By DOL Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: Lawmakers in the House and Senate today introduced the Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity Act, legislation that will ensure the Department of Labor pursues a balanced and responsible approach to updating federal overtime rules. The sponsors of the legislation-members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions-released the following statements upon introduction...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Poultry workers are twice as likely to suffer serious injuries and six times more likely to get sick on the job than other private sector workers, facts that are leading federal safety and health inspectors in three Midwestern states to act to reduce musculoskeletal disorders and ergonomic stressors among at-risk workers.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: Employer name: CS Truck & Trailer Repair Services Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: HILLSBORO, Ohio - For a 26-year-old Ohio construction worker, his new job turned out to be his last. Just a month after starting work for Stauffer Site Services LLC, a nearly 10-foot deep trench collapsed and buried him as he worked installing a sewer line. The man died two days later due to the injuries he suffered.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Wis. - Two to three seconds, that is how quickly flowing grain can trap a worker in a grain storage bin. Sixty seconds later, hundreds of pounds of grain can submerge and smother them. When it happens, more than half the time workers die by suffocation.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - Nebraska workers in the meat processing industry are more likely to be injured on the job, than many others employed in the Husker state. The higher-than-average rate has led the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to launch a new Local Emphasis Program * in the meat processing industry.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 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 HELP Committee markup to consider the Mental Health Reform Act of 2016, a bill that would help expand access to quality, effective...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Employer name: BCS Manufacturing LLC. Inspection site: 4215 Tholozan Ave., St. Louis, Missouri. Citations issued: March 11, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited BCS Manufacturing for 23 serious and three other-than-serious safety...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. - Walmart continues to endanger the safety and health of its employees despite a 2013 corporate-wide settlement agreement* with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to improve safety and health conditions at all of its store locations.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), introduced the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act, legislation to crack down on employers...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today published an interim final rule establishing procedures and time frames for handling employee retaliation complaints under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). OSHA invites the public to submit comments on the interim final rule.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: The Mental Health Reform Act of 2016 will help Americans suffering from mental health and substance use disorders
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: SUPERIOR, Wis. - An 18-year-old man lost his life just three months after starting work for Lunda Construction Company. The carpenter's apprentice was mixing concrete for the Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge resurfacing project when a rough-terrain forklift struck and killed him. The bridge spans St. Louis Bay between Superior and Duluth, Minnesota. Since 2012, three workers have died while working on Lunda highway construction projects.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate voted to confirm Dr. John King’s nomination to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education. In advance of his confirmation vote, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: AVON, Ohio - Each time a worker mounts a scaffold they risk a dangerous fall, the leading causing of death in the construction industry. One in four who died working in the construction industry in 2014 died in a fall.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: EDGERTON, Wis. - Some may argue the belief that the number "13" brings misfortune is just superstition, but there is no doubt that fall safety violations by a Wisconsin roofing contractor found in 13 inspections in 10 years are a tragedy waiting to happen. Falls are a leading cause of death in the construction industry, accounting for nearly 40 percent * of fatalities in 2014.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: WESTBURY, NY - To make ice products at Arctic Glacier U.S.A. Inc.'s Hicksville plant, the company uses large amounts of anhydrous ammonia in the plant's refrigeration system. When working with large amounts of hazardous chemicals such as ammonia, an employer must have a comprehensive and effective program in place for their safe management and the protection of its workers.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee applauded the U.S. Department of Education’s move to help student loan borrowers who have attended a college or university that engaged in deceptive or fraudulent practices.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: March 14, 2016 BOS 2016-036. NEW YORK - JP Morgan Chase Bank terminated a loan delivery operations manager at its Iselin, New Jersey offices illegally after he raised concerns about financial transactions to his superiors, a whistleblower investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: Employer name: ALSS Recycling Inc. Inspection site: 2600 Republic Blvd., Birmingham, Alabama 35203. Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued ALSS Recycling failure-to-abate citations on March 11, including one serious and three other-than-serious...
