By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2023
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD ‒ Employees working for the same local contractor at two different Sioux Falls locations avoided tragedy after facing potentially deadly electrocution and trench cave-in hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2023
News Release: LONE JACK, MO - A federal workplace safety investigation at a Lone Jack cattle processing plant - now cited seven times by inspectors for endangering workers since March 2020 - found employees exposed to high levels of carbon dioxide.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2023
There were nine notices published by the Labor Department in week ending Jan. 28, according to the Federal Register.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
There were 31 notices published by the Labor Department in December, according to the Federal Register.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: WIXOM, MI - The operator of a Culver’s franchise restaurant location in Wixom has paid $13,212 in civil money penalties after federal investigators determined the employer allowed 18 teens - ages 14 and 15 - to work more than federal child labor laws permit.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Representative Jeff Duncan (R-SC) led 126 House Republicans in filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in the upcoming case considering the Biden administration’s student loan bailout, which exploits legislation drafted in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, meant to assist service members and veterans.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: HO-HO-KUS, NJ - Two roofing workers dead - victims of preventable workplace falls in New York - both in the month of February - the first in 2019 in Kameisha Lake and the second in 2022 in Spring Valley.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: HO-HO-KUS, NJ - Two roofing workers dead - victims of preventable workplace falls in New York - both in the month of February - the first in 2019 in Kameisha Lake and the second in 2022 in Spring Valley.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Republican Leader Bill Cassidy (R-LA) rebuked the administration’s reckless Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) rule proposal and called on Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to extend the rushed public comment period.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: Participants: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Buffalo Area Office
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on the January 2023 Employment Situation Report
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FL - Three construction contractors might have prevented the death of a 31-year-old laborer who suffered fatal injuries after falling while installing roof trusses at a Tallahassee work site on Aug. 17, 2022, a federal workplace safety investigation has found.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: Today, House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Republican Leader John Boozman (R-AR) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced unworkable nutrition standards that will hamstring schools...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: US Department of Labor bestows ambassador status on
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: COLUMBUS, OH - A complaint of unsafe work conditions brought federal safety inspectors to a Columbus, Ohio, Dollar Tree store where their findings - employees exposed fire hazards and in danger of unsafely stored and stacked boxes of merchandise falling on them - mirror those violations identified at many other U.S. locations operated by one of the nation's largest discount retailers.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to National Labor Relations Board (the Board) Chairman Lauren McFerran in opposition to the Board’s proposed rule which weakens employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), makes the interests of unions a priority, and strips employees of vital protections.
