By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Wegmans Food Markets Inc. bills itself as an industry leader and innovator. However, recurring hazards at its 1500 Brooks Ave. bakery in Rochester - and injuries to two workers - suggest a need for the supermarket chain to address workplace safety for its employees.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing to discuss an issue of growing national concern: campus sexual assault. Members learned about efforts to address sexual assault, as well as how existing federal and state policies affect the ability of colleges and universities to prevent and respond to these crimes.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Thad Steele (left), president of T&T Staff Management Inc., and Diego Alvarado Jr. (right), area director in El Paso for the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, signing the alliance agreement today at the T&T Staff Management's office in El Paso.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Since Jan. 2015, 46 Arkansas workers have lost fingers, toes, hands and legs due to amputations at work. Amputations are debilitating workplace injuries that often happen when workers must operate mechanical machinery without the proper guards or training.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Senior Republican lawmakers today introduced legislation to roll back the National Labor Relations Board’s “joint employer" decision, which the chairmen of the House and Senate labor committees say “threatens to steal the American dream from owners of the nation’s 780,000 franchise businesses and millions of contractors."
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: On Thursday, September 10 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will hold a hearing entitled, “Preventing and Responding to Sexual Assault on College Campuses." The hearing will take place in room 2261 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: CORDOVA, Ill. - A 45-year-old lost part of three fingers when his left hand caught in a table saw at a Cordova company that fabricates reusable shipping containers. Doctors reattached the fingers, but had to amputate the tip of his left middle finger. The employee has been unable to return to work.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - An Upton County oil rig inferno killed family members Arturo Martinez Sr., Arturo Martinez Jr. and Rogelio Salgado in March 2015 as they worked to install a blowout preventer, which seals, controls and monitors a rig.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 7, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) today issued the following joint statement in response to the president’s paid sick leave executive order announcement...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement on President Obama’s Executive Order requiring federal contractors to offer their workers up to seven days of paid sick leave annually.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: DENVER - When an employee of a Utah based company discovered possible evidence of securities fraud, he spoke up about his internal investigations and concerns the company was making false representations to potential clients. The company responded by discharging him.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. - In a three-month period this year, health care workers at Bergen Regional Medical Center LP in Paramus were victims of violent patients in eight incidents, including one in which a nurse suffered a laceration and bruises attempting to stop an attack on a patient.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today released the following statement after informing his constituents he will not seek reelection in 2016...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Employers' names: Hensel Phelps Construction Co. and CVI Development LLC
By DOL Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has awarded $10.5 million in one-year federal safety and health training grants to 80 nonprofit organizations across the nation for education and training programs to help high-risk workers and their employers recognize serious workplace hazards, implement injury prevention measures and understand their rights and responsibilities.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Employer's name: Cavco Industries Inc., in Seguin, Texas
By DOL Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 29-year-old man working at a Brownsville bowling alley died when his shirt collar tangled in a faulty pinsetter, strangling him as the machine twisted the collar tighter.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 2, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Allen Harim Foods LLC, a poultry processing plant located in Harbeson, Del.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: Employer's name: Baze Chemical Inc., headquartered in Odessa, Texas
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Neb. - A Norfolk flooring materials company tried to hide hazardous machines from federal inspectors and threatened to fire employees who complained about unsafe working conditions during an investigation into why a 65-year-old temporary worker suffered the amputation of one finger and severe damage to another when his left hand was caught as he operated a machine.
