
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2022
News Release: Dear Mr. Hunter: Over the past several years, a series of reports have raised concerns about the conditions that children and youth experience in residential treatment facilities (RTFs).[1] While estimates vary, thousands of children and youth in the United States are placed in these facilities for...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on July 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on July 25.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Labor Department Secretary Marty Walsh regarding ignored requests for Labor Department Chief of Staff Daniel Koh’s calendar...

By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 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), sought unanimous consent to pass her bill with Senators Tina Smith (D-MN) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to protect and expand access to family planning services-but Republican Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) blocked the legislation.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
There was activity on four bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on July 21.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
Support for States to Resolve Outstanding Items from the Expired Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Unemployment Compensation (UC) Programs, Including Additional Funding to Assist States with Reporting and Detection and Recovery of grant opened on July 22.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
There was activity on six bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on July 21.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: ORLANDO, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed $330,446 in penalties to a Family Dollar store in Orlando after an investigation into a fatal shoplifting incident uncovered willful and repeat safety violations.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $9,122,164 in equity grants to Rhode Island and Wisconsin’s state employment insurance systems to enhance awareness and improve delivery of unemployment insurance services to people who face obstacles to access.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: NEW BERN, NC - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has recovered $56,900 for 31 assistant general managers employed by the operator of six Taco Bell franchise locations in North Carolina who shortchanged them by incorrectly denying them overtime wages.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS, MT - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has certified Team Inc., which performs nondestructive testing at the Phillips 66 Refinery in Billings, as a "Star" employer in the agency's Voluntary Protection Programs.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on July 20.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is asking Nevada’s highway construction industry to participate in a survey to help the agency establish prevailing wage rates, as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: Today, Workforce Protections Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on H2 visa programs...

By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: Dear Secretary Becerra:. The United States is reporting a historically high number of monkeypox cases with over 1,970 cases confirmed in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.[1] As I have raised on multiple calls with the Administration, I am concerned with the state of the U.S. response...

By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on July 20.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
There are three releases scheduled to be published on July 22.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 20, 2022
There was activity on two bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on July 19.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 20, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led a group of their Democratic colleagues in introducing the Expanding Access to Family Planning Act. The...