By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2016
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that its lawsuit against Lear Corp., doing business as Renosol Seating LLC, and three of its managers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama has been resolved. The company manufactures foam seating for the automotive industry. The department and the company have filed a joint motion with the court setting forth the resolution and asking the court to dismiss the case in light of it.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2016
News Release: OAK PARK, Ill. - Less than three weeks after being cited for exposing workers to unsafe trenches, federal investigators saw a Chicago plumbing contractor exposing the same four-man crew to trenching hazards as they worked on sewer and water utilities at two locations in Oak Park on consecutive days in March 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez recently renewed the charter of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health. The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that all advisory committees renew their charters every two years. The new charter will expire two years from Oct. 5, 2016, the charter filing date.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Florida's emergency workers, employers and the public at-large face potentially serious hazards as they begin to recover from Hurricane Matthew, and the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is urging vigilance during the cleanup.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released unemployment data for September 2016...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to add two quantitative fit-testing protocols to the agency's Respiratory Protection Standard. The protocols would apply to employers in the general, shipyard and construction industries.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2016
News Release: Inspection site One Wood Hollow Road
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A Syracuse roofing contractor with a history of safety violations has again exposed its employees to potentially fatal fall hazards at one of its worksites, this time in Camillus.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2016
News Release: The Honorable John King. Secretary of Education. 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W. Washington, DC 20202. Dear Secretary King, The collapse of Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute (“ITT Tech") continues to have a profound impact on the more than 50,000 students who were left in the lurch after the...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2016
News Release: Employer name: U.S. Postal Service, 116 Oak St., Moorhead, Iowa
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - Thirty-six Illinois workers have died on the job since Jan. 1, 2016. An average of one life lost each week in the Prairie State.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | October 5, 2016
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - Feeling the symptoms of heat-related illness, a 24-year-old U.S. Postal Service mail carrier asked her supervisor to be relieved after walking about half-way through her 11-mile delivery route on a hot June day in Des Moines when temperatures exceeded 93 degrees. Investigators from...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter to Soccer United Marketing LLC (SUM) requesting...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: STEVENS POINT, Wis. - An Arpin contractor faces penalties of $93,532 after federal inspectors found the company risked the lives of at least two of its employees as they installed underground water, sanitary and storm sewer utilities in an unprotected 9-foot deep trench at the Stevens Point Sixth Avenue Reconstruction Project.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - A Boise excavation contractor could have prevented the deaths of two workers and serious injuries suffered by a third after a trench collapse if the company had not allowed federal safety standards to be ignored at a Northwest Boise work site in May.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | October 4, 2016
By DOL Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of an ongoing effort to revise provisions in its standards that may be confusing, outdated or unnecessary, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing 18 changes to the agency's recordkeeping, general industry, maritime and construction standards.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Columbia Recycling Corp. Inspection site: 2410 S. Dixie Highway. Dalton, Georgia 30720. Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to Columbia Recycling Corp. for five repeated, three serious and one other-than-serious...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | October 4, 2016
