By DOL Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO - On July 7, 2020, 35-year-old Timothy Barber collapsed at the end of his shift after working on the Genesee River Bridge Project in Geneseo. Treated for heat stress and heat exhaustion, he died from hyperthermia on his second day on the job.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement in response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) encouraging schools to reopen fully in the fall...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that it will publish a notice in the Federal Register to extend the comment period for the COVID-19 healthcare emergency temporary standard (ETS) to Aug. 20, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges response crews and residents to recognize the hazards created by flooding, power loss, structural damage, fallen trees and storm debris in areas affected by Tropical Storm Elsa.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has revised its National Emphasis Program (NEP) for COVID-19. The agency launched the NEP on March 12, 2021, to focus on companies that put the largest number of workers at serious risk of contracting the coronavirus, ...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Dear Secretary Cardona: We write in support of the U.S. Department of Education’s (“Department") regulatory agenda to provide relief to federal student loan borrowers. As part of the upcoming negotiated rulemaking process, we encourage the Department to pursue policies that reduce disparities in the...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement in response to the Biden Administration’s announcement of its plan to enact new health care protections she and former Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) worked to pass in the No Surprises Act that will prevent patients from receiving surprise bills-exorbitant bills for unexpected out-of-network health care.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Biden administration released an interim final regulation implementing bipartisan legislation passed by Congress last year banning surprise out-of-network medical billing...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
News Release: Today, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) introduced the Supporting Working Mothers Act, which amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to expand access to nursing accommodations in the workplace, without placing one-size-fits-all mandates on all employers.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As people nationwide plan to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration reminds fireworks/pyrotechnics industry employers to protect their workers from hazards in the processes of manufacturing, storing, transporting, displaying and selling fireworks for use at public events.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found that CSX Transportation violated the Federal Railroad Safety Act and demonstrated a pattern of retaliation after firing a worker in December 2019 for reporting safety concerns. OSHA ordered the company to pay $71,976 in back wages, interest, and damages, and $150,000 in punitive damages.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a compliance directive designed to ensure uniform inspection and enforcement procedures for its Emergency Temporary Standard to protect healthcare workers from occupational exposures to COVID-19.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Dear President Biden: We write to request the Administration extend the current pause on federally-held student loan payments, interest, and collections. The relief provided by the current pause has been a financial lifeline to tens of millions of student loan borrowers nationwide. Before we restart...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: MOUNT HOLLY, NJ - Following a coronavirus outbreak in March that led to the deaths of two workers, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that a Mount Holly-based healthcare provider failed to implement a required coronavirus prevention program at two of its locations.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Today, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), and Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA) introduced H.R. 4248, the Workflex in the 21st Century Act, a bill that encourages and allows employers to implement paid leave programs and flexible work arrangements voluntarily without the need for a burdensome and inflexible one-size-fits-all federal mandate.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2021
News Release: ADRIAN, MO - Had MFA Enterprises Inc. - operating as West Central Agri Services - addressed potential dust ignition sources, an explosion that seriously injured an employee and caused the destruction of the main elevator at an Adrian grain loading facility might not have happened. OSHA cited the grain-handling facility for one willful and six serious safety violations, and proposed penalties of $215,525.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2021
News Release: LANSING, MI - After an account manager continually expressed concerns and objections about a proposed accounting practice they believed to be illegal, Equistar Chemicals L.P. in Lansing placed the account manager on a performance improvement program and, ultimately, fired them.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Health, Education, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), along with Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), ...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: PLAINS TOWNSHIP, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit against a Luzerne County paper products manufacturing company and its owner after they fired a worker for raising safety concerns and asking several times for safety gloves to operate a shredder and baler. Prior to the employee suffering injury while operating the machine, their supervisor denied multiple requests for protective equipment.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Today, the House sent S.J. Res. 13 to President Biden’s desk, rolling back an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) conciliation rule that provides transparency and fairness for victims of discrimination and bars the EEOC from reissuing any similar rule in the future.
