By DOL Newswire | May 8, 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, delivered a speech on the Senate floor to commemorate Mother’s Day. In her remarks, Senator Murray shared the stories of women in Washington state as she criticized President Trump’s harmful agenda for women and families and outlined some of her own priorities to move the country forward.
By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, DE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Skanska USA Building Inc. have established a strategic partnership to promote workplace safety during the expansion of the Christiana Care Health System Women’s and Infant Tower Renovation Project in Newark, Delaware.
By DOL Newswire | May 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, spoke on the Senate floor today, chastising Republicans for jamming through Janet Dhillon to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission without a Democratic nominee.
By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KS ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Spirit Aerosystems Inc. - based in Wichita, Kansas - for exposing employees to carcinogen hazards. The company faces penalties of $193,218 for two repeated and four serious violations.
By DOL Newswire | May 7, 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, delivered opening remarks at the Committee’s latest hearing on improving patient and provider access to electronic health records. In her remarks, Senator...
By DOL Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: NAPLES, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Stettinius Construction Inc. for exposing employees to safety hazards after a worker suffered a fatal fall at a worksite in Naples, Florida.
By DOL Newswire | May 6, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited DDG Construction Services Inc. - based in Charlotte, North Carolina - for failing to provide workers with fall protection at a commercial building site in Springfield, Missouri. The company faces proposed penalties of $98,693.
By DOL Newswire | May 6, 2019
News Release: SAN ANGELO, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited 7 S Packing LLC - operating as Texas Packing Company in San Angelo, Texas - for exposing workers to releases of hazardous chemicals. The company faces $615,640 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today announced the availability of $10.5 million in Susan Harwood Training Grants for nonprofit organizations including community and faith-based organizations, employer associations, labor unions, joint labor/management associations, Indian tribes, and colleges and universities.
By DOL Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is partnering with worker safety organizations on #MySafeSummerJob, a social media campaign to educate young workers about safety rights in the workplace, how to speak up about dangerous work conditions, and how to protect themselves on the job.
By DOL Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA), Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, released the following statement in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) release of a final rule designed to obstruct home care workers from directing their own wages to support their union.
By DOL Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: BRAINTREE, MA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Massachusetts Division of Occupational Safety (DOS), YouthBuild Boston, Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, and New England Carpenters Training Fund are partnering to promote the 2019 National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction. The Stand-Down event will be held at the site of an affordable housing construction project in Hyde Park, Massachusetts.
By DOL Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Today, four Democrats and four Republicans on the Committee on Education and Labor introduced legislation to strengthen federal efforts to prevent and treat child abuse. The Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (Stronger CAPTA) is a bold, bipartisan response to combat the rising rates of child maltreatment experienced as the opioid crisis has devastated families and communities across the country.
By DOL Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: BRAINTREE, MA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Consigli Construction are partnering to promote the 2019 National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction. The Stand-Down event will be held at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, May 6, 2019, at Blue Hills Regional High School construction renovation and upgrade project, 800 Randolph Street, in Canton, Massachusetts.
By DOL Newswire | May 2, 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, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s final rule to expand providers’ grounds for refusing patients care on the basis...
By DOL Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House and Senate Democrats introduced the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act -comprehensive legislation to strengthen protections for workers’ right to organize a union and bargain for higher wages, better benefits, and safer working conditions. As wage inequality continues...
By DOL Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: It’s a good time to be an American worker. Job openings and wages are up, unemployment is down, and opportunities are vast. Today at a hearing on the policies and priorities of the Department of Labor (DOL), we got a better look at the American workforce and just how far we as a nation have come.
By DOL Newswire | May 1, 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, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration submitting its legal brief in the Texas v. Azar case in which it argued that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 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, spoke on the Senate floor about her opposition to the nomination of Gordon Hartogensis to lead the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) ahead of the...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: OSHA cited the Merced, California-based manufacturer of polyethylene storage tanks for 10 serious and two willful violations for exposing employees to fall hazards, as well as failing to inspect cranes, provide employees with forklift training, and implement lockout/tagout procedures to prevent amputations. Six of the violations are covered under OSHA’s National Emphasis Program on Amputations.
