By DOL Newswire | Aug 25, 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), issued the following statement on President Biden’s announcement that the Department of Education will forgive $10,000 in student debt for tens of millions of...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 25, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the Biden administration’s announcement that it is extending the student loan repayment moratorium for a fifth time and forcing taxpayers to pay for certain borrowers to receive $10,000 in loan "forgiveness"...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 25, 2022
News Release: AKRON, OH - A Dundee contractor with a long history of federal workplace safety violations has added an additional $228,126 in fines to $108,318 in unpaid penalties with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for again exposing workers to potential deadly fall hazards, this time at an Akron job site.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 25, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration signed a strategic partnership with Balfour Beatty Construction to promote worker safety and health during construction of the 1018 West Peachtree Project in Atlanta.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 25, 2022
Project to Increase Worker Voice and Address Forced Labor, Child Labor, and Other Labor Violations in Cattle Raising Areas of Brazil and Paraguay grant opened on Aug. 25.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 25, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $3.4 million in funding to help recruit, train and retain more women in quality pre-apprenticeship and Registered Apprenticeship programs, as well as nontraditional occupations.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A federal court has ordered a Pennsylvania mother and daughter to pay more than $2.4 million in overtime back wages and liquidated damages, after a three-day trial confirmed the pair used illegal pay practices to avoid paying full wages to 345 workers who provided daily living assistance and home healthcare in the Pittsburgh area.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: AKRON, OH - A Dundee contractor with a long history of federal workplace safety violations has added an additional $228,126 in fines to $108,318 in unpaid penalties with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for again exposing workers to potential deadly fall hazards, this time at an Akron job site.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Dear Secretary Cardona: Thank you for your continued efforts to improve the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. As you know, the limited PSLF waiver announced last year has already improved the lives of more than 164,0001 public servants who have had their student loans forgiven and 1 million2...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: SUAMICO, WI - On a chilly March morning, a federal workplace safety inspector observed five roofers atop a Wrightstown residence, working at heights up to 23 feet without required fall protection. The inspector later found the fall protection equipment piled in a bucket on the ground next to a work truck.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Education and Labor Committee on Aug. 23.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: SABINE PASS, TX - A federal workplace investigation has found two companies’ failures to follow required safety standards endangered the lives of nine workers who found themselves trapped - nearly 30 stories high - atop a burning jack-up drilling platform decommissioned in the Anchorage Basin near a Sabine Pass shipyard.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: TAMPA, FL - A federal court has ordered Tampa Electric Co. to implement a safety compliance plan audited by an independent third party, pay a $500,000 penalty and be subject to 36 months of probation after Tampa Electric pleaded guilty to willfully violating an OSHA standard, which caused five worker ...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
The US Labor Department published a six page notice on Aug. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $602,745, in overtime back wages for 127 employees of a Woods Cross tile installation company that denied them their full wages and benefits.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Employer name: IV Waste LLC Investigation site: 730 South Pierce St. New Orleans, LA 70119 Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found IV Waste LLC denied overtime wages to 105 employees by paying some a daily rate for hours worked over 40 in a workweek, and ...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, VA - The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to prohibit a federal contractor and its owners from retaliating against former and current employees who cooperate with an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: DUETTE, FL - A federal workplace safety investigation has found a 35-year-old farmworker died from heat illness on a Duette farm in the early evening of April 5, 2022. It was only his second day on the job.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: HONOLULU - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has recovered $28,455 in unpaid overtime wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages from a Big Island nursery and landscaping company after they failed to pay overtime wages to 37 employees.
