By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined every Republican Committee Member in cosponsoring a Congressional Review Act resolution, introduced by Workforce Protections Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA), to nullify the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine-and-testing mandate for American employers and employees.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh today issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announcement of a new worksite enforcement strategy : “Labor laws exist to provide a basic level of protection for all workers in the U.S. When employers take advantage of immigrant ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MARINETTE, WI – Recent federal safety inspections of a northern Wisconsin foundry determined workplace safety failures caused two workers to suffer severe injuries. In May, a worker lost two fingers to amputation and in July, an overhead hot metal carrier struck and injured another worker. While the ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a new emergency temporary standard to protect more than 84 million workers from the spread of the coronavirus on the job. The nation’s unvaccinated workers face grave danger from workplace exposure to coronavirus, and immediate action is necessary to protect them.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO – Amid soaring prices in its residential real estate market – with homes selling for an average of $800,000 – a federal investigation has found a San Diego construction contractor failing to share its prosperity and intentionally failing to pay overtime wages as required to 568 drywall installers, tapers and hangers.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In 2010, there were an estimated 1,000 deaths by overdose in New Jersey , 50 percent of them blamed on controlled substances. A decade later, fatal overdoses claimed more than 2,938 residents’ lives. Of those, controlled substances, including opioids, led to 2,585 – or nearly 88 percent – of these deaths.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL – In the Southeast, the pest control industry employs more workers than anywhere in the nation, and pays its workers some of the industry’s lowest wages. So, when Beebe’s Pest & Termite Control – operating in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi – failed to pay all of the wages earned by 28 workers, the employer made it even harder for them to make ends meet.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON – All Seasons Hospitality and Investments LLC and owner Tanvir Shahmohd, operator of a Houston-area hotel, has agreed to pay an employee back wages and damages following a U.S. Department of Labor whistleblower investigation.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas telemarketing enterprise that shortchanged more than 1,328 call center workers has been ordered to pay more than $1.4 million in back wages and liquidated damages by a federal court in San Francisco. The judgement follows a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that found Wellfleet ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, TX – A Lufkin contractor’s failure to assemble a crane boom properly caused the crane to collapse onto a passing vehicle on Interstate 10 near Beaumont, killing the two occupants in April 2021. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a proposal to rescind the final rule “Implementing Legal Requirements Regarding the Equal Opportunity Clause’s Religious Exemption.” The final rule has been in effect since Jan. 8, 2021. The Federal Register will publish the proposal on Nov. 9, ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PLANO, TX – A customer management consulting company based in Plano “benched” an employee in violation of the federal H-1B visa program by hiring the nonimmigrant worker as a software developer then failing to use the worker and pay the wages promised, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON –The U.S. Department of Labor today launched an online dialogue with stakeholders to increase access to Registered Apprenticeships for job seekers in underrepresented communities.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: DALLAS – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a complaint in federal court seeking to recover $35 million in losses and alleging that three members of a Carrollton moving and storage company’s board of directors and a trustee of the company’s employee stock ownership plan allowed the sale of the ESOP’s ownership interest for less than its market value in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BOSTON – A federal court has entered a consent judgment that recovers $165,044 for 75 workers at three Massachusetts restaurants that intentionally failed to pay overtime wages. The consent judgment also orders the defendants to pay $77,750 in civil money penalties given the willful nature of the violations. ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the kickoff of the seventh annual National Apprenticeship Week , Nov. 15-21, a Presidential proclamation on apprenticeship and the launch of a new collaborative effort to expand, diversify and modernize Registered Apprenticeships in the U.S.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a final rule that sets reasonable limits on the amount of time tipped employees can spend in non-tipped activities when the employer receives a tip credit. The rule clarifies that an employer may only take a tip credit for the hours when an employee is doing work that is tip-producing or engaged in tasks that directly support tip producing work.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: HARTFORD, CT – A Connecticut aircraft parts manufacturer did not take required steps to identify potential exposures and protect employees from hexavalent chromium and cadmium – both known carcinogens – at its Bloomfield facility, a U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety inspection has found.
