By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Chairmen John Kline (R-MN), Paul Ryan (R-WI), and Fred Upton (R-MI) responded to today’s Supreme Court oral arguments in the King v. Burwell case. The chairmen, who attended this morning’s oral arguments, are leading the House Republican working group to develop a plan to replace the president’s health ...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Who: Aurora Office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions held a legislative hearing today to examine H.J. Res 29, a measure to block the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) unprecedented re-write of union election procedures. In December 2014, the NLRB finalized its ambush election rule, which ...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - An employee who raised concerns that a truck driver employed by Core-Mark International of Phoenix had exceeded the legally allowed maximum number of driving hours must be reinstated immediately and paid more than $230,000 in back wages and compensatory damages, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Reps. John Kline (R-MN), Tim Walberg (R-MI), and Phil Roe (R-TN), and U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Tim Scott (R-SC), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Pat Roberts (R-KS), yesterday introduced legislation to provide legal certainty-and eliminate confusion caused by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)-for employers offering employee wellness programs that lower health insurance premiums to reward healthy lifestyle choices.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, March 4 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), will hold a legislative hearing entitled, “H.J. Res. 29, Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Labor Relations Board relating to representation case procedures." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: NEW YORK - All a receptionist at Salon Zoë hair salon wanted to do was make her fellow employees aware of health hazards associated with products containing formaldehyde that were regularly used by haircutters and stylists at the business in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Her employer responded by firing her.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and 36 Democratic Senators wrote a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, encouraging her to further improve women’s access to health care under the Affordable Care Act by instituting a special open enrollment period for women to enroll in health coverage when they find out they are pregnant.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Employer name and location: Seldat Distribution Inc., 15 Thatcher Road, Dayton, New Jersey.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Toledo Refining Company LLC
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: LANSDOWNE, Pa. - Imagine working three-and-a-half stories off the ground with no fall protection and on unsafe scaffolding that could easily topple with one strong wind gust. This reality was frighteningly familiar for employees of JC Stucco and Stone Inc., a Lansdowne masonry contractor, until U.S.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: Employer name: D&J Enterprises, Inc. Inspection site: 2151 Interstate Drive Opelika, Alabama 36801. Date inspection initiated: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated the Jan. 14, 2015 inspection as part of the agency's National Emphasis Program on Trenching and Excavation. Inspection...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2015
News Release: GUNTOWN, Miss. - Raymond Marvin Reece was a husband and father who enjoyed pleasures like family boating trips, camping and stock-car racing. Tragically, the 46-year-old maintenance worker at H.M. Richards Inc. was fatally electrocuted on Oct. 1, 2014, as he disconnected wiring on a saw at the company's temporary facility on Towery Road in Guntown.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 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 Senator floor in response to the Republican attempt to defend corporate interests instead of standing up for workers who want to gain a seat at the bargaining...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Affordable Exteriors Inc., 17118 Harney Street, Omaha, Nebraska
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2015
News Release: ROBERTS, Wis. - Two years after pledging to address health and safety violations in a corporate settlement agreement after workers were exposed to serious machine, fall and respiratory hazards at its facilities around the country, U.S. Minerals Inc. employees in Roberts were faced with the same hazards, a September 2014 U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspection found.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2015
News Release: March 2, 2015 BOS 2015-038. BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Employees at a Wallingford freight shipping terminal faced dangerous chemical, fire and explosion hazards on Oct. 6, 2014, as they tried to contain a highly flammable and explosive chemical spill without proper training and personal protective equipment, ...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold a special meeting of the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health March 31-April 1, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The meeting will consider a draft proposal to revise OSHA's crane operator qualification requirement in the Cranes and Derricks in Construction standard.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal court has ordered that Mike Neri Sewer and Water Contractor of Elk Grove Village no longer engage in trenching, excavation, construction or related work after repeatedly exposing employees to trenching hazards, the U.S. Department of Labor announced. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit issued the order, which also permits the secretary to pursue a collection action against Mr. Neri to recover the $110,440 in penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Affordable Exteriors Inc., 17118 Harney Street, Omaha, Nebraska
