By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Hugo's Roofing Contractors Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 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 supporting an amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act that would protect LGBT students from bullying, harassment, and discrimination based...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration updated instructions for conducting inspections and issuing citations related to worker exposures to tuberculosis in healthcare settings. This instruction incorporates guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, "Guidelines...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has scheduled a meeting of the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health July 16, 2015, in Washington, D.C.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has scheduled a meeting of the Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health for Sept. 1-2, 2015, in Tampa, Fla. The Longshoring and Shipyard Work Groups will meet Sept. 1 and the full committee will meet Sept. 2.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Commercial Warehousing Inc. Inspection site: 102 Industrial Boulevard, Winter Haven, Florida 33880. Date citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the employer citations on July 10, 2015. The January 2015 inspection was initiated...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Gateway. Inspection site: 1401 20th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35205. Date citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to the employer on July 10, 2015. The inspection was initiated on Jan. 13, 2015, after the...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - With a history of safety violations dating back 15 years, an El Paso metal stamping plant is no stranger to warnings from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), released the following statement on the House of Representatives passing the 21st Century Cures Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 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, released the following statement on the administration’s definition of a closely-held corporation following the Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: CAROL STREAM, Ill. - An auto parts manufacturer's decision to ignore machine safety procedures led to the loss of a 58-year-old worker's fingertip, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors have determined.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today announced a 60-day temporary enforcement policy of its Confined Spaces in Construction standard, which becomes effective Aug. 3, 2015. The agency is postponing full enforcement of the new standard to Oct. 2, 2015, in response to requests for additional time to train and acquire the equipment necessary to comply with the new standard.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: LA PORTE, Texas - In November 2014, a worker was overcome at a DuPont chemical manufacturing facility when a supply line unexpectedly released more than 20,000 lbs. of methyl mercaptan, a deadly chemical. Three co-workers came to the worker's aid in an attempted rescue, but all four were asphyxiated fatally by the colorless, flammable, and highly toxic gas.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: MOLINE, Ill. - Job reinstatement, back wages and damages are sought for a pipefitter previously employed by John Deere, who was terminated from the Moline facility after reporting unsafe working conditions to the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved the Student Success Act (H.R. 5). Introduced by Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN), the legislation replaces the current K-12 education ...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 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 House passage of partisan legislation to rewrite the No Child Left Behind law. Murray called on House Republicans...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), offered an amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act, the bipartisan bill she worked on with Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to fix the broken No Child Left Behind law, to help...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 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, opposing efforts to amend the Every Child Achieves Act to use federal education funds for private school vouchers. In her speech, Murray...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 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 opening remarks as the Senate began floor consideration of the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA), the bipartisan legislation she worked on with HELP...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2015
News Release: July 6, 2015 BOS 2015-137. NEW YORK - Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in New York has agreed to implement and maintain a comprehensive program to safeguard its employees better against assaults and other on-the-job violence after a patient assaulted a nurse at the Brooklyn facility in...
