By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: RAYMOND, NE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited a Nebraska grain-handling cooperative for failing to protect workers from grain bin entrapment and engulfment hazards. The company faces $373,911 in proposed penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: BELLEVUE, NE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Bimbo Bakeries USA for exposing workers to multiple hazards at its Bellevue commercial bakery. The company faces $122,625 in proposed penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: ROLLA, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Anderson Foot and Ankle Clinic for potentially exposing employees to infectious materials, and for violations of the hazard communication standard. The agency proposed penalties totaling $93,074.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS, MT - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited a Billings general contractor and a Rock Springs, Wyoming, subcontractor for exposing workers to numerous safety hazards, causing an employee to suffer severe burns. The companies face $249,516 in proposed penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Committee Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, issued the following joint statement after the Senate voted to confirm Peter Robb as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has resumed normal enforcement throughout most of Florida and Georgia. The agency had ceased most programmed enforcement actions following Hurricane Irma.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: BUFORD, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Elringklinger USA Inc. for exposing workers to electrical, fall, and noise hazards. Proposed penalties total $308,906.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: The House of Representatives today passed the Save Local Business Act (H.R. 3441) to clarify what constitutes a “joint employer" under federal labor law. Introduced by Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL), chairman of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, the bill rolls back the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) vague and expansive joint employer standard and provides certainty for local businesses and their employees. The bill passed by a bipartisan vote of 242 to 181.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today called on Health and Human Services (HHS) Acting Secretary Eric Hargan to provide details about the department's decision to waste $1.1 million in an effort to sabotage open enrollment.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: On November 8 at 10:30 a.m., the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development will hold a joint subcommittee hearing on "Close to Home: How Opioids are Impacting Communities". The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
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, issued the following statement on Secretary of Energy Rick Perry’s suggestion that electricity might help prevent sexual assault.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration filing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Jane Doe. More HERE.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Dear Dr. Fitzgerald: Earlier this year, we wrote to request information on your agency’s pandemic flu preparedness plans. We have not yet received a response to our letter, which leaves us unable to assess whether the federal government is in fact prepared to respond in the case of a pandemic flu outbreak.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - As Alexander-Murray continues to rack up endorsements across the political spectrum, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today called again on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to allow the bipartisan health care legislation to come up for a vote in the U.S. Senate without further delay.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the final rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) drastically reducing resources for the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) 340B drug pricing program.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement on the introduction of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act-historic legislation to reform America’s tax code...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently established a two-year alliance with the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to improve awareness of occupational hazards from traditional industrial robots and emerging robot technologies.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: NEW ALBANY, MS - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Custom Nonwoven Inc., a subsidiary of Korea Synthetic Fiber, for willfully exposing its workers to multiple hazards. The New Albany-based company faces penalties of $220,544.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary Shulkin: We write to thank you for listening to veterans and rescinding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) previous proposal to gut a decades-old law designed to prevent conflicts of interest with VA employees who have a financial relationship with for-profit colleges. We urge...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate HELP committee, helped lead Senate Democrats in highlighting the first day of open enrollment and President Trump’s ongoing efforts to sabotage health care for millions of Americans, including his efforts to undermine community outreach prior to the start of the open enrollment period to purchase coverage beginning today, November 1.
