By DOL Newswire | Jun 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a Committee hearing examining the policies and priorities of the Department of Health and Human Services...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Education and Labor Committee Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and the leader of the Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) are urging the U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to show progress in fighting the China threat on college and university campuses.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 16, 2021
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Falls are the leading cause of fatalities in construction, a fact sadly illustrated by the death of a 21-year-old laborer, who fell nearly 50 feet as he installed a supported tubular welded frame scaffold during construction of a seven-story Brooklyn building.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 15, 2021
News Release: BISMARCK, ND - Spurred by its significant population growth in the past decade, North Dakota experienced the nation's largest increase in housing units - nearly 20 percent - over the same period. As the demand for new homes brings more jobs and construction projects to the state, employers must be vigilant in protecting workers from hazards on construction work sites.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 15, 2021
News Release: SAN MARCOS, TX - Previous inspections by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration have given the operators of a family owned tortilla factory south of Austin every opportunity to resolve its safety issues. Yet, OSHA has found the company still exposing workers to the risks of amputation and other serious injuries.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 15, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee Greg Murphy (R-NC) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing on examining successful models for workforce reentry for ex-offenders.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 15, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the owner-operator of four Rhode Island medical facilities for failing to protect workers from exposure to the coronavirus and implement proper safety measures after six employees tested positive for the virus in the fall of 2020.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 15, 2021
News Release: Today, House Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Acting Director Shalanda Young and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Acting Director Kathleen McGettigan regarding the Biden administration’s use of ethics waivers to bring union influence into the federal bureaucracy.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO ‒ Nearly one in 10 people endure noise levels at work loud enough to cause hearing loss while seven in 10 experience moderately loud noise levels, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Yet, the bureau's Occupational Requirements Survey, published in 2019, found that more than half of the nation's manufacturing workers reported not using personal protective equipment to protect their hearing.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS, MT - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has named the American Society of Safety Professionals' Big Sky Chapter an OSHA Alliance Program Ambassador in recognition of its partnership with OSHA and commitment to addressing workplace safety and health hazards in Montana.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee advanced the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) Reauthorization of 2021-introduced by HELP Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-NC)-by voice vote. At the committee mark-up, ...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Today, Representative Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services hearing on ending child hunger...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) criticized the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for burdening health care facilities with a permanent pandemic regulation...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has announced it will issue an emergency temporary standard to protect healthcare workers from contracting coronavirus. The standard focuses on healthcare workers most likely to have contact with someone infected with the virus. OSHA announced the new standard alongside new general industry guidance, both of which are aligned with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 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 Department of Labor (DOL) announcing that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will issue a COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for health care workers and revised guidance for all workers at risk from COVID-19.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: EATONTOWN, NJ - An Eatontown manufacturer failed to protect employees adequately from workplace exposure to coronavirus, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration determined, after an investigation into the deaths of two workers and the hospitalization of two others who contracted the coronavirus in the fall of 2020.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.)-Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, objected to Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) attempt to pass the misleadingly named Working Families Flexibility Act, which would fail to provide workers with comprehensive paid...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Today, House Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Committee on Ways and Means Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-Texas), and House Committee on the Budget Ranking Member Jason Smith (R-Mo.) ...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a Committee hearing examining the policies and priorities of the Department of Labor...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 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, urged her colleagues to support the nominations of Dawn O’Connell to serve as Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human...
