By DOL Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Excavation work is among the most dangerous in the construction industry. Trenches can collapse around and atop workers, crushing and burying them quickly and sometimes fatally - which has long made trench and excavation protection a vital concern for the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 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 statements on funding included in the American Rescue Plan to support public health work critical to ending the pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the inclusion of $12.7 billion in funding for home- and community-based services (HCBS) in the American Rescue Plan, to ensure people with disabilities get the care they need during this pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 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 statements on the inclusion of provisions in the American Rescue Plan to help families get quality, affordable health care.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the inclusion of $40 billion in child care relief in the American Rescue Plan (ARP).
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 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 over $125 billion in K-12 funding included in the American Rescue Plan.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the inclusion of $200 million for the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, $200 million for sexual assault programs, and $50 million to support culturally-specific domestic violence and sexual assault programs, in the American Rescue Plan.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statements on the critical funding and support for higher education students, borrowers and institutions included in the American Rescue Plan.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 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 inclusion of the Butch Lewis Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act (BLEPPRA) in the American Rescue Plan.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), continued her fight to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of the American Rescue Plan. In a speech on the Senate floor, Senator Murray urged her colleagues...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement strongly criticizing the Biden administration’s unprecedented firing of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) General Counsel Sharon Fast Gustafson, ending her Senate-confirmed, four-year appointment more than two years early, in contravention of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) and 57 other House Republicans in sending a letter to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), questioning the CDC’s latest guidance on safely reopening K-12 schools.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) penned an exclusive letter to the editor for the Wall Street Journal. The letter denounces Democrats’ most recent attempt to limit educational choices for students and veterans.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: LIMA, OH - While cleaning an auger used to rice potatoes, a 39-year-old production worker found her left arm caught in a running auger. The worker suffered multiple lacerations and the partial amputation of her arm. Co-workers had to cut the auger apart to free her arm.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 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 announcement of the subcommittee assignments.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after President Biden falsely claimed that the latest round of COVID-19 relief funds is necessary to reopen schools...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic partnership with Brasfield & Gorrie, in which the agency and construction management firm will promote worker safety and health at the Grandview Physicians Place II project in Birmingham. The University of Alabama's Safe State program will also support the effort.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Miguel Cardona as President Biden’s Secretary of Education...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced today that it has scheduled the eighth annual National Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction for May 3-7, 2021. OSHA encourages construction employers and other stakeholders to join the event to promote awareness and training to address one of the industry’s most serious dangers.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Two truck drivers for an Oklahoma City roofing and building products company reported to a manager that the tires on a company truck were unsafe. Concerned about their own safety and that of others on the road, the two drivers refused to operate vehicles with unsafe tires. They were terminated in August 2020.
