By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: DENVER - One worker fell about 65 feet from an improperly elevated scaffold, suffering serious injuries, and a second worker avoided injury at a Denver construction site after three contractors on the job ignored a manufacturer’s safety recommendation not to use their climbing scaffold atop a lifting device, a federal workplace safety investigation has found.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA) released this statement in response to the White House’s summary of the final rule issued by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) implementing the taxpayer-funded bailout of insolvent and failing multiemployer pension plans included in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on July 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on the final rule from the Department of Labor regarding the implementation of the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) program for multiemployer pensions within the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
Release: Employer name: Maw’s CPS SA LLC
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today posted a Frequently Asked Questions document to provide workers experiencing a worksite labor dispute with guidance on how to seek the department’s support for their requests to the Department of Homeland Security for immigration-related prosecutorial discretion.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement blasting the Biden administration’s proposed regulations regarding federal student loans...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: TEMPLE, TX - A federal workplace safety investigation into how an employee suffered serious injuries in January 2022 at a Temple manufacturing facility operated by Carpenter Co. - one of the nation’s largest cushion manufacturers - found the company had not installed adequate machine guards or locking devices on a hot laminating machine to protect workers from unsafe contact with the machine’s operating parts.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - As temperatures and the risk of heat illness rise in Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration reminds employers and workers not to ignore the dangers of working in hot weather - indoors and out. Incorporating water, rest and shade can be the difference between ending the workday safely or suffering serious injuries or worse.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is asking Maine’s building construction industry to participate in a survey to help the agency establish prevailing wage rates, as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA).
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC), introduced a resolution celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Title IX-the landmark statute protecting students from discrimination on the basis of sex or gender.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2022
News Release: TEMPLE, TX - A federal workplace safety investigation into how an employee suffered serious injuries in January 2022 at a Temple manufacturing facility operated by Carpenter Co. - one of the nation’s largest cushion manufacturers - found the company had not installed adequate machine guards or locking devices on a hot laminating machine to protect workers from unsafe contact with the machine’s operating parts.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2022
News Release: DENVER - One worker fell about 65 feet from an improperly elevated scaffold, suffering serious injuries, and a second worker avoided injury at a Denver construction site after three contractors on the job ignored a manufacturer's safety recommendation not to use their climbing scaffold atop a lifting device, a federal workplace safety investigation has found.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2022
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has recovered $123,750 in back wages and liquidated damages for 40 workers of a Hampton Beach clothing retailer after finding the employer paid some employees cash off the books and paid straight time for overtime for hours over 40 in a workweek.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2022
News Release: GREENCASTLE, PA - For the second time in a year, the U.S. Department of Labor has cited a Dollar General store in Greencastle for endangering its workers’ safety and continuing the nationwide discount chain’s long history of federal workplace safety violations and penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
Quality Jobs, Equity, Strategy, and Training (QUEST) Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grants (DWGs) grant opened on July 5.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: GREENCASTLE, PA - For the second time in a year, the U.S. Department of Labor has cited a Dollar General store in Greencastle for endangering its workers’ safety and continuing the nationwide discount chain’s long history of federal workplace safety violations and penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 4, 2022
There were 19 notices published by the Labor Department in June, according to the Federal Register.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 3, 2022
There was activity on two bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on July 1.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 2, 2022
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Republican Leader Richard Burr (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the Biden administration’s final charter school rule which will limit options for students and families...
