By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: The Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing to discuss the importance of Head Start and how to improve the program for current and future generations. Members learned from child development and education experts how quality programs can make a difference for low-income children and what reforms Congress should consider as it works to reauthorize the Head Start Act.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Endicott Clay Products, Endicott, Nebraska
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Proposed penalties: $147,000. Quote: "This trench collapse should have never happened. It is completely inexcusable for an excavation contractor not to provide cave in protection for all employees working in trenches," said Christopher Robinson, director of OSHA's Pittsburgh Area Office. "OSHA will not...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2015
News Release: Proposed penalties: $42,350 for Arthur Funk & Sons Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a hearing on the National Labor Relations Board’s joint-employer decision. In her remarks, Murray explained that while the labor market has changed over the...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: NEW YORK - Vidal Sanchez fell to his death at a Brooklyn work site on April 1, 2015. It should not have happened.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - South Carolina residents - emergency workers, employers and the public - recovering from the impact of Hurricane Joaquin should be aware of the hazards they may encounter and take necessary steps to stay safe, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: Oct. 6, 2015BOS 2015-189. Employer name: Big Lots Stores Inc. Inspection site: 10 Newbury St., Danvers, Mass. 01923. What prompted inspection: An assistant manager was hospitalized after boxes of patio furniture and other stock, weighing up to 53 pounds each, fell and struck him in the store's rear...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - North Carolina residents - emergency workers, employers and the public - from the impact of Hurricane Joaquin should be aware of the hazards they may encounter and take necessary steps to stay safe, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Ambrosia Fragrance LLC, 7 Turner Place, Piscataway, New Jersey.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: MORGANTOWN, Pa. - A 27-year-old furnace worker was killed in an explosion when a boiler lid 20 feet in diameter flew off inside the TIMET titanium manufacturing plant on 900 Hemlock Road in Morgantown. The lid struck Jacob Lopez and injured three other employees in the March 27, 2015, incident.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Tri-State Roofing and Sheet Metal Co., PO Box 1231, Charleston, West Virginia. The inspection site was the State Capitol Complex, Building 3, in Charleston.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: The House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold hearings this week to discuss a number of important issues facing America’s children and workers.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Date of Action: Sept. 29, 2015
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - An employee will receive $100,000 in punitive damages from the owner of a Sandpoint, Idaho, oil change facility who fired the worker for reporting safety violations, disregarding the whistleblower provision of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: CALHOUN, Ga. - A 42-year-old maintenance technician had his left hand injected with fluid from a leaking hydraulic line on a press as he performed maintenance on the machine at Apache Mills Inc. The incident caused the employee's hospitalization and required a surgical shunt to drain fluid and reduce swelling.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on Secretary Arne Duncan’s decision to leave his post at the U.S. Department of Education.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced his plan to step down in December...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 2, 2015
News Release: Dear Leader McConnell, Speaker Boehner, Majority Whip Cornyn, Majority Leader McCarthy, and Chairmen Grassley, Chaffetz, Goodlatte, and Upton...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Enterprise Masonry Corp., 3010 Bellevue Ave., Wilmington, Delaware. The inspection site was The Flats, 4th and Union Street in Wilmington.
