By DOL Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: GOLDSBORO, NC - A federal investigation has recovered $157,287 in back wages for 65 workers after finding that a Goldsboro-based restaurant’s pay practices denied the workers their full wages by keeping portions of their earned tips.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (R-MO) issued the following statement after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed that the Biden administration’s rule implementing Democrats’ uncapped handout to multiemployer pension plans will cost $4.5 billion more than CBO’s initial estimate...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) led eight letters to Biden administration agencies that fall under the jurisdiction of the Committee to denounce and call attention to multiple instances of executive overreach.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Subcommittee Republican Leader Michelle Fischbach (R-MN), Agriculture Committee Republican Leader Glenn “GT" Thompson (R-PA), Oversight and Reform Committee Republican Leader James...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2022
News Release: After receiving an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report which found more than a thousand incidents of child abuse, lack of supervision, or unauthorized release at Head Start centers from October 2015 to May 2020, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement and demanded the majority hold an oversight hearing on the reports’ findings...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2022
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Republican Leader Richard Burr (R-NC) sent a letter to Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh expressing concern over the “Workers’ Voice Summit" hosted by the...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh joined other Department of Labor officials to meet with a group of immigrant workers and worker advocates in Washington on Oct. 6, 2022, to discuss the importance of protecting these workers and strengthening relationships among those committed to their well-being.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2022
News Release: APPLETON, WI - Bacilio Rios, an Appleton roofing contractor who has shown callous disregard for employees’ safety and scoffed at federal safety requirements since 2009, now faces $301,512 in penalties after a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspector observed four roofing workers at heights greater than 8 feet without protection to prevent serious or fatal injuries.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2022
News Release: MILLVILLE, NJ - A Pennsylvania-based metal coatings company that enacted a comprehensive safety and health program to protect workers at its corporate headquarters failed to do the same for employees at a manufacturing facility it opened in the fall of 2021 in Millville, a federal workplace safety investigation has found.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2022
News Release: SUFFOLK, VA - A Suffolk construction staffing agency and its owner who intentionally misclassified workers as independent contractors - a serious form of wage theft - must pay $278,073, in back wages and liquidated damages to 208 construction workers following an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement in response to Republican Senators’ new bill that would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s historic Medicare prescription drug negotiation policy.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WV - A Millersburg, Ohio, contractor with a long history of disregarding workplace safety standards now faces more than $1 million in penalties after an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found their employees working at dangerous heights without fall protection, this time at a West Virginia work site.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on the September 2022 Employment Situation Report:
By DOL Newswire | Oct 8, 2022
News Release: IRVING, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration ordered ExxonMobil Corp. to immediately reinstate two employees and pay them more than $800,000 in back wages, interest and compensatory damages. A federal whistleblower investigation found the company terminated them illegally after suspecting them of leaking information to the Wall Street Journal.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a final rule to amend H-2A temporary labor certification regulations to protect agricultural workers better, and to update the H-2A application and temporary labor certification process. The final rule will be published in the Federal Register on Oct. 12, 2022.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Oct. 11.
