By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 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 HELP Committee hearing on Achieving the Promise of Health Information Technology. In her remarks, Murray discussed how a strong health IT infrastructure...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Employer name: VCNA Prairie Inc. operating as Prairie Material, Bridgeview, Illinois
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Hours before the Perkins Loan Program is set to expire, 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 Senate’s failure to move forward on a bipartisan one-year extension...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Maverick Arms Inc. Location: Eagle Pass, Texas. Date citations issued: Sept. 30, 2015. Investigation findings: Maverick Arms Inc. was cited for one willful and 23 serious violations by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration following a planned inspection...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), introduced new legislation to address the challenges women face in accessing retirement security to ensure women can better prepare for retirement. The Women’s Pension Protection...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Stampede Meat Inc., Bridgeview, Illinois
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Employers' names: Corvac Composites LLC and Priority Personnel Inc. in San Marcos, Texas
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: PLAINFIELD, Ill. - Workers separating circuit boards at a Plainfield electronics recycling facility were found to be overexposed to high airborne concentrations of lead and cadmium, putting them at high risk for long-term damage to the central nervous, urinary, blood and reproductive systems.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: PATERSON, N.J. - One of the region's largest commercial laundry companies continues to expose its employees to the same workplace hazards that contributed to the 2011 death of a 24-year-old worker at a Prestige Industries LLC facility in Bay Shore, New York.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Sept. 30, 2015 BOS 2015-183. HARTFORD, Conn. - AmeriGas Propane LP employees at the Southington terminal regularly transfer flammable, liquefied petroleum gas from railcars into 30,000- and 60,000-gallon storage tanks. Once filled, tanker trucks transport the gas elsewhere. An inspection by the Hartford...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Employers' names: Jose Miguel Charles, doing business as Pirul Trim Service, was the subcontractor and employer; and Blazer Building Inc. was the general contractor at an apartment construction site in New Braunfels, Texas.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Sept. 30, 2015 BOS 2015-181. Date of action: Sept. 16, 2015. Type of action: Decision and Order. Name of defendant: Masonry Services Inc. dba MSI / North Eastern Precast LLC. Background: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the two employers in June 2013...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Executive Session, Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) submitted remarks on several bipartisan bills to improve the health and wellbeing of families and communities. The Protecting Our Infants Act, the Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act, and the Improving Regulatory Transparency for New Medical Therapies Act all passed the Committee by voice vote.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today approved a reconciliation proposal introduced pursuant to S. Con. Res. 11, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2016. By repealing the so-called auto-enrollment mandate in the president’s health ...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - The hospitalization of a Hartford worker for acute dehydration and kidney failure due to heat stress should not have happened.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: CANTON, Ohio - A leading supplier of fast food and supermarket chicken is facing more than $1.4 million in fines this year for worker safety and health violations, including several that led a teenaged worker to suffer the amputation of his lower leg.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 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, urging her colleagues to pass a one year extension of the Perkins Loan Program before it expires this week. In her remarks, Murray explained...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlighting that nearly half of private sector workers do not have a retirement plan through their employer, ...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Employer name: K& F Construction Inc., P.O. Box 6013, Martinsburg, West Virginia. The inspected work site was located at Suncrest Village, 100 Townshouse Way, Morgantown, West Virginia.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Kremer's Guns LLC, Celina, Ohio
