By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor - in collaboration with departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and the Office of Personnel Management - today announced the “Prescription Drug and Health Care Spending" interim final rule with comment period and the implementation of a reporting requirement for the cost of prescription drugs and certain medical expenses.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: APEX, NC – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $33,230 in back wages for five employees working on a federally funded construction project in Fayetteville. Investigators found the employer failed to pay workers all wages earned as required by the Davis Bacon Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: NEVILLE ISLAND, PA – A workplace safety investigation into the June death in Neville Island of a 19-year-old roofing worker who fell 30 feet through an unprotected skylight found two commercial contractors willfully failed to use fall protection systems that might have saved his life.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration, the IRS and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation today released informational copies of the 2021 Form 5500 Annual Return/Report and related instructions – including the Form 5500-SF. The IRS also released the 2021 ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that enforcements by its Employee Benefits Security Administration recovered more than $2.4 billion in direct payments to plans, participants and beneficiaries in fiscal year 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: PETAL, MS - The operator of two Mississippi auto service and repair shops has come into compliance after a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation recovered $90,068 in back wages for 33 workers and determined the employer failed to pay them overtime as the law requires.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of more than $8 million in contract investments to four national Industry Intermediaries to expand the use of Registered Apprenticeship in sectors affected by the pandemic. The department is seeking to develop apprenticeship opportunities ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - A 17-year-old employee of a Bronx Chuck E. Cheese/Pasqually’s Pizza & Wings restaurant set up, operated and cleaned a power-driven dough mixer - all in violation of federal child labor regulations, a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation has found.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - In advance of the Biden-Harris administration’s Summit for Democracy this week, U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh today announced the Multilateral Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment and Rights initiative - the largest commitment by the U.S. government to advance worker empowerment and support trade union rights in the global economy.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal whistleblower investigation led the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to order a Houston mobile crane rental company to pay a former employee nearly $24,000 in back wages, interest and damages after firing the worker in June 2020 for refusing to drive in excess of federal limits and reported fatigue.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: HONOLULU - A federal court has affirmed the findings of a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that determined the owner of three Hawaii restaurants denied workers overtime and minimum wages, and discarded time records in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh stood with workers and local officials in Birmingham, Alabama, today to announce the department’s final rule that implements Executive Order 14026 to increase the hourly minimum wage for employees on federal contracts to $15 per hour beginning Jan. 30, 2022. President Biden signed the order on April 27, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: SANTA FE, NM - In the nation’s third largest market for fine art, industry employers must meet exacting standards to safeguard and transact their clients’ work. Ironically, a recent federal investigation found the operator of a Santa Fe art delivery service was far less careful when it came to paying all of the wages earned by seven of its drivers.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: BRADENTON BEACH, FL – Two men doing framing work at a residential construction project in Bradenton Beach on June 23, 2021, had no warning when the platform beneath them failed, causing both to fall about 25 feet – roughly two stories – to the ground. Head trauma killed a 49-year-old carpenter and crew leader, who died at the scene. The second worker, a 40-year-old carpenter, suffered fractures to his leg, knee, ribs and nose, and needed transport to a local hospital.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: AUSTIN, TX - Officials from the U.S. Department of Labor and the Travis County District Attorney’s Office signed a Memorandum of Understanding to expand and improve the protection of Travis County’s workforce, enforcement of wage laws and level the playing field for responsible employers.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York has entered a consent judgment ordering a Syracuse gas station and convenience store and a Jamesville pizzeria and convenience store and their owner to pay $56,364 in back wages and an equal amount of $56,364 in liquidated damages to 12 employees denied overtime wages.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - Three Bellport concrete supply and construction companies and their owner, who schemed for three years to deny overtime pay to 99 laborers, have been ordered to pay the workers a total of $987,591 in back wages and liquidated damages, plus interest, in a consent judgment entered in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: GUAYNABO, PR - Oil and vapor releases into the air and fiery flares at a St. Croix refinery in February and May led to an investigation that found the operator failed to meet federal workplace chemical safety standards and endangered workers.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on President Biden’s nomination of Jerome Powell as Chair and Lael Brainard as Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve:
