By DOL Newswire | Oct 16, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. 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 recently released 2017-2018 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), a survey of K-12 public schools carried out by the Department of Education each year.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 16, 2020
News Release: Dear Vice President Pence: I write to express concern regarding recent reports of your Administration’s continued interference with the decision making of public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for political reasons. The Trump Administration’s repeated political...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined by Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), sent a l etter urging Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Labor Scalia Highlights Workforce Development And Economic Recovery During Visit to Miami, Florida - U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia traveled to Miami, Florida, where he visited Miami Dade College's Medical Campus and participated in a roundtable conversation with college leadership...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, launched the Save Our Science (SOS) Political Interference Tracker, a page that details the many reports of Trump Administration officials interfering in the work of public health experts and scientists on the frontlines of the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) urges response crews and residents in areas affected by Hurricane Delta to be aware of hazards created by flooding, power loss, structural damage, fallen trees, and storm debris.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered CSX Transportation Inc. - headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida - to reinstate and pay more than $95,000 in back wages to an employee terminated by the company for reporting an unsafe customer...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 9, 2020
News Release: Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement in support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement to extend nationwide school nutrition program waivers through the end of the 2020-2021 academic year...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, encouraged disability advocates to keep up the fight to slow and stop the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court-and highlighted how Senate Republicans’ singular focus on their rushed confirmation process would harm the disability community and impact their access to affordable health care.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: * Sleep Product Manufacturer Pays Back Wages to Tennessee Employee Wrongly Denied Paid Sick Leave After Coronavirus Diagnosis - A Columbus, Ohio-based sleep product manufacturer has paid $868 in back wages after wrongly denying emergency paid sick leave to an employee at its Gallatin, Tennessee, location who self-quarantined after receiving a coronavirus diagnosis.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued temporary guidance for enforcing initial and annual fit-testing requirements related to tight-fitting powered air-purifying respirators. The action marks the Department’s latest step to ensure the availability of respirators and follows President Donald J. Trump’s Memorandum on Making General Use Respirators Available.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Dear Acting Assistant Secretary Wilson: We write to express our opposition to the Department of Labor’s (the Department) proposal regarding a fiduciary’s duties as they relate to proxy voting and shareholder rights in plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).[1] ...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement today after Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats passed a $2.2 trillion-dollar socialist wish list riddled with radical left priorities...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - This week, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 18 of her Democratic Senate colleagues, introduced the Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act (PHISLA). The legislation would establish a new...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to news that President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, signed onto a letter calling to “put an end to the barbaric legacy of Roe. V. Wade."
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the Committee on Education and Labor, issued the following statement on the China Task Force’s release of a detailed report highlighting the generational threat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published additional frequently asked questions and answers (FAQs) regarding the need to report employees’ in-patient hospitalizations and fatalities resulting from work-related cases of the coronavirus.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, released a 44-page report, “COVID-19 & Achieving Health Equity: Congressional Action is Necessary to Address Racism and Inequality in the U.S. Health Care System," ...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the American Chemistry Council (ACC) have renewed an alliance to protect the safety and health of workers handling diisocyanates, a compound used to make polyurethane.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Workforce Leaders on the Education and Labor Committee, Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Tim Walberg (R-MI), applauded the Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed rule to increase financial accountability and transparency for labor unions...
