly 5 percent rate of job loss during the pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: Today, Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-NC), RSC Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN), and Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) led a group of House Republicans in filing an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in The Atlanta Opera, Inc. 371 NLRB No. 45 (2021). This case comes as the Democrat-controlled NLRB ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: ONAGA, KS ‒ Amid the pandemic, U.S. healthcare workers experienced a staggering 249 percent increase in injury and illness rates in 2020 while serving those in need. In fact, workers in the healthcare and social assistance industries combined, suffered more injuries and illnesses than workers in any industry in the nation.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: UNION, NJ - A federal court in New Jersey ordered an electrical and heating, ventilation and air conditioning company based in Union, and its two co-managers, to pay 89 electricians, electrician helpers and HVAC technicians after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the defendants deliberately denied overtime.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The increased demand and the constraints on the global supply chain have combined to place enormous strain on the nation’s warehouse and logistics industries, and has prompted the U.S. Department of Labor to take heightened action to ensure that warehouse and logistics workers’ wages and workplace rights are protected.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - During the height of the pandemic, records were broken as millions of Americans filed claims for unemployment benefits. As demand soared, the U.S. Department of Labor provided instructions to states to administer payments under several programs authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) Chair of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Assistant Speaker of the U.S. House Katherine Clark (D-MA-5), introduced the Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act to remove barriers...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 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 they are working in a bipartisan way to reauthorize, improve, and expand federal mental health and substance use disorder programs.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: ONAGA, KS ‒ Amid the pandemic, U.S. healthcare workers experienced a staggering 249 percent increase in injury and illness rates in 2020 while serving those in need. In fact, workers in the healthcare and social assistance industries combined, suffered more injuries and illnesses than workers in any industry in the nation.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Republican Leader Richard Burr (R-NC) sent a letter requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) review the National Labor Review Board’s (NLRB or Board) improper seating of David Prouty.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 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 on overcoming barriers to employment for workers with disabilities and building on recent progress, including the widespread use of inclusive practices to make work more accessible-like flexible schedules and remote options.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after the White House released its plan, via the task force on union organizing, to increase union bosses’ stranglehold over American workers...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, KY - What started as an investigation of a single Bowling Green-based caregiving provider became a sweeping review of six other franchise locations across three states when investigators uncovered systemic violations by the employer.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: MIRAMAR BEACH, FL - A federal investigation has recovered $47,088 for 30 employees from the operator of a Miramar Beach restaurant who denied them their rightfully earned overtime wages.
