By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: ATLANTA - Just weeks after being cited with federal safety violations, Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC have once again exposed workers to unsafe conditions, this time at two store locations in Florida and another in Alabama.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: WATERFORD, OH - With proper training, people working in metal casting facilities know that mixing water and molten material can be a serious, if not deadly mistake, as tragic incidents at two Ohio companies in 2022 showed.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: NASHVILLE, TN - The U.S. Department of Labor has found the U.S. Postal Service exposed workers to struck-by, electrical, crushing, fire and other health hazards at facilities in Columbia, Knoxville and Nashville.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke at the National School Choice Week Rally in Washington, D.C. to highlight the importance of education freedom.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: NASHVILLE, TN - The U.S. Department of Labor has found the U.S. Postal Service exposed workers to struck-by, electrical, crushing, fire and other health hazards at facilities in Columbia, Knoxville and Nashville.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Today, House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), along with Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA), and Agriculture Committee Chair "GT" Thompson (R-PA), introduced H.R. 496, the Promoting Employment and Lifelong Learning (PELL) Act, which expands educational and credentialing opportunities for workers looking to gain skills in high-demand fields.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) welcomed the new and returning Republican Members appointed to serve on the Committee in the 118th Congress.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: WATERFORD, OH ‒ With proper training, people working in metal casting facilities know that mixing water and molten material can be a serious, if not deadly mistake, as tragic incidents at two Ohio companies in 2022 showed.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: It is time to empower parents to become education entrepreneurs-even if it means facing down powerful teachers unions and the bureaucratic education behemoth to do it.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - A Manchester chimney services contractor has paid a total of $26,163 to three workers to resolve allegations that the employer violated the Fair Labor Standards Act’s anti-retaliation provisions enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - In the summer of 2022, onlookers noticed a delivery truck stopped at about 8:15 a.m. one Wednesday morning on the University of Birmingham campus near what would have been the driver's first drop-off. About two hours later, a passerby saw the driver slumped over and unresponsive.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - In the summer of 2022, onlookers noticed a delivery truck stopped at about 8:15 a.m. one Wednesday morning on the University of Birmingham campus near what would have been the driver’s first drop-off. About two hours later, a passerby saw the driver slumped over and unresponsive.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
Supplemental Budget Request (SBR) Opportunity for Additional Administrative Costs under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Program grant opened on Jan. 25.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The newly launched National Database of Childcare Prices, which provides childcare prices in 2,360 U.S. counties, shows that childcare expenses are untenable for families throughout the country and highlights the urgent need for greater federal investments, the U.S. Department of Labor announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: US Department of Labor resumes regular enforcement activities
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: WEST LAFAYETTE, OH - Following yet another inspection - this time at a West Lafayette, Ohio, Dollar General location - federal investigators found one of the nation's largest discount retailers continues to shelve serious safety concerns that expose workers and others to the dangers of blocked emergency exits and electrical panels, and boxes of merchandise stacked at unsafe heights.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, AR - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has determined a Carrollton, Texas, lumber supplier and retailer could have prevented the death of an 18-year-old worker who was struck by a forklift at a Rison, Arkansas, worksite in July 2022 by following federal safety requirements.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
Release: Who: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - An Alabama plastics manufacturing company has pleaded guilty to a willful violation of workplace safety requirements as part of an agreement filed in federal court spurred initially by a U.S. Department of Labor investigation into a 45-year-old worker's death in Helena in August 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - An Alabama plastics manufacturing company has pleaded guilty to a willful violation of workplace safety requirements as part of an agreement filed in federal court spurred initially by a U.S. Department of Labor investigation into a 45-year-old worker’s death in Helena in August 2017.
