By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: Dear Secretary Burwell: We are writing to ask that you increase consumer protections for patients seeking coverage for mental health and substance use services and treatments. Under current law, most large and small group and individual health plans are required to provide equal coverage for medical/surgical...
By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: Dear Secretary Duncan: We are writing to request that the U.S. Department of Education use its authority to provide additional support to the 16,000 students whose academic careers were abruptly disrupted by the closure of Corinthian Colleges and to the former students at these schools who were equally...
By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health's Temporary Workers Work Group on May 13, 2015, in Washington, D.C.
By DOL Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez recently appointed six members to serve on the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health.
By DOL Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: Employer name: James Marlowe, doing business as DHC Contracting, Statesboro, Georgia
By DOL Newswire | May 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 HELP Committee hearing on Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: The Role of Consumer Information in College Choice. In her opening statement, Murray highlighted...
By DOL Newswire | May 6, 2015
News Release: After Senate Democrats yesterday blocked a simple up or down vote to override President Obama’s veto of a Congressional Review Act resolution that would stop the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) ambush election rule, House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Senate ...
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: May 5, 2015 BOS 2015-098. Employer name: Pacemaker Steel & Piping Co. Inc., provider of steel, aluminum and other metals and pipe to the construction trade. Inspection site: 501 Main St. Utica, New York 13501. Date inspections initiated: The Syracuse Area Office of the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational...
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: Dear Secretary Burwell: In the 21st century, women should have access to affordable, comprehensive health care services, like birth control, that empower them to make their own health care decisions and provide economic security for their families. By helping women get contraceptive coverage and other...
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 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 Continuing America’s Leadership: Realizing the Promise of Precision Medicine for Patients. In her opening statement, Murray highlighted that it is one of her priorities to work to improve the quality of care for patients, and that supporting precision medicine is a critical part of this effort.
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Sabel Steel Service Inc.
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 2015
News Release: LILBURN, Ga. - Employers who ignore safety in search of profit put their workers at risk. This idea was apparent to safety and health inspectors as they drove by a Bojangles' restaurant under construction in Lilburn in October 2014.
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today is a day like any other. The sun rose. People went to work to build our homes, our businesses and our bridges. By day's end, not all of them will go home. Each year, hundreds of workers die and thousands more suffer serious injuries because they fell and lacked the right safety equipment or knowledge to prevent it. For constructions workers, falls are the leading cause of death.
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Suburban Plastics Co. Inspection site: 1000 Enterprise Drive, Grenada, Mississippi 38901. Date of inspection: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated a follow-up inspection on Jan. 6, 2015. Inspection findings: OSHA issued four safety and health citations, including...
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has entered into an alliance with the National Center for Transgender Equality to provide NCTE affiliates and others with information and resources to help foster safer and more healthful American workplaces.
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, New York - An electric technician at the Republic Steel Corp. steel manufacturing plant in Blasdell was removing wiring from a fan motor in an overhead crane on Oct. 16, 2014, when an ungrounded electrical conductor touched a grounded surface causing an arc flash. The electric technician sustained third degree burns on her hand and first degree burns on her face.
By DOL Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a final rule to increase protections for construction workers in confined spaces.
By DOL Newswire | May 1, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and U.S. Congressman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) introduced the Raise the Wage Act, legislation that would increase the minimum wage to $12 by 2020. The Raise the Wage Act would also index the federal minimum wage to the median wage, and gradually eliminate the subminimum tipped wage. The legislation would raise wages for nearly 38 million American workers.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Cellu Tissue Neenah operating as Clearwater Paper Neenah
By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing to learn about efforts to improve higher education access and completion for low-income and first-generation students. Members discussed possible reforms to existing federal programs and how efforts at the institutional level can positively affect educational outcomes for disadvantaged students.
