By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent letters to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia, and Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar reminding them to comply...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Representative Ben Cline (R-VA), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services, sent a letter to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Janet Dhillon praising EEOC’s proposed ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the incoming Biden Administration announcing the members of its COVID-19 Advisory Board. Senator Murray has repeatedly...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued guidance and an accompanying one-pager to help employers understand which standards are most frequently cited during coronavirus-related inspections. OSHA based these documents on data from...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 4, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has resumed normal enforcement operations in the coastal counties of Alabama and the westernmost portion of the Florida panhandle following Hurricane Sally.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued respiratory protection guidance focused on protecting workers in nursing homes, assisted living and other long-term care facilities (LTCFs) from occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2, the virus...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Dear Vice President Pence: I write to you regarding a concerning new report of White House interference with decision making at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surrounding the appropriate handling of migrant children being detained by the Trump Administration. This follows a previous...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Workforce Leaders on the Education and Labor Committee, Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Tim Walberg (R-MI), released the following statement after the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule clarifying fiduciary responsibilities in selecting investments for retirement savers involving non-financial objectives such as environmental, social, and governance goals...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: DALLAS, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) urges response crews and residents in areas affected by Hurricane Zeta to be aware of hazards created by flooding, power loss, structural damage, fallen trees and storm debris.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), along with 19 Republican Members from the Education and Labor Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Eugene Scalia commending DOL’s efforts to clarify the standard for determining whether an individual is classified as an independent contractor or employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We write to ask that you take immediate steps to support federal student loan borrowers who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and recent administrative action to extend it are automatically providing...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to reporting that lawyers have still been unable to track down the parents of 545 children who were separated by the Trump Administration in 2017 under the pilot program of its family separation policy.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement today after U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released a report examining foreign influence on American higher education...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on how N95 respirators effectively protect wearers from coronavirus exposure.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: SUGAR HILL, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has signed a strategic partnership with Choate Construction Co. and the Associated General Contractors of Georgia to promote worker safety and health at the Dogwood Forest at Sugar Hill project site in Sugar Hill, Georgia. The Georgia Institute of Technology-Onsite Safety and Health Consultation Program will also support this effort.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK, NY - The U.S. Department of Labor has executed a region wide corporate settlement agreement with Target Corp. to correct exit access and storage hazards and enhance worker safety at about 200 of the retailer's stores in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 18, 2020
News Release: * Atlanta Condominium Management Company Pays Back Wages to Employee Denied Paid Sick Leave to Care for Child after Daycare Closed Due to Coronavirus Pandemic - A condominium company - based in Atlanta, Georgia - has paid $1,153 in back wages to an employee after wrongly denied emergency paid sick leave to the employee, who was unable to work while caring for a child when the family’s day care facility closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
