By DOL Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board announced today that the department’s Wage and Hour Division and the NLRB have signed a Memorandum of Understanding strengthening the agencies’ partnership and outlining procedures on information-sharing, joint investigations and enforcement activity, as well as training, education and community outreach.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 20, 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, urged Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue a permanent standard to protect health care workers, and take immediate action to secure strong workplace protections for all workers.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
Release: Who: Wage and Hour Division Occupational Safety and Health Administration What: Assistance and enforcement action in Arkansas after December 2021 tornadoes When: Ongoing Where: Northeast Arkansas Background: The department’s Wage and Hour Division and Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: NORTH PORT, FL - Working in the recesses of Apalachicola National Forest on a July day as temperatures neared 100 degrees, the supervisor of two crews hired to clear invasive plants saw one 42-year-old worker was sweating heavily, his hands were trembling, and he seemed confused, unable to respond to commands.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: Join House Republicans Tuesday evening at 5:00 pm ET for a live roundtable conversation with guests about children’s education. Every student deserves to achieve their full potential. But three years of disrupted learning has exposed deep flaws in our education system: abrupt and seemingly endless school ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: HONOLULU - A U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division investigation has found a Hawaii flooring contractor misclassified some employees as independent contractors and paid others straight-time wages for all hours when they worked over 40 in a workweek, both violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: TAMPA, FL - An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor led to major changes by a Tampa employer in its pay practices that have the potential to affect the lives of more than 2,000 local workers.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - A federal court in New York has ordered a Long Island pizzeria and its owner to pay $178,000 in back wages, damages and civil money penalties after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the employer’s pay practices shortchanged workers when it failed to pay overtime wages.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: BURLINGTON, NC – To ensure nursing mothers can care for their newborns and earn a living, federal law requires employers to designate a place for them to express milk privately without fear of intrusion.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY – While nursing home workers continue to put themselves at-risk as the nation battles the ongoing pandemic, federal investigators found that the pay practices of three Oklahoma City-area nursing homes denied 129 workers all of their hard-earned wages.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: BOSTON – An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor has led the fiduciaries of a Utica, New York, employee stock ownership plan to agree to return $431,000 to the plan’s participants and take action to resolve its Employee Retirement Income Security Act violations.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: DELAIR, NJ - Aluminum Shapes LLC will affirm a $1 million penalty and accept 10 willful, 15 repeat and 55 serious violations and one other-than-serious citation in a settlement agreement to resolve two long-running U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration cases related to a fatality and a series of employee injuries at the company’s Delair plant.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the awards of $14 million in cooperative agreements to support a broad set of actions by two projects intended to combat child labor, forced labor and human trafficking, which affects more than 200 million children, women and men worldwide.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 16, 2022
There were 10 notices published by the Labor Department in week ending Jan. 15, according to the Federal Register.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 16, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 16, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page rule on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 15, 2022
There were 65 press releases published by the U.S. Department of Labor in December.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 15, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 15, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: FINDLAY, OH - Responding to a complaint that a Findlay auto-parts supplier was ignoring guidelines to limit employee exposure to the coronavirus and that several employees were sick, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found the company did not enforce its own policy or federal guidelines on social distancing and mask wearing.
