By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement today following rulings from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (King v. Burwell) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Halbig v. Burwell) regarding the use of tax credits on state-based Health...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-In response to recent workplace trends and supporting research that suggests uncertain work schedules can have broad negative consequences for working families, leading Democratic members of Congress today introduced legislation to stem abusive scheduling practices directed primarily at hourly workers.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: On Wednesday, July 23 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing entitled, “Improving the Federal Wage and Hour Regulatory Structure." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today regarding the news that on Monday, President Obama will sign an Executive Order (EO) banning workplace discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) workers among federal contractors. The EO will also ban discrimination against federal workers on the basis of gender identity.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Bob Casey (D-PA) introduced the Hide No Harm Act of 2014, a bill that would make it a crime for a corporate officer to knowingly conceal the fact that a corporate action or product poses a danger of death or serious physical...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today after Senate Republicans obstructed consideration of theProtect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act, also known as the Not My Boss’s...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), today held a hearing entitled, “Protecting America’s Youth: An Update from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children." During the hearing, Mr. John Ryan, president and chief executive officer of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), discussed the center’s ongoing work to protect children and return victims to their families.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after it was announced Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Director Josh Gotbaum would step down...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2014
News Release: On Tuesday, July 15 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), will hold a hearing entitled, "Protecting America’s Youth: An Update from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Dear Secretary Burwell: As members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, we are writing with concerns and questions about three separate and deeply troubling incidents in which samples of select agents, highly dangerous pathogens, were reportedly improperly handled, ...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today joined Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) to urge Labor Secretary Thomas Perez to reverse the department’s decision to unilaterally extend the Davis-Bacon Act requirements to survey technicians due to inadequate analysis and outreach to industry stakeholders.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: A bipartisan group of House members today introduced legislation that would strengthen support for youth who are victims of sex trafficking. The proposed bills would improve identification and assessment of child sex trafficking victims and enhance existing support for runaway and homeless youth.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Yesterday, the House of Representatives approved the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act by a bipartisan vote of 415-6. When the bill is signed by the President, as he has indicated he will do, fourteen bills in the HELP Committee’s jurisdiction-under the leadership of Chairman...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the results of an undercover investigation into pension advance companies requested by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Ranking...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: The House Education and the Workforce Committee today advanced three bipartisan bills to reform the nation’s higher education system. As part of an effort to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, the legislative proposals will support innovation, strengthen transparency, and enhance financial counseling.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Labor, Education, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today joined Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Al Franken (D-MN) to introduce legislation to curb abuses that deprive employees and...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined his Senate Democratic colleagues in introducing the Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act. The bill would restore the contraceptive coverage requirement...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: Legislation to update the Workforce Investment Act, overdue for reauthorization for more than a decade, is headed to the President’s desk following overwhelming bipartisan support from both houses of Congress. The Senate and House authors of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) applauded ...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: The House of Representatives today considered the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), legislation that will help put Americans back to work by reforming the nation’s outdated workforce development system.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Legislation to update the Workforce Investment Act, overdue for reauthorization for more than a decade, is headed to the President’s desk following overwhelming bipartisan support from both houses of Congress. The Senate and House authors of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act...
