By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: ALTAMONT, Ill. - Federal safety and health investigators found Altamont Ambulance Service Inc. failed to follow specific guidelines to protect emergency healthcare workers from exposure to bloodborne pathogens and other hazards while providing patient care.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: July 7, 2016 BOS-2016-107. BUFFALO, N.Y. The death of a Tonawanda Coke Corp. employee who was pulled into the rotating shaft of a coal elevator on Jan. 6, 2016, could have been prevented, an inspection by the Buffalo Area Office of the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce today approved H.R. 5587, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act. Introduced by Reps. Glenn “GT" Thompson (R-PA) and Katherine Clark (D-MA), the legislation reauthorizes and reforms the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical ...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairman of the Senate HELP Committee, received the “Friend Of Education Award" from the National Education Association (NEA) for their bipartisan work on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the landmark K-12 legislation to fix the broken No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary McDonald: We have a responsibility to ensure that our veterans receive the high-quality educational opportunities they have earned. While we commend the progress that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has made in providing consumer protection measures for veterans using the Post-9/11...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: The Walker, Michigan-based company also has stamping facilities in Michigan and Texas. The Kansas City plant was opened in 2014.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and a conferee to the bicameral negotiations on the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), delivered the following remarks at the conference committee’s...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: July 6, 2016 BOS-2016-106. Date of action: May 20, 2016. Type of action: Decision and Order. Names of defendants: Flintlock Construction Services LLC. Background: Flintlock Construction Services LLC of Mamaroneck, New York, was the general contractor for the construction of a 23-story hotel at 325 W.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: On Thursday, July 7 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will consider the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (H.R. 5587). The markup will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: Employer's name: L&M Bag and Supply Company Inc., doing business as L&M Supply Company Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | July 5, 2016
By DOL Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: YORK, Pa. - The sexual assault of a home health care worker has resulted in a willful citation against one of the nation's leading providers of pediatric home health and therapy services for medically frail and chronically ill children, after it failed to protect its employees properly from the dangers of workplace violence.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 1, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary King and Attorney General Lynch...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 1, 2016
News Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration Chippewa Valley Technical College
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Wei-Chuan U.S.A. Inc. Inspection site: 80 Amity St., Jersey City, New Jersey. Citations issued: On June 22, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to Wei-Chuan U.S.A. Inc. for one willful, one repeat and six serious violations.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health will hold a meeting of the Emergency Response and Preparedness Subcommittee on July 12-14, 2016, in Washington, D.C.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Johns Manville. Inspection site: 200 West Industrial Blvd., Cleburne, Texas 76033. Citations issued: June 29, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration began an inspection Feb. 11, 2016, after reports that a machine severed...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In 2015, Congress passed the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act to advance the effectiveness of civil monetary penalties and to maintain their deterrent effect. The new law directs agencies to adjust their penalties for inflation each year using a much more straightforward method than previously available, and requires agencies to publish "catch up" rules this summer to make up for lost time since the last adjustments.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today issued the following joint statement regarding the Departments of Education and Labor’s final regulatory policies to implement the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at a hearing with Secretary of Education John King to discuss ongoing implementation of the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act...
