By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee delivered remarks at a Committee hearing on the nomination of Dr. Robert Califf to serve as FDA Commissioner. In her remarks Murray discussed challenges that lay ahead for the FDA, and called for continued progress to strengthen the FDA and improve the health and wellbeing of patients and families across the country.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Employer name: The Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1201 Broad Rock Blvd. in Richmond, Virginia.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, November 18th, at 2:30 p.m., a House and Senate conference committee to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will hold its first meeting in HVC-201 of the Capitol Visitor Center. At the first meeting, members of the conference committee are expected to deliver opening statements.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Clarion Sintered Metals Inc.'s main manufacturing plant is located at 3472 Montmorenci Road in Ridgway, Pennsylvania. This was the inspected worksite, where the company designs, manufactures, machines, cleans and finishes metal parts.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, Nov. 18, the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, chaired by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), will hold a joint hearing titled, “Federal Student Aid: Performance-Based Organization Review." The hearing will take place at 9:00 a.m. in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is seeking public comment on an updated version of its voluntary Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines. First published in 1989, the guidelines are being updated to reflect modern technology and practices.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), along with Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), issued the following joint statement on efforts to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, a challenge to an extreme Texas abortion law that marks the first time the Court has heard an abortion case since 2007.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Nov. 13, 2015 BOS 2015-210. Employer name: Tomra NY Recycling LLC, 31 Opus Blvd., Schenectady, New York 12306. Reason for inspection: A worker at the company's Schenectady recycling facility was operating a baler on May 14, 2015, when he was struck by a forklift that was attempting to pass by. The worker...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), along with Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), issued the following joint statement on efforts to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: TEMPLE, Texas - Twice in 14 months, MooreCo Inc. temporary workers were seriously injured when inadequately guarded machines pulled them in, removing skin from the wrist up to the shoulder in the most recent incident, and from the wrist down in an earlier incident. As a result of the earlier incident, the employee's fingertips were also amputated.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee introduced the Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act of 2015, legislation that would remove barriers and help ensure more students from all walks of life have strong and clear pathways into and through higher education.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A fall from a third-story balcony killed 44-year-old Jorge Carrion Torres as he worked on the exterior of an apartment complex on May 14, 2015. Torres, who had been on the job for one month, was applying stucco underlayment to the balcony walls when the incident occurred. His employer had not installed scaffolding and had not provided Torres or his co-workers with personal fall protection.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: Proposed penalties: $51,590. Quote: "By not providing the proper scaffolding and fall protection, Alberto El Romero is taking unnecessary chances with workers' lives," said Nicholas DeJesse, director of OSHA's Philadelphia Area Office. "Falls are the leading cause of fatalities on construction sites, ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks on the Senate floor objecting to a Republican resolution that supports interfering with a woman’s constitutionally protected right to the full range of reproductive...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: Employers' names: Genesis Today Inc. and Texas Management Division Inc., doing business as TMD Temporaries, in Austin, Texas
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Nov. 9, 2015
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a final rule establishing procedures and time frames for handling employee retaliation complaints under the National Transit Systems Security Act and the Federal Railroad Safety Act. The final rule is effective Nov. 9, 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the American Red Cross today renewed their alliance to continue efforts to reduce workplace incidents and protect workers from hazardous exposures. During this five-year alliance, OSHA and the Red Cross will focus on providing workers and employers with information and training resources on emergency preparedness, disease prevention education and first aid.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: Eileen O'Laughlin, program manager, Georgia Department of Economic Development; Christi Griffin, OSHA's Atlanta-West area director; and Scott Shelar, executive director, Construction Education Foundation of Georgia; and other alliance members signing the renewal agreement.
