By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: RALEIGH, NC - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $287,923 in back wages and liquidated damages for 152 workers after its investigation found that an Asheville gift and novelty wholesaler ran afoul of federal law by denying some workers the full overtime pay they earned.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Yesterday, on National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and a panel of House Republicans to highlight the importance of protecting Title IX against the Left’s attacks on the landmark legislation.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: CENTRAL ISLIP, NY - The operator of two Long Island restaurants may have thought they only had to take orders from customers, but now has learned that ignoring the orders of federal investigators and a federal court will get you arrested.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor is launching an effort to alert families throughout the nation of changes in federal law that now extend the rights to pump breastmilk at work to more women, including those employed as teachers, farmworkers and care workers.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: LANSDOWNE, PA - Nearly 400 home healthcare workers, employed in an industry rife with overtime violations, will receive the wages they are owed after the U.S. Department of Labor obtained a consent judgment ordering a Philadelphia-area agency and its owners to pay them more than $2.3 million. A federal investigation found the employer willfully shortchanged employees’ hard-earned overtime wages.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 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 3, 2023
News Release: TAMPA, FL - A Florida labor contractor is headed to prison for nearly 10 years after a U.S. Department of Labor and multi-agency investigation into his part in a conspiracy to subject migrant farmworkers to forced labor, obstruct investigators, intimidate witnesses and house workers in unsafe and unhealthy living conditions.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 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 2, 2023
News Release: On Wednesday at 10:15 a.m., the Education and the Workforce Committee will hold its first hearing, titled “American Education in Crisis," which will discuss the state of K-12 and postsecondary education.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today its Veterans’ Employment and Training Service has signed a memorandum of understanding with seven new partners for the agency’s Employment Navigator and Partnership Pilot. With these additions, a total of 47 partners now support the initiative.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued citations at three more Amazon warehouses - in Aurora, Colorado; Nampa, Idaho; and Castleton, New York - for failing to keep workers safe and delivered hazard alert letters for exposing workers to ergonomic hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: Today, on National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) celebrated the reintroduction of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. The legislation, authored by Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) and cosponsored by Chairwoman Foxx, allows women...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued citations at three more Amazon warehouses - in Aurora, Colorado; Nampa, Idaho; and Castleton, New York - for failing to keep workers safe and delivered hazard alert letters for exposing workers to ergonomic hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: DENVER - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $203,332 in back wages after an investigation found a Denver landscaping company owned by a father and son - Fermin and Roberto Daniel Guardado - denied overtime wages to 14 workers, and failed to keep complete records as the law requires.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
Release: Date of Action: Jan. 18, 2023
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
Release: Employer: Armando’s Mexican Restaurant LLC. Investigation site: 5792 Memorial Blvd. Saint George, South Carolina 29477. Investigation findings: Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found that the employer allowed some employees to work off-the-clock without compensation, a violation ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO ‒ A fourth-year apprentice heating, ventilation and air conditioning technician employed by U.S. Engineering Services suffered fatal electrocution after coming in contact with energized parts while repairing HVAC equipment on Aug. 24, 2022, at University Academy, a college prep charter school in Kansas City, Missouri.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at the Committee’s Organizational Meeting for the 118th Congress...
