By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Today, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at the joint subcommittee hearing on successful models for protecting communities from COVID-19...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced the award of more than $11.6 million in grants to 93 nonprofit organizations nationwide to fund education and training on hazard recognition and prevention, and on rights of workers to safe workplaces and the responsibilities of employers to provide them.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: The Consider Teachers Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Mike Braun, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, and in the House by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Education and Labor Committee Member Victoria Spartz aimed at fixing a broken system burdening teachers with unfair loans, passed the U.S. House of Representatives today. This legislation was passed in the Senate in April and now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Rick Allen (R-GA) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at the joint subcommittee hearing on successful models for protecting communities from COVID-19...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the House Education and Labor Committee Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Republican Leader of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) sent a third letter to Department of Education Secretary Cardona requesting an update on the Department’s plan to transition student loan borrowers from the repayment freeze in effect during the COVID-19 pandemic into active repayment status.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after yet another major student loan servicer, Navient, announced it would end its federal contract...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: RAVENNA, OH - A Ravenna, Ohio, aluminum parts manufacturer with a history of safety violations now faces $1,671,738 in penalties for 38 safety and health violations following an investigation into the death of a 43-year-old worker struck by a machine's barrier door on March 30, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 24, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.)-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor & Pensions, Senator Richard Blumenthal, Lead Sponsor of the Women’s Health Protection Act, and Senator Richard Durbin, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following joint statement on House passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI) re-introduced the Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2021, legislation to address...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 21, 2021
News Release: DENTON, TX - A Fort Worth masonry company continues to put its workers at risk for falls - the leading cause of death and serious injury in the construction industry - by ignoring workplace safety regulations, a recent federal inspection at a Denton work site found.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold a virtual meeting Oct. 13, 2021, to solicit public comments and suggestions on key issues facing OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 21, 2021
News Release: STREETSBORO, OH - An Orwell roofing contractor continues to put himself and his workers at risk of injury or worse by defying federal requirements to use fall protection and have protective equipment readily available on job sites, a recent workplace inspection found.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 20, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, 48 Democrats in the Senate and 188 in the House filed a bicameral amicus brief in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, urging the Supreme Court to uphold nearly 50 years of precedent in Roe v. Wade and protect the constitutional right to abortion care.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 20, 2021
News Release: Joe Biden’s promise not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year is hitting a major snag: inflation.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - To combat the hazards associated with extreme heat exposure - both indoors and outdoors - the White House today announced enhanced and expanded efforts the U.S. Department of Labor is taking to address heat-related illnesses.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2021
News Release: MONT BELVIEU, TX - One electrical construction worker died and another suffered severe injuries after falling about 15 stories from a platform that federal inspectors found was not secured properly to the crane suspending it. The employees were erecting electrical transmission lines near Houston.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 16, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO - To combat the dangers workers face in construction, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Builders' Association renewed their 20-year Build Safe Partnership Program recently to train and protect industry workers throughout Missouri and eastern Kansas.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 15, 2021
News Release: DALLAS - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges response crews and residents in areas affected by Hurricane Nicholas to recognize the hazards created by flooding, power loss, structural damage, fallen trees and storm debris.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 14, 2021
News Release: GAINESVILLE, GA - On Jan. 28, 2021, an uncontrolled release of liquid nitrogen at a Gainesville poultry processing facility claimed the lives of six workers. Less than two months later, workers were again subjected to a chemical release at the plant, after an ammonia leak on March 11.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 14, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate voted to confirm James Kvaal to serve as Under Secretary of the Department of Education (ED) by a bipartisan vote of 58-37. In remarks on the Senate floor, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, reiterated her strong support for Mr. Kvaal, who has a long record working to build a more equitable higher education system for students.
