By DOL Newswire | Apr 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a new poster listing steps all workplaces can take to reduce the risk of exposure to coronavirus.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Heaslip Engineering LLC, Citadel Builders LLC, Suncoast Projects LLC - doing business as Hub Steel - and eight subcontractors for safety and health violations at the construction site of a planned Hard Rock hotel in downtown New Orleans. Three workers suffered fatal injuries and 18 other workers suffered serious injuries in a partial building collapse.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: Dear Assistant Secretary Rutledge: I am writing today to request that you quickly exercise your new authority to extend filing deadlines for certain notice and disclosure requirements imposed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Congress amended section 518 of ERISA in the...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In the latest effort to implement President Donald J. Trump's Memorandum on Making General Use Respirators Available, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued interim enforcement guidance regarding disposable N95 filtering facepiece...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: EVANSTON, IL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited three employers - Northwestern University, Hill Mechanical Corp. and National Heat & Power Corp. - for exposing workers to permit-required confined space hazards associated with underground steam vaults. Proposed penalties for the three companies total $235,962.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued interim enforcement guidance to help combat supply shortages of disposable N95 filtering face piece respirators (N95 FFRs). 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 | Apr 2, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Scalia: We write you to raise deep concerns with materials issued by the Department of Labor (DOL) interpreting the paid sick and family leave provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and request you revise them immediately. Several of the statements put forth...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor has selected Amanda Edens as its new deputy assistant secretary for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Edens formerly served as the director of OSHA’s Directorate of Technical Support & Emergency Management (DTSEM) since 2012.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate HELP Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), House Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Senate Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) released a joint statement today condemning President Trump’s decision not to establish a special Affordable Care Act open enrollment period in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: ORLANDO, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Skanska-Granite-Lane - a joint venture operating as SGL Constructors - for exposing employees to safety hazards at the I-4 Ultimate Improvement Project worksite in Orlando, Florida. One worker suffered fatal injuries and another was hospitalized. The contractor faces $53,976 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP, NJ - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited BWay Corp. - doing business as Mauser Packaging Solutions - for workplace safety and health hazards after an employee suffered an amputation on Sept. 26, 2019, at the Lawrence Township, New Jersey, facility. The company faces $151,329 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) urged Secretary DeVos not to release the final Title IX rule while K-12 schools...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: POMPANO BEACH, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Assura Windows and Doors LLC for exposing employees to amputation, noise, struck-by and other safety and health hazards at the Pompano Beach, Florida, manufacturing facility. The window and door manufacturer faces $162,688 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced today that it has postponed the 7th annual National Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction, originally scheduled for May 4-8, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will be rescheduled this summer.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 27, 2020
News Release: Dear Vice President Pence: We are deeply troubled by the Trump Administration’s continued failure to assist states as they face dire shortages of medical supplies necessary to fight the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID- 19). Despite months of warning, it is clear the Trump Administration did not take timely...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 27, 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 about the need to address the multiemployer pension crisis in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 27, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Senate HELP Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senate Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) released a...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 26, 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 regarding steps she pushed for in the new bipartisan coronavirus response package passed by the Senate to increase people’s flexibility to manage their retirement resources.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 26, 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 from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) which forecasts the current trajectory of the COVID-19 outbreak in Washington state and across the country.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 26, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), successfully blocked Republican efforts to give Secretary DeVos a blank check to waive students’ civil rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education...
