By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $43,268,819 in grants to organizations in 11 states in the initial round of grant funding to support programs that provide job training and supportive services to justice-involved young people.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: Today, Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee Republican Leader Russ Fulcher (R-ID) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on examining the policies and priorities of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, NE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has entered into a conciliation agreement with Becton, Dickinson and Company to resolve alleged hiring discrimination at the medical technology manufacturer’s three subsidiaries in Columbus and Holdrege.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: (Washington, DC) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Title IX rule announced by the Biden Administration that will ensure survivors can seek justice, ensure schools are held accountable...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A federal jury in the District of Massachusetts has found that a Massachusetts employer and his company retaliated against an employee who reported an on-the-job injury. The jury awarded $650,000 in damages - $600,000 in punitive damages and $50,000 in compensatory damages - as a result.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Federal workplace safety inspectors determined that an Atlanta recycling company exposed workers to hazardous chemicals without warning them of the risks. This is the third time since 2019 that the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the company for similar violations.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) hosted a roundtable with patients from across the country to hear directly about how Roe and the right to abortion have shaped their lives-and to make clear what’s at stake with the Supreme Court set to end Americans’ constitutional right to abortion any day.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on June 22.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on June 22.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia has ordered the owner of a Stone Mountain insurance agency to pay $50,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to a worker terminated after inquiring about pay.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a hearing on supporting schools, educators, parents, and students to get our kids back on track after the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: CANTON, OH - A workplace safety investigation into a 65-year-old worker’s fatal crushing injuries at TimkenSteel in Canton found the company failed to install guards or provide proper hand tools to prevent workers from entanglement hazards while operating a bar straightener machine.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: (Washington, DC) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the following statement on the Improving Needed Safeguards for Users of Lifesaving Insulin Now (INSULIN) Act-a bipartisan bill Senators Shaheen (D-NH) and Collins (R-ME) announced today that would lower insulin costs by capping patients’ costs at $35 a month, and encouraging manufacturers to reduce list prices.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that, in recognition of the vital role people with disabilities play in making the nation’s workforce diverse and inclusive, “Disability: Part of the Equity Equation" has been chosen as the theme for October’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month 2022.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: MARS, PA - An industrial insulation contractor in Ohio entered into a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to resolve litigation prompted by the findings of a June 2020 investigation into the fatal fall of one worker and serious injuries suffered by three others after they fell from a roof and scaffold at an indoor horse-riding facility in Mars.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A recent federal investigation has found that a Reno landscaping company - that employs workers exposed to the outdoors, including on summer days when temperatures can peak at 90 degrees - intentionally shortchanged 57 of its workers by denying them overtime wages they were owed.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: GUAYNABO, PR - A federal judge has ordered two San Juan restaurants and their owners to pay a total of $31,630 to 19 workers after the owners withheld back wages they assured the U.S. Department of Labor they would pay the employees after an investigation found their pay practices violated federal law.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the Senate Finance Committee’s markup of its retirement security package, the Enhancing American Retirement Now (EARN) Act. Last...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants grant opened on June 23.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - Un jurado federal en el Distrito de Massachusetts determinó que un empleador de Massachusetts y su compañía tomaron represalias contra un empleado que reportó una lesión en el trabajo. Como resultado, el jurado otorgó $650,000 por daños: $600,000 en daños punitivos y $50,000 en daños compensatorios.
