By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Led by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), today 23 Senate Democrats reintroduced the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act, legislation to classify “conversion therapy" as...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers' Memorial Day on April 28 by holding various events throughout the country.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers' Memorial Day on April 28 at 3 p.m. CDT by participating in a memorial at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 429 in Nashville, Tennessee.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers' Memorial Day on April 28 by participating in an observance in Lancaster, Kentucky.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD, Ill. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers' Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers' Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers' Memorial Day on April 28 by participating in four separate commemorative events throughout Florida.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers' Memorial Day on April 28 at 9 a.m. CDT by participating in a training event at the Alabama Workforce Training Facility in Birmingham, Alabama.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: This week, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will mark up H.R. 1180, the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2017. The committee will also hold a hearing to examine ways to strengthen accountability in higher education by improving the accreditation system. Both the markup and hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An administrative law judge with the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has ruled that two Massachusetts contractors - A.C. Castle Construction Co. Inc. and Daryl Provencher, doing business as Provencher Home Improvements - were operating as a single employer at a Wenham worksite when three employees were injured in October 2014.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement urging President Trump’s FDA Nominee, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, to provide answers to follow-up questions Senators submitted following his nomination hearing, held April 5th.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 17, 2017
News Release: Republican members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), are urging the Department of Labor (DOL) to further delay implementation of the fiduciary rule, which would force low- and middle-income families to pay more for retirement advice and make it harder for small businesses to offer their workers retirement options.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 14, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL) issued the following statements after President Trump signed H. J. Res 67 into law. The resolution closes one of two regulatory loopholes that would allow states and localities to force private-sector workers into government-run IRAs without consumer protections provided by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, April 14 - The leaders of the Senate and House health committees today released a discussion draft of bipartisan legislation reauthorizing the Food and Drug Administration user fee agreements.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate health committee, issued the following statement on President Trump’s comments seeking to undermine and damage our health care system by withholding payments to insurers...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement on the Secretary of Education’s decision to halt Obama-era reforms that included new consumer protections for borrowers and improvements to the quality of federal loan servicing.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Robert Higgins and Kelvin Mattocks died on Oct. 21, 2016, in Boston, when the approximately 12-foot deep trench in which they were working collapsed, breaking an adjacent fire hydrant supply line and filling the trench with water in a matter of seconds.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Fatalities among workers in the landscaping industry are a growing concern in the Southeast. From 2012 to 2016, 64 people employed in the industry in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi died as a result of workplace injuries. In Florida, industry fatalities have nearly tripled since 2012.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a delay in enforcement of the crystalline silica standard that applies to the construction industry to conduct additional outreach and provide educational materials and guidance for employers.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We write with great concern over the U.S. Department of Education’s (“Department") lack of consistent, transparent, and fair treatment of student loan borrowers participating in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (“PSLF") program. Our nation’s student loan borrowers who uphold...
