By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD – Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. – the country’s largest pork processor – has agreed to assemble a team of company and third-party experts to develop an infectious disease preparedness plan that the company will implement at all of its processing facilities nationwide.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BOSTON – The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has entered a consent judgment and order enjoining a Canton contractor and his business permanently from retaliating against workers who cooperate with U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigations and otherwise exercise ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: FORT MYERS, FL – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic partnership with Manhattan Construction Florida Inc. to promote worker safety and health at the Southwest Florida International Airport expansion project in Fort Myers. The University of South Florida On-site Safety and Health Consultation Program is also a partner in the effort.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU – The owner of a Honolulu restaurant made earning a living difficult for its employees by allowing a manager to illegally keep a portion of workers’ tips and denying overtime pay to salaried cooks who worked an average of 55 hours a week, a recent federal investigation has found.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: HAMMOND, LA – A Hammond security solutions company illegally denied 23 field operations managers in Louisiana their federal overtime protections. The employees, labeled executives and paid on a salary basis, worked about 60 hours a week, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee Republican Leader Greg Murphy, M.D. (R-NC), and Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT) sent a letter to Committee Democrats ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Illinois On-Site Safety and Health Consultation Program, Lakeside Alliance and key participants have signed a strategic partnership to prevent serious hazards and enhance workplace safety and health practices for workers constructing the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South side.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke at the Independent Women’s Forum rally titled, “Government Is Not A Co-Parent." She discussed the importance of standing against the left’s attempt to silence parents, especially in light of the Biden administration’s DOJ taskforce dedicated to intimidating parent participation at school board meetings.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY – A Louisville-based maker of eyeglasses and other optical goods that allegedly discriminated against 654 Black and white applicants for production positions will pay $227,636 in back wages and interest to the applicants, and make 31 job offers as positions become available.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Record-breaking heat in the U.S. in 2021 endangered millions of workers exposed to heat illness and injury in both indoor and outdoor work environments. Workers in outdoor and indoor work settings without adequate climate-controlled environments are at risk of hazardous heat exposure, and workers of color are exposed disproportionately to hazardous levels of heat in essential jobs across these work settings.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Nov. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
The US Labor Department published a four page notice on Nov. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
The US Labor Department published a one page proposed rule on Nov. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD - Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. - the country’s largest pork processor - has agreed to assemble a team of company and third-party experts to develop an infectious disease preparedness plan that the company will implement at all of its processing facilities nationwide.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA) recently sent a letter to the Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Lina Khan, expressing concern over the FTC’s revival of a decades ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 14, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK – For several years, workers for a building services contractor maintained HVAC services, electrical and lighting systems, elevators, fire safety equipment and internal mail distribution at a federal office building in Jamaica, Queens, under a federal contract with the Social Security Administration. The contract was worth $3.4 million in its final year.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration today announced Field Assistance Bulletin 2021-02 , “Temporary Enforcement Policy on Prohibited Transaction Rules Applicable to Investment Advice Fiduciaries.” On Dec. 18, 2020, the department adopted Class Prohibited ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $1.6 million incremental funding award to the Connecticut Department of Labor to support job creation and workforce training services in eight communities affected significantly by widespread opioid use, addiction and overdose.
