By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today proposed a delay in the electronic reporting compliance date of the rule, Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, from July 1, 2017, to Dec. 1, 2017. The proposed delay will allow OSHA an opportunity to further review and consider the rule.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on 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 President Trump moved to restore balance to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The President has nominated Marvin Kaplan and William Emanuel to fill the board’s two vacancies.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Summer has begun and it brings hot weather - and potentially dangerous work conditions. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration reminds employers and workers to take precautions to stay safe before a heatwave begins.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate HELP committee, today delivered the following remarks at a press conference regarding the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) new score for the Senate Republican Trumpcare bill...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the updated Senate Republican Trumpcare plan, which would allow insurance companies to lock patients out from coverage for 6 months if they fail to maintain continuous coverage...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a proposed rule that would modify the agency's recent beryllium standards for the construction and shipyard sectors. Representatives of the shipyards and construction industries, as well as members...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), held a hearing yesterday to examine the shocking and systemic lapses in security and safety surrounding the Job Corps program.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold a stakeholder meeting July 17, 2017, in Washington, D.C., to discuss the future direction of the agency’s Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP). The discussion will include comments and suggestions from the public on potential avenues for action.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Yesterday, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos requesting clarification on her position regarding the rights of students with...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Democrats on the Senate floor to blast Republicans for the secretive process in which they crafted their cruel Trumpcare plan and slammed Senate Republicans...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Glenn “GT" Thompson (R-PA) issued the following statements upon House passage of the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (H.R. 2353 ) this afternoon...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, today issued the following statement in support of the Trump administration’s selection of Dr. A. Wayne Johnson to fill the position of chief operating officer at the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA)...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.)-Today, U.S Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Patty Murray (D-WA) joined with other Senate Democrats to respond to Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune’s (R-SD) comments to his constituents that the secret Republican “working group" on Trumpcare was not actually secret and...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Education’s guidance to implement year-round Pell Grants. As ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee dealing with the U.S. Department of Education, Senator Murray worked to restore year-round Pell Grants in the bipartisan FY17 appropriations bill passed in May.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: On Thursday, June 22, at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will hold a hearing to examine student safety in the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Job Corps program. The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Senate Democrats on the Senate floor to highlight just how “mean" the Republican’s Trumpcare bill would be to working families. Despite celebrating with...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Senate Democrats on the Senate floor to urge Republicans to make their secret Trumpcare bill public and stop trying to jam through the bill without a single...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. -When a Hartford health care facility failed to adequately respond to a tuberculosis exposure in December 2011, its interim senior vice-president for operations, director of nursing and its coordinator of its Healthy Start program actively tried or were associated with efforts to raise...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. - A month after a 33-year-old worker died while working in an unprotected trench, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found another employee of the same Missouri plumbing contractor working in a similarly unprotected trench at another job site.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, hosted a press conference with Katy Neas of Easter Seals, Will Fischer of Vote Vets, and Kathryn Cook, a mother of a child with disabilities in the military to...
