By DOL Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $6,848,992 in grants to state employment insurance systems in Delaware, Montana and Wyoming to enhance awareness and improve delivery of unemployment insurance benefits to people who face obstacles to access.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: CALUMET CITY, IL - Three times in four months, federal safety inspectors observed workers employed by a Calumet City roofing contractor exposed to deadly fall hazards at job sites in Lake Zurich and Wheeling. In each instance, the company’s foremen on site failed to protect workers from known hazards as they did residential framing work on new homes under construction.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: CALUMET CITY, IL - Three times in four months, federal safety inspectors observed workers employed by a Calumet City roofing contractor exposed to deadly fall hazards at job sites in Lake Zurich and Wheeling. In each instance, the company’s foremen on site failed to protect workers from known hazards as they did residential framing work on new homes under construction.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an incremental award of $2,677,470 to the Texas Workforce Commission to support continued employment and training services for transitioning military service members and their spouses near and at the U.S. Army’s Fort Hood installation.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: Caterpillar of Irving, Texas - one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial vehicles and equipment - operates the foundry, which produces cast iron engine components.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: Tonight, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman’s newest ruling that effectively incapacitates President Biden’s student loan bailout...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: Employer name: Nagase & Co. Ltd., operating as Armada Nutrition LLC
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today recognized 835 employers from around the nation for their commitment to hiring and retaining U.S. military veterans during an online event broadcast from the department’s Washington headquarters.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
News Release: MAPLETON, IL ‒ On June 2, 2022, a 39-year-old employee of a Mapleton foundry fell and was immediately incinerated in an 11-foot-deep pot of molten iron heated to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. A federal investigation determined that, if required safety guards or fall protection had been installed, the 39-year-old employee’s ninth day on the job might not have been their last.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO ‒ With injury rates among the more than 90,000 food production workers in Illinois and Ohio significantly higher than other manufacturing workers, the U.S. Department of Labor has stepped up its outreach and enforcement efforts to reduce workplace hazards and better protect workers in these states.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
News Release: LINCOLN, NE - The U.S. Department of Labor today asked a federal court to issue a nationwide temporary restraining order and injunction against Packers Sanitation Services Inc. LTD - one of the nation’s leading providers of food safety sanitation - to stop the company from illegally employing dozens of minor-aged workers while the department continues its investigation of the company’s labor practices.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
News Release: BRAINTREE, MA - A Quincy-based roofing contractor exposed workers on the roofs of a garage and house in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood to potentially fatal falls from heights between seven and 21 feet, U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO ‒ With injury rates among the more than 90,000 food production workers in Illinois and Ohio significantly higher than other manufacturing workers, the U.S. Department of Labor has stepped up its outreach and enforcement efforts to reduce workplace hazards and better protect workers in these states.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Nov. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2022
National Farmworker Jobs Program Youth Grants grant opened on Nov. 9.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX - The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona has ordered a Phoenix-based provider of non-medical home care services to pay 253 employees a total of $521,905 in back wages and liquidated damages after the U.S. Department of Labor determined the employer willfully denied them overtime pay.
