By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Education and the Workforce Committee passed two bills to help empower parents, students, and women: H.R. 734, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023, and H.R. 5, the Parents Bill of Rights Act.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 7 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) issued the following statement after Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz agreed to testify before the committee on Wednesday, March 29...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 8, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page proposed rule on March 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 8, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: US Department of Labor, American Society of Safety Professionals
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Republican Leader Senator John Boozman (R-AR) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack requesting an extension of the review period...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 6 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP), announced Monday that the committee will hold an Executive Session this Wednesday, March 8, at 10:00 a.m. ET to vote on a subpoena for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, followed...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: On Wednesday at 10:15 a.m., the Education and the Workforce Committee will hold a markup to consider two bills: H.R. 734, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 and H.R. 5, the Parents Bill of Rights Act.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: LAFAYETTE, GA - A 21-year-old line operator at a LaFayette, Georgia, insulation manufacturer suffered severe head trauma after being caught in a machine's roller. A U.S. Department of Labor investigation determined that the employer willfully ignored federal workplace safety standards.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: PLOVER, WI ‒ At a Plover, Wisconsin, Del Monte Foods cannery, a 20-year-old seasonal worker suffered a partial amputation of their finger after attempting to unjam an unguarded palletizer machine, a federal workplace safety investigation found.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: PLOVER, WI ‒ At a Plover, Wisconsin, Del Monte Foods cannery, a 20-year-old seasonal worker suffered a partial amputation of their finger after attempting to unjam an unguarded palletizer machine, a federal workplace safety investigation found.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: LAFAYETTE, GA - A 21-year-old line operator at a LaFayette, Georgia, insulation manufacturer suffered severe head trauma after being caught in a machine’s roller. A U.S. Department of Labor investigation determined that the employer willfully ignored federal workplace safety standards.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh joined leaders from North America’s Building Trades Unions, the National Urban League and graduates of pre-apprenticeship programs in construction and construction-related industries to discuss how Registered Apprenticeship programs can train the future workforce to help fill jobs in critical sectors.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and order prohibiting a Somerville, Massachusetts, restaurant and its owner from retaliating against employees who cooperate in the department’s efforts to enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act. Fakhouri Inc. - operating as Sound Bites Café - and Yasser Mirza must also pay $15,000 in punitive damages to the affected current and former employees in connection with the department’s retaliation claim.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: WESTBURY, NY - Federal workplace safety inspectors have cited a thermometer manufacturer for overexposing their employees to mercury at its West Babylon facility.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2023
The House section of the Congressional Record published “REDUCE EXACERBATED INFLATION NEGATIVELY IMPACTING THE NATION ACT” on March 1.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2023
There were eight notices published by the Labor Department in week ending Feb. 25, according to the Federal Register.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2023
The Congressional Record published “Senate” in the Daily Digest section on Feb. 28.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2023
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY - A federal court in Kentucky has sentenced the co-founder of several phony medical clinics in Louisville and Atlanta, who pleaded guilty to one felony count, after the U.S. Department of Labor found the operators collected $258,000 from 15 self-funded healthcare benefit programs for services they never provided.
