By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 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 criticizing Republicans’ recent COVID-19 proposals for failing to include a requirement the Trump Administration develop, publish, and implement a comprehensive, end-to-end national vaccines plan or ensure a vaccine will be available to patients free of cost.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Today, House Democrats passed H.R. 7027, partisan child care legislation that burdens children's future with debt, ties providers hands with bureaucratic red tape, and fails to offer relief to all providers.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: House Democrats are pushing partisan child care legislation that spends billions of taxpayer dollars recklessly, places more burdensome requirements on child care providers, and denies support for certain eligible providers.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 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 urging Republicans to work with Democrats to address the multiemployer pension crisis in the next COVID-19 response package, after Republicans’ latest set of proposals offered no steps to address this critical issue.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 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 and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, released the following statement on the Republican proposal to condition K-12 funds by requiring schools to operate in-person, and directing federal funding to unaccountable private schools...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 26, 2020
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor Kicks off National Childcare Reopening Tour in Denver, Colorado - Director Laurie Todd-Smith of the U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau traveled to Denver, Colorado, with Senator Cory Gardner and Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump underscoring the importance of childcare as the nation's economy safely reopens.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on safely reopening America's K-12 schools...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), re-introduced the Second Look at Drug Patents Act, legislation to improve the process for challenging sham drug patents which can block cheaper generic drugs from being available to patients and families.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: CLEVELAND, OH - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited healthcare company OHNH EMP LLC for violating respiratory protection standards following an inspection initiated after the company reported the coronavirus-related hospitalization of seven employees.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement in support of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) decision to modernize the standard by which union organizers and members are held accountable for profanity or language that is sexually or racially offensive...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 19, 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 | Jul 17, 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, and 45 of her Democratic Senate colleagues wrote to Vice President Mike Pence, and Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, urging the Trump...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 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 latest report on testing and demographic data associated with COVID-19 which the Trump Administration...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Tina Smith (D-MN), and 11 of their Democratic Senate colleagues submitted a comment letter in response the Department of Labor’s proposed rule that would...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 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 the White House is instructing hospitals to report data to a new system it set up instead of the National...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: DE SOTO, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Triple S Communications Inc. for violations of OSHA's trenching and excavation standards after an employee was fatally injured in a trench collapse at a De Soto, Georgia, worksite. The Moultrie, Georgia, telecommunications installation contractor faces $58,025 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered JHOS Logistics and Transportation Inc. to reinstate an employee terminated for refusing to drive what the employee reasonably believed to be an overweight vehicle at the company's Wilmington, California facility. OSHA also ordered the company to pay more than $190,000 in back wages, $25,000 in punitive damages, $5,000 in compensatory damages and attorney's fees.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: BOYNTON BEACH, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Camaney Services of Central Florida Inc. - based in Lake Worth, Florida - for exposing employees to fall hazards at two worksites in Boynton Beach, Florida. The contractor faces $49,930 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 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, released the following statement on the inadequate Republican proposal to address the current child care crisis. The Back to Work Child Care Grants Act-which...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 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, released the following statement in response to a new report showing that 5.4 million people who lost their jobs lost health care coverage this year from February to May.
