By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis on raising minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025. The CBO’s report concluded...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: WESTBURY, NY - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Northridge Construction Corp. for willful and serious violations of workplace safety standards at the company's headquarters in East Patchogue, New York. The company faces $224,620 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today on the Department of Education’s final repeal of the “gainful employment" rule. Last year, Secretary DeVos announced the Department...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Dear President Trump: We write with dismay and alarm over the treatment of children arriving in this country in an effort to escape violence and poverty in their home countries. The recent reports of neglect and mistreatment of children at border facilities are truly horrific, and such treatment fundamentally...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: FLORENCE, KY - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered Freight Rite Inc. - based in Florence, Kentucky - to reinstate a truck driver terminated after he refused to operate a commercial motor vehicle in hazardous road conditions caused by inclement...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: GLENDALE HEIGHTS, IL - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Hudapack Metal Treating of Illinois Inc. - based in Glendale Heights, Illinois - for 21 serious health and safety violations. The company faces penalties of $181,662.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Committee’s June markup hearing where it voted to advance several bills, including her Lower Health Care Costs Act. Senator...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor will hold a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH) on July 17-18, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: We write in strong opposition to the proposed rollbacks to the regulations implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex (including, but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, false...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: DALLAS, TX - As temperatures rise in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reminds employers to protect their employees from the dangers of working in hot weather.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, submitted a comment to the Department of Labor urging Secretary Acosta to withdraw the “joint employer" proposal. Under Secretary Acosta’s proposal, corporations...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited the Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc. for exposing employees to workplace safety hazards at the Jacksonville, Florida, zoo. The animal park faces $14,661 in proposed penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee today released the following statement on the Department of Labor’s proposed rule to create a system of duplicative, lower-quality “industry-recognized apprenticeship...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: LAWRENCEVILLE, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Woodgrain Millwork Co. - operating as Woodgrain Distribution Inc. - for exposing employees to chemical and struck-by hazards at the company’s distribution facility in Lawrenceville, Georgia. The company faces $125,466 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
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 Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) led their colleagues in introducing a resolution honoring the 47th Anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: MIAMI, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited GA&L Construction Corp. Inc. and The Rinaldi Group of Florida LLC for failing to protect employees from fall hazards at a construction worksite in Miami, Florida. The two companies face $87,327 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Dodaro: We write to request an examination by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of the response to the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) 2016 Fiduciary Rule (2016 Rule) by the financial services industry and what has occurred since it was overturned. Today marks the one-year anniversary...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: Dear Acting Commissioner Sharpless: We write to recognize the 10-year anniversary of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act and to urge proactive and expedient action to protect kids from dangerous tobacco products. This anniversary offers an important reminder of the serious threat posed...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has signed a two-year alliance with the National Utility Contractors Association of South Florida (NUCA of South Florida) to reduce employee exposure to trenching and excavation hazards. OSHA signed the alliance to coincide with Trench Safety Stand-Down Week, June 17-21, 2019. Learn more about the stand-down.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2019
News Release: CANTON, OH - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Ohio Gratings Inc. - a manufacturer of aluminum, stainless steel, and carbon products based in Canton, Ohio - for exposing employees to respiratory, chemical, and other hazards. OSHA cited the company for 17 serious and five other-than-serious safety and health violations, and faces penalties of $183,748.
