By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2022
News Release: LOUISVILLE, CO - An administrative law judge in Denver has affirmed the findings of a U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety investigation that determined a Louisville acute inpatient psychiatric treatment facility exposed direct care employees - such as nurses and mental health technicians - to aggressive patients who regularly assaulted and seriously injured them.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 10.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, NY - A federal investigation has recovered $228,379 in back wages for 260 employees of a Rochester-based home healthcare agency that denied them overtime for hours over 40 in a workweek.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2022
News Release: PARK CITY, UT- A federal whistleblower investigation has found a Shreveport, Louisiana-based provider of helicopter ambulance services retaliated against a pilot in Utah who refused to fly twice in 2021 amid concerns about limited visibility.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2022
Release: Employer: Wooden Shoe Farms Investigation site: 673 North 825 West Blackfoot, ID 83221 Investigation findings: U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found Wooden Shoe Farms underpaid migrant farm workers, and provided unsafe and unhealthy housing with insufficient smoke ...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - An eight-year alliance between the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the American Staffing Association (ASA), established to improve the workplace safety and health of temporary workers, continues to be valuable and productive. OSHA and ASA...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2022
News Release: DENVER - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Ryan Companies, builder of a five-story, 4,000,000-square-foot distribution center in Loveland, have entered into a strategic partnership to promote the safety and health of those working on the project. The Colorado Onsite Health and Safety Consultation Program at Colorado State University is also part of the partnership.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: DENVER - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Ryan Companies, builder of a five-story, 4,000,000-square-foot distribution center in Loveland, have entered into a strategic partnership to promote the safety and health of those working on the project. The Colorado Onsite Health and Safety Consultation Program at Colorado State University is also part of the partnership.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: LOUISVILLE, CO - An administrative law judge in Denver has affirmed the findings of a U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety investigation that determined a Louisville acute inpatient psychiatric treatment facility exposed direct care employees - such as nurses and mental health technicians - to aggressive patients who regularly assaulted and seriously injured them.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 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), issued the following statement on the Inflation Reduction Act’s historic provisions that will lower Americans’ prescription drug costs, empower Medicare to negotiate drug prices, and cap seniors’ out-of-pocket costs for prescriptions at $2000 a year and their insulin at $35 a month.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: (Washington, DC) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), issued the following statement on the measures included in the Inflation Reduction Act to extend the health care tax credits passed in the American Rescue Plan to lower patients’ health care costs and continue lowering the uninsured rate across the country.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 7, 2022
There was activity on four bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on Aug. 5.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 7, 2022
There were six notices published by the Labor Department in week ending July 23, according to the Federal Register.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 6, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on the July 2022 Employment Situation Report:
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), and Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) announced they will introduce the Responsible Education Assistance through Loan (REAL) Reforms Act, a bill that offers commonsense and fiscally responsible reforms to benefit students and borrowers in our country’s federal student loan system.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, TX - A Jacksonville wood crate and pallet manufacturer’s history of workplace safety violations continues after federal inspectors found the company exposed workers to amputation hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Aug. 4.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. Department of Labor has found that the wages of hundreds of painters and drywall workers employed by a Louisiana contractor on construction projects, including work at New Orleans’ Superdome, were tackled for a loss when their employer misclassified the workers as independent contractors, a common industry violation.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - A federal investigation into the bounced payroll checks of 10 construction workers renovating a nursing home in Panama City, Florida, found the employer who issued the bad checks had also denied more than 800 workers overtime wages by misclassifying them as independent contractors.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) introduced the Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act to help ensure women with disabilities-who face discrimination and extra barriers when seeking care-can access reproductive services and get the informed care they need to have control over their own reproductive lives.
