By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senator Richard Burr, Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) Reauthorization of 2021, a bipartisan bill to keep children across...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 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 Senate Republicans voting to block consideration of the Paycheck Fairness Act, common-sense legislation to help end to the wage gap, and ensure women are paid fairly for their work.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: CAMBRIA, WI - After a worker who was clearing corn debris from an unsafe silo failed to arrive for a regularly scheduled meeting, employees called 911 when they could not find him at the silo, nor reach him by phone. It took emergency services nine hours to recover the body of the 52-year-old manager, found engulfed in the silo operated by Didion Milling Inc. in Cambria.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: DENVER - As work at construction project sites increases in Colorado’s Front Range, more workers may find themselves exposed to falls and trenching and excavation hazards. Over the last two years, at least six workers have suffered fatal falls, and nearly a dozen excavation collapses and trenching incidents have led to the deaths of three workers in Colorado.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Obrascón Huarte Lain North America are collaborating to promote worker safety and health at the South Corridor Rapid Transit project, a 20-mile stretch of existing busway. Joining the effort is the University of South Florida On-Site Safety and Health Consultation Program.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor has scheduled a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health from 1-5 p.m., EDT, June 22, 2021, via teleconference and WebEx.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 2, 2021
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, CT - Two workers at a Bridgeport veterans’ healthcare facility suffered fatal injuries caused by hot steam after a metal fixture on a main steam line blew off. The workers had just finished making repairs to the steam pipe within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System West Haven campus in November 2020.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 2, 2021
News Release: Today, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), the Ranking Member of House Education and Labor Committee, and Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), the Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent a letter to Secretary Cardona requesting an update on the Department of Education’s plan to transition student loan borrowers from the repayment freeze in effect during the COVID-19 pandemic to an active repayment status.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration has reached a settlement with a Fort Myers behavioral healthcare and residential treatment facility to prevent future employee injuries after a series of violent incidents in the spring and fall of 2020.
By DOL Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will participate in virtual listening sessions on June 16, 2021, and July 8, 2021 hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency.
By DOL Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), the Republican Leader of the House Committee on Education and Labor, issued the following statement in response to President Biden’s budget proposal...
By DOL Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), the Republican Leader of the House Committee on Education and Labor, issued the following statement in response to a memo released by Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) Richard Cordray. The guidance suggests that the Department of Education will start sharing borrowers’ private and aggregate data with state and local government agencies.
By DOL Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS), released the following statement on the White House’s newly released budget, which includes historic investments in child care.
By DOL Newswire | May 28, 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 White House’s newly released budget, which would make permanent the health care tax credits Senate Murray worked to pass as part of the American Rescue Plan, which are already lowering health care costs for millions of families.
By DOL Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Biden-Harris administration today submitted to Congress the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2022. As the administration continues to make progress defeating the pandemic and getting our economy back on track, the budget makes historic investments that will help the country build back better and lay the foundation for shared growth and prosperity for decades to come.
By DOL Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: While Democrats’ top-down approach to family leave and child care puts Washington in control of workers’ benefits and permanently cuts paychecks for life, Republicans today unveiled an early draft of the Protecting Worker Paychecks and Family Choice Act that would provide greater flexibility and choice to parents while focusing the greatest benefits on low-wage workers.
By DOL Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, during a hearing, 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 Raj Nayak, to serve as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy, Taryn Mackenzie Williams, to serve...
By DOL Newswire | May 27, 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 Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee hearing on creating employment pathways for dislocated workers...
By DOL Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.)- The most current data reveals that 101,990 students were subjected to seclusion or restraint in the United States during the 2017-18 school year, 78 percent of whom were students with disabilities and disproportionately Black boys. Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ...
By DOL Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh has appointed 15 individuals to serve as members on the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health, which provides advice and assistance to the assistant secretary on occupational safety and health in construction standards.
