By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding the U.S. economy shrinking for a second consecutive quarter and the country jumping headfirst into a recession...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on July 27.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a full committee markup of legislation being rushed through Congress that will tie the hands of job creators and schools with more one-size-fits-all mandates...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 6929, a taxpayer-funded bailout for an underfunded, privately-run pension plan...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page proposed rule on July 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2022
News Release: APPLETON, WI - Despite the potentially deadly consequences of its actions, an Appleton contractor allowed three roofers to work at heights up to 18 feet without anchoring their fall protection, making it useless in preventing serious or fatal injuries.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on July 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2022
News Release: Today, the House passed H.R. 6929, the Susan Muffley Act of 2022, which will force taxpayers to bail out Delphi’s underfunded, privately-run pension plans.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Committee passed legislation that would mandate an overly prescriptive heat standard and add layers of burdensome regulations to our school nutrition programs...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Education and Labor Committee on July 27.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2022
News Release: Participant: Veolia ES Technical Solutions LLC, Charlestown, Massachusetts
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding President Biden’s nomination of Jessica Looman to serve as head of the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD)...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2022
News Release: DAVIE, FL - In 2018, federal workplace safety investigators cited a Pompano Beach roofing contractor who exposed its workers to the construction industry’s most lethal hazard, falls from elevation. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration determined that the company’s failure to heed that warning claimed the life of a 25-year-old worker in February 2022.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
There was activity on 10 bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on July 26.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: HAVELOCK, NC - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $268,014 in back wages for 63 workers of a Reston, Virginia, technical and engineering contractor who denied them a portion of their wages and benefits while they worked on a Department of Defense project in Havelock.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration today announced a proposed amendment to the Class Prohibited Transaction Exemption 84-14, also known as the Qualified Professional Asset Manager Exemption, to ensure the exemption continues to protect plans, participants and beneficiaries, individual retirement account owners and their interests.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) announced their effort to pass the Right to Contraception Act this week in the Senate, following passage of companion legislation in the House of Representatives last week-despite nearly the entire House Republican caucus voting against the bill.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor to warn about severely underfunded pension programs and that relying on taxpayers for bailouts is not a solution...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: US Department of Labor renews 'Star Level' designation of Veolia ES Technical Solutions LLC
By DOL Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found that a Newark subcontractor denied eight electricians their full wages and benefits for their work on a federally funded residential construction project in Plainfield by incorrectly identifying and paying them as laborers.
