By DOL Newswire | Sep 14, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - In Connecticut, a tree branch contacted a live high-voltage power line as a worker in an aerial lift cut it, electrocuting him. In Massachusetts, a falling tree branch struck and killed a worker cutting down oak trees, while a falling tree limb struck an elevated bucket lift, ejecting the worker whose fall was fatal. In nearby Rhode Island, a log conveyor rolled over a worker performing repairs, crushing and killing him.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Committee Democrats voted to advance their radical, reckless $780 billion budget reconciliation package...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2021
News Release: Today, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, opposing the Democrat's Fiscal Year 2022 Education and Labor budget reconciliation package...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Cincinnati stone manufacturer was cited again for exposing workers to amputation hazards when it failed to ensure machine safety procedures were followed and machine guards were in place, as required by law.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after the White House announced it will be ordering the Department of Labor to issue a national regulation on worker vaccination...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2021
News Release: At the opening of today's markup of the Democrats' Fiscal Year 2022 Education and Labor budget reconciliation package, Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, slamming Democrats' socialist, reckless, and un-American spending proposals...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House unveiled their drug pricing scheme...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced the award of more than $6.7 million in grants to 37 nonprofit organizations nationwide to fund education and training programs to help workers and employers recognize infectious diseases, including...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced the award of more than $6.7 million in grants to 37 nonprofit organizations nationwide to fund education and training programs to help workers and employers recognize infectious diseases, including...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced the award of more than $6.7 million in grants to 37 nonprofit organizations nationwide to fund education and training programs to help workers and employers recognize infectious diseases, including...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 8, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Education and Labor Democrats unveiled their piece of President Biden’s $3.5 trillion partisan spending package...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced the award of more than $6.7 million in grants to 37 nonprofit organizations nationwide to fund education and training programs to help workers and employers recognize infectious diseases, including...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 3, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) introduced the Curriculum Review of Teachings (CRT) Transparency Act. This legislation would require local school districts to post the curriculum for each grade of their elementary and secondary schools on a publicly accessible website.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has published a final interpretive rule that changes a rule interpreting the anti-retaliation provision of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 3, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after reports that only 235,000 jobs were added in August, falling nearly 500,000 short of expectations...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 3, 2021
News Release: Today, every Republican Member of the Education and Labor Committee, led by Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), sent a letter to Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) requesting he provide all Members of the Committee with draft text of the reconciliation legislation as soon as possible in advance of next week’s anticipated Budget Resolution markup.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2021
News Release: (Washington, DC) - This morning, Senator Patty Murray, Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement on the Supreme Court declining to block Texas’ SB8, the most extreme and harsh abortion ban in the United States.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2021
There were 28 press releases published by the House Committee on Education and Labor in August 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) led a letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona seeking additional information about the Office for Civil Rights' (OCR) decision to investigate five states that respect parents’ choices on in-school masking.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2021
News Release: CANTON, OH - Responding to a complaint of unsafe working conditions, federal safety inspectors found a Canton automotive steel mill did not install adequate machine guarding, implement lockout/tagout measures or train workers on safety procedures, all of which exposed workers to amputation hazards.
