By DOL Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued updated guidance to help employers protect workers from the coronavirus. The updated guidance reflects developments in science and data, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's updated COVID-19 guidance issued July 27.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2021
News Release: RAPID CITY, SD ‒ Four days before Christmas in 2020, an excavation company’s owner was fixing an underground sewer line in Rapid City when the trench around him collapsed; his life ended under thousands of pounds of dirt.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: DENVER - A worker at a Denver milk packaging plant operated by Safeway Inc. lost four fingers while operating a molding machine that lacked required safeguards.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Republican Leader of the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Rick Allen (R-GA) submitted a comment letter to Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Director Gordon Hartogensis regarding the interim final rule implementing the taxpayer-funded bailout of failing and insolvent multiemployer pension plans that was included in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: MONTICELLO, IL - A central Illinois grain-handling cooperative exposed workers to serious engulfment hazards when soybeans collapsed inside a Monticello bin and engulfed an employee up to their waist.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) denounced the Department of Education's decision to allow states to interfere in the administration of the federal student loan program...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) slammed the Department of Education for needlessly extending pandemic-era student loan repayment delays...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor encourages the nation's employers to commit to workplace safety and health and join its Occupational Safety and Health Administration in observing Safe + Sound Week, Aug. 9-15, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the passing of Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: (Washington, DC) - This afternoon, Senator Patty Murray, Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), spoke with small business owners representing over 530 small business owners nationwide who have called on Congress to prioritize the urgent call for a comprehensive federal paid family and medical leave program.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration reminds stakeholders that the next meeting of the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health is scheduled from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: LAKEWOOD, NJ - A Central New Jersey medical facility and temporary staffing agency failed to ensure the safety and health of nurses giving flu shots and testing potentially infectious patients for the coronavirus earlier this year, a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation has found.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, at a mark-up, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, advanced four bipartisan bills to help prevent suicide, ensure pregnant workers have reasonable accommodations, and help people with disabilities and older Americans access the assistive technology they need. Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) applauded the Committee for their bipartisan work and highlighted how each bill would support families across the country.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after the New York State Attorney General released a report backing the sexual assault claims made against Governor Andrew Cuomo...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: TAVARES, FL - In the early afternoon of March 2, 2021, a 44-year-old electrical technician at an Orlando work site climbed down into a trench to splice electrical wires to power streetlights. Not long after, the worker made contact with live wires and suffered fatal electrocution, a death the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators deemed avoidable had the employer taken required safety measures.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration collaborated with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to revise a handbook on workplace safety and health information for small business employers.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 2, 2021
News Release: DALLAS ‒ A worker cleaning the inside of a tank trailer in Pasadena in December 2019 fell victim to hazardous vapors, as did a co-worker who attempted rescue. Months later, in August 2020, two cleaning workers entered a natural gas tanker on a railcar in Hugo, Oklahoma and fell victim to its vapors. Four lives were lost in the tank cleaning industry in less than a year - and part of a troubling trend of preventable workplace deaths in the region.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 2, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO ‒ An Ohio worker tasked with cleaning a chemical tanker trailer collapsed upon entering the tank. Answering the employee's call for help, a nearby truck driver entered the tank. Both workers succumbed to fatal toxic fumes.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2021
There were 44 press releases published by the House Committee on Education and Labor in July 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 30, 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 Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Department of Labor Secretary Martin Walsh highlighting the importance of employer-sponsored health ...
