By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Dr. Miguel Cardona to serve as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education by a bipartisan vote of 64-33. In remarks on the Senate floor, Senator Patty Murray, Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 27, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Democrats passed their partisan budget reconciliation scheme, squandering $1.9 trillion while only allocating nine percent to support COVID-19 related public health initiatives...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: CANTON, OH - Three stories above ground, five workers moved unsteadily atop a Canton apartment building, all of them at risk of a serious or fatal fall because, once again, their employer failed to ensure they used required safety equipment to protect them from falling. Ivan Lowky - their employer - was also working on the roof without necessary fall protection despite having the equipment available.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee Republican Leader Russ Fulcher (R-ID) sent a letter to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte Burrows requesting information about her questionable and rushed decision to end the Commission’s successful mediation and conciliation pilot programs.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: WEST FARMINGTON, OH - A 14-year-old boy working on the roof of a Berea townhome without required fall protection suffered critical injuries when he fell 20-feet to the ground. Immediately following this serious incident, the company's owner and three other workers put on personal fall arrest equipment...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD - To combat the dangers workers face in trenching operations, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the South Dakota State University Engineering Extension Program and the South Dakota One Call Notification Board signed an alliance on Feb. 19, 2021, to train workers on excavation hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the House Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (R-IN) introduced an amendment to apply the Hyde Amendment to the entire $1.9 trillion ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding the Senate Parliamentarian’s decision to exclude a radical provision mandating a federal wage hike from the Democrats’ budget reconciliation scheme...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 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 the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) requesting information on how states are helping school districts reopen schools, including the monitoring of COVID-19 aid expenditures.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 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 Senate Parliamentarian’s announcement that the $15 minimum wage provision is not appropriate for inclusion in President Biden’s reconciliation package, the American Rescue Package.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic partnership with Brasfield & Gorrie to promote worker safety and health at the Baptist Health Care Corp.'s Brent Lane Hospital project in Pensacola. The University of South Florida On-Site Safety and Health Consultation Program will also support this effort.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 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 and confirm Dr. Vivek Murthy, nominee for Surgeon General, and Dr. Rachel Levine, nominee for Assistant Secretary for Health, in order...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Today, the House passed H.R. 5, the so called ‘Equality’ Act, a partisan ploy that undermines the constitutional religious freedoms guaranteed to all Americans.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Workforce Leaders Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Fred Keller (R-PA) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Labor Al Stewart requesting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) give businesses and workers the formal opportunity to provide input before ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Despite CDC research concluding that schools can reopen with proper safety measures, the lights are still off in too many schools across America.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 23, 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 and confirm Attorney General Xavier Becerra, nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in order to ensure the Biden...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: GRANDVIEW, MO - Two machine operators at a Grandview auto parts manufacturer who jointly operated a press tested positive for the coronavirus just two days apart, in late August 2020. The two workers typically labored for hours at a time less than two feet apart; neither wore a protective facial mask...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.)-Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (VA-03), House Committee on Education and Labor, released the following statement on the importance of statewide assessments. Statewide data is valuable because it offers valid, reliable, and comparable measures of student achievement so parents know if their children are learning.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Consulate General of Ecuador in Chicago have signed a two-year alliance to promote workplace safety and health, and share information on U.S. laws and standards, including those relating to workers’ rights and employers’ responsibilities under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Alliance participants will meet at least three times annually to track and share information.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 22, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Department of Education announced 2020-2021 testing and accountability requirements under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)...
