Stories by DOL Newswire on Federal Newswire


There were eight notices published by the Labor Department in week ending Dec. 11, according to the Federal Register.


HELP Committee Posts Updated Build Back Better Text Ahead of Bipartisan Parliamentary Discussions

News Release: Washington, D.C. -Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) today released updated text of the HELP Committee’s title of the Build Back Better Act. The updates reflect policy and technical changes, including changes to comply with Senate budget rules.


Murray Statement on Surprise Billing Lawsuit

News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to a lawsuit filed to block the Biden Administration’s rule implementing a law Senator Murray passed to ban surprise bills.


Senator Murray on SCOTUS Allowing the Texas Abortion Ban to Remain in Effect: “We Need the Women's Health Protection Act”

News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, which allows Texas’ SB8-the most extreme and harsh abortion ban in the United States-to remain in effect.


Senator Murray Joins Senators Schumer, Gillibrand, and Wyden in Briefing with Paid Leave for All to Make Clear: A National Paid Leave Policy Can’t Wait

News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Paid Leave for All Director Dawn Huckelbridge to discuss the urgency...



The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Amid Reports that Insurers Are Flouting ACA Contraception Coverage Protections, Senators Murray, Wyden Urge Biden Administration to Protect Access to Birth Control

News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Ron Wyden, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, pushed to end barriers patients face in getting their birth control covered by insurance without cost-sharing-which still persist despite the Affordable Care Act (ACA) contraception coverage protections.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report that the true cost of the so-called Build Back Better bill is over double what Democrats initially advertised.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and every Republican Member of the Education and Labor Committee sent a letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Marty Walsh expressing strong opposition to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) authoritarian vaccination-and-testing diktat. The letter urges the DOL to withdraw the deeply flawed and unlawful emergency temporary standard (ETS).


Senator Murray Slams Republicans’ Dangerous Effort to Undermine Economic Recovery and Pandemic Response by Upending Vaccine and Testing Safety Standard

News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, took to the Senate floor to slam Republicans’ dangerous political ploy to overturn the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)-a key tool to protect workers, get more people vaccinated, help end the pandemic, and keep our economic recovery on track.


Senator Murray Highlights Provisions to Drastically Lower Insulin Costs for Washington State Families in Build Back Better

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health Committee, and Kevin Wren, a type 1 diabetic and health care advocate from Seattle, joined Protect Our Care to discuss the Build Back Better Act’s critical provisions to make insulin more affordable. A Washington...


Foxx, Fulcher Condemn Biden Administration’s Attack on Religious Federal Contractors

News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee Republican Leader Russ Fulcher (R-ID) sent a letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Marty Walsh expressing opposition to the DOL’s proposed rescission of religious liberty protections for federal contractors.


Foxx: Senate Scores Win Against Tyrannical Vaccine Mandates

News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement in response to the Senate passing the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to nullify President Biden’s vaccine mandate for private employers and workers.


The US Labor Department published a one page rule on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.