By DOL Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leaders of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment Greg Murphy (R-NC) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting insight into the federal government’s negligent miscalculation of student loan projections. Taxpayers could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars more than previously expected.
By DOL Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: Today, Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on the impact of COVID-19 on students with disabilities...
By DOL Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: WACO, TX - Moving machine parts have the potential to cause serious or fatal injuries when safety protections and procedures are ignored, and yet a Waco bath and shower manufacturer once again failed to provide its employees a safe and healthful workplace.
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Rick Allen (R-GA) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on lowering the cost of prescription drugs...
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) decision to withdraw a Trump-era rule establishing a worker’s classification as an independent contractor or employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act, affording American workers certainty about their employment status and more opportunities to choose when, where, and how they work...
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT) sent a letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) examine the federal government’s efforts to combat child trafficking.
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: BRADENTON, FL - A federal administrative law judge has determined that a Bradenton behavioral healthcare center and its management company exposed workers to more than 50 attacks in a two-and-a-half-year period when residents kicked, punched, bit, scratched, pulled and used desk scissors as a weapon, and that both entities deserve to be sanctioned for destroying surveillance videos showing this workplace violence.
By DOL Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO - Amid heavy rain and widespread flooding in southwestern Missouri, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges workers and the public at large to avoid hazards they may encounter and learn how to protect themselves as they begin clean-up activities.
By DOL Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after President Biden tapped Richard Cordray as Chief Operating Officer (COO) at the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA)...
By DOL Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Fred Keller (R-PA) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on wage protections under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)...
By DOL Newswire | May 3, 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 in response to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcing last week that it would engage in rulemaking to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) penned a letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona regarding the Department’s refusal to release a report showing taxpayers will be on the hook for the federal government’s disastrous ...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: It’s official: Biden failed to deliver on his promise that schools would, in his first 100 days, fully reopen for in-person learning.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Congressional Democrats’ socialist “infrastructure" schemes include a government takeover of our health care system which could kick Americans out of their private and employer-based health insurance, create socialist drug price controls, increase taxes and Medicare costs, reduce workforce participation, and shrink the number of people financing the Medicare program.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-NC) of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released a Dear Colleague letter to announce the beginning of bipartisan discussions to consider how to better prepare the nation for future public health emergencies in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: BEVERLY HILLS, FL - Dollar Tree store workers across the country continue to face the same hazardous working conditions at the national discount chain as they have for many years. Since 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has inspected company locations more than 300 times.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) urged her colleagues to support the nominations of Jennifer Abruzzo, to be General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and Seema Nanda, to be Solicitor...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK ‒ Every 99 minutes, about one worker suffers fatal injuries and fails to return home safely at their work day’s end. That’s 15 workers a day, 100 a week, more than 5,200 a year - a frightening reality, but one that the nation’s employers can change by following workplace safety and health standards and regulations.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: BOISE, ID ‒ Every 99 minutes, about one worker suffers fatal injuries and fails to return home safely at their work day's end. That's 15 workers a day, 100 a week, more than 5,200 a year - a frightening reality, but one that the nation's employers can change by following workplace safety and health standards and regulations.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA ‒ Every 99 minutes, about one worker suffers fatal injuries and fails to return home safely at their work day’s end. That’s 15 workers a day, 100 a week, more than 5,200 a year - a frightening reality, but one that the nation’s employers can change by following workplace safety and health standards and regulations.
