By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - With health care for millions of people, women’s access to reproductive health care, voting rights, workers’ rights, LGBTQ equality, environmental protections, and more on the line, U.S. Senate Assistant Minority Leader Patty Murray (D-WA) delivers the Weekly Democratic Address calling...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: GENOA, IL - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Cleary Pallet Sales Inc., a Genoa, Illinois-based pallet manufacturer, after 10 employees required emergency medical treatment for carbon monoxide exposure. The company faces proposed penalties totaling $216,253.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 5, 2018
News Release: Dear Colleagues: As you know all too well, the Trump-Pence Administration is dedicated to undermining women’s access to basic health care services and rolling back women’s reproductive rights. From efforts to restrict coverage for contraception to efforts to dictate the conversations between women and...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: PORT ST. LUCIE, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Bluewater Construction Solutions Inc. for exposing employees to dangerous falls at two south Florida worksites. The Melbourne, Florida-based residential framing contractor faces proposed penalties of $48,778.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: MIAMI, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Bakery Management Corp., doing business as Bakery Corp., for exposing employees to caught-in, fall, and electrical hazards. The Miami-based commercial bakery faces proposed penalties of $67,261.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: MIAMI, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited BC Direct Corp. - doing business as Robotray - for exposing employees to struck-by, electrical shock, fire, and explosion hazards. The company faces $42,682 in proposed penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: SEMINOLE, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has renewed its alliance with Fehr’s Metal Building Construction to help protect construction workers involved in commercial, industrial, and retail construction throughout West Texas.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced a delay in enforcing certain requirements of the final rule on occupational exposure to beryllium in general industry. These requirements will not be enforced until Aug. 9, 2018.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is confirming the effective date of the direct final rule (DFR) amending the application of the beryllium standard for general industry to materials containing trace amounts of beryllium. The agency received no significant adverse comments on the DFR, therefore, it will become effective on July 6, 2018.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: HURRICANE, WV - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Design Roofing LLC for exposing employees to fall and other safety hazards at residential construction sites in Scott Depot and Culloden, West Virginia. The company faces proposed penalties of $101,988.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statements after the U.S. Department of Education announced a two-year delay of the Equity in IDEA rule.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Dear Mr. Greenwood: I write to you as head of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) with deep concern regarding harassment in the workplace, particularly in light of the recent event sponsored by your member companies associated with the BIO International Convention, that have called into...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Yesterday, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Committee’s executive session to mark-up a package of health and education bills, including: the Carl D. Perkins Career and...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Dear Inspector General Levinson: We write to request a comprehensive review of the operations of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program, particularly focused on how the Office has approached and responded to...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, released the following statement after the Supreme Court issued its ruling in favor of the individual freedom of public sector employees in Janus v. AFSCME today...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
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 Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 to weaken public employee unions’ ability to negotiate with employers for fair pay, safer working conditions, better benefits, and more.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Committee’s hearing on ways to reduce health care costs. In her remarks, Senator Murray underscored the need for immediate action...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., and Bob Casey, D-Pa., along with Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Ranking Member Patty Murray, D-Wash., applauded the committee’s passage of legislation to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education (CTE) Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today signed an alliance agreement with CareerSafe to provide youth, aged 16-24, educators, and administrators with information and resources on the most common hazards encountered by new workers.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is reminding employers that the deadline for electronically submitting their 2017 Form 300A data to OSHA is July 1, 2018.
