By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing to examine President Biden's “infrastructure" proposals...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, OR ‒ 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: Tonight, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the statement below following President Biden’s Joint Address to Congress...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE ‒ 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: WASHINGTON, DC - Every year on April 28, the U.S. Department of Labor and its Occupational Safety and Health Administration commemorates Workers Memorial Day, when we remember and honor the men and women who have lost their lives on the job. Many of these devastating losses were preventable if standards had been followed, appropriate controls existed and if safety and health programs were a priority.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Committee Democrats postponed this week’s scheduled subcommittee hearing to examine the status of mandating an unnecessary one-size-fits-all ‘emergency’ Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulation on COVID-19 in all workplaces...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, CA ‒ 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: TALLAHASSEE, FL ‒ 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: PEWAUKEE, WI - A worker for Xylem Inc., a water technology company in Pewaukee, suffered an injury when a guardrail loosened and he fell and struck his head on a support beam as he lowered himself into a nearly 30-foot deep water test pit.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) slammed President Biden for his American Families Plan, which allocates trillions of taxpayer dollars to support radical, far left policies that will exacerbate the federal debt and hurt the very people he intends on helping - families and job creators...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: JUNEAU, AK ‒ 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: (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 permanent national paid family and medical leave program included in the American Families Plan, which would provide all workers...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU ‒ 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: LAS VEGAS ‒ 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: (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 President Biden’s proposal to guarantee two years of free community college as part of the American Families Plan. Yesterday, Senator...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX ‒ 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: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a hearing focused on addressing the mental health and substance use disorder crises which have been dramatically worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. In her opening...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Congressman Andy Levin (D-MI), member of the House Education & Labor Committee, and Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) reintroduced legislation...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 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 Congressman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA-03), Chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, released the following statements on President Biden’s American Families...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement slamming President Biden’s Executive Order mandating a $15 minimum wage for federal contractors...
