By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: ATLANTA - With a nearly $1 million annual increase in back wages recovered in the Southeast for agricultural industry workers in calendar year 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is continuing its multi-year initiative to educate industry employers about compliance, and workers about their legal protections under federal law.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
Release: Who: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
Release: Employer: ELJ Inc. Investigation site: 133 Batting Cage Trail. Jacksonville, NC 28540. Investigation findings: Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the North Carolina general contractor misclassified its employees as independent contractors and paid straight-time rates for ...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: EL PASO, TX - A federal workplace safety investigation of an El Paso jewelry metal-plating finisher found the company again exposing workers to serious hazards, including willfully failing to protect people working with dangerous acids and other chemicals from potentially permanent eye injuries.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the rescission of the rule “Implementing Legal Requirements Regarding the Equal Opportunity Clause’s Religious Exemption, " in effect since Jan. 8, 2021. The rescission ensures a return to the department’s prior policy and practice in place during ...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
The US Labor Department published a four page rule on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the fate of the (PRO) Union Bosses Act in the 118th Congress...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Biden administration overturned a Trump-era rule protecting opportunities for faith-based contractors to seek federal government contracts...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
News Release: US Department of Labor, McCarthy Building Companies sign alliance
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2023
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a scathing report on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s (PBGC) implementation of the taxpayer-funded bailout of multiemployer pension plans...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: CONCORD, NH - Federal workplace safety inspectors have again cited a Derry contractor for not protecting their employees against potentially lethal falls, this time at worksites in Merrimack and Salem.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced it will publish a final rule to amend how the Adverse Effect Wage Rates for the H-2A program are set to improve the rates’ consistency and accuracy based on the work actually performed by these workers and to better prevent H-2A workers’ employment negatively affecting the wages of U.S. workers in similar positions.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: CONCORD, NH - Federal workplace safety inspectors have again cited a Derry contractor for not protecting their employees against potentially lethal falls, this time at worksites in Merrimack and Salem.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Since 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor has seen a 69 percent increase in children being employed illegally by companies. In the last fiscal year, the department found 835 companies it investigated had employed more than 3,800 children in violation of labor laws. The maximum civil monetary penalty under current law for a child labor violation is $15,138 per child. That’s not high enough to be a deterrent for major profitable companies.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2023
There were two notices published by the Labor Department in week ending Feb. 18, according to the Federal Register.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA), and Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to conduct oversight of the agency’s...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal panel has affirmed that Walmart Inc. violated federal workplace safety standards at its warehouse in Johnstown, New York, when it failed to prevent stored merchandise from falling onto - and seriously injuring - an employee in 2017.
