By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - As the part of today’s publication of the Spring 2022 Regulatory Agenda by the Biden-Harris administration, the U.S. Department of Labor’s agenda has been posted online.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Departments of Labor and Commerce today released the “Good Jobs Principles ," a coordinated effort to provide employers, workers, federal agencies, state and local governments, and other advocates with a roadmap to advance the goal of quality jobs for all workers.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh joined Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, Rep. Bobby Scott, White House Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator Mayor Mitch Landrieu and other leaders of federal, state and local government, labor unions and workforce organizations gathered today in Washington at the “Good Jobs" Summit, part of the initiative led by the department to help create and support good-quality jobs.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: LUZERNE, PA - Despite the dangers of falls - a leading cause of construction industry deaths - a Strasburg framing contractor ignored federal workplace standards and exposed workers to falls as high as 14 feet while working at a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation facility.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 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 22, 2022
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), along with Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Republican Leader John Boozman (R-AR) and Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) announced an agreement to help school and summer providers...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the so-called “Good Jobs Principles" framework that was unveiled by the Department of Labor...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 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 22, 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 22, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court striking down a prohibition against religious schools’ participation in a Maine tuition assistance program...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 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 21, 2022
News Release: LUZERNE, PA - Despite the dangers of falls - a leading cause of construction industry deaths - a Strasburg framing contractor ignored federal workplace standards and exposed workers to falls as high as 14 feet while working at a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation facility.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2022
There were four notices published by the Labor Department in week ending June 18, according to the Federal Register.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force, which includes the U.S. Department of Labor as a member, today issued the “Strategy to Prevent Importation of Goods Mined, Produced, or Manufactured with Forced Labor in the People’s Republic of China," as required by the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 18, 2022
News Release: SUCCASUNNA, NJ - A federal court has approved a consent judgment ordering a Succasunna landscaping company and its owner to pay $400,000 in back wages and damages after the U.S. Department of Labor found the employer denied 32 of its workers the overtime pay they earned.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration has proposed nearly $1.2 million in civil penalties to M-Class Mining LLC, a Macedonia, Illinois, coal mine operator. MSHA cited the operator for continuing to operate the mine without evacuating miners with a fire underground and failing to notify MSHA of the fire. The fire broke out on a longwall section on Aug. 13, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 18, 2022
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC); Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA); and Representative Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) sent a letter to U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) perform a study on the role of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in the pharmaceutical supply chain.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 18, 2022
News Release: SEATTLE - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation that uncovered a farm labor contractor’s already costly failures to protect migrant and seasonal agricultural workers took an unexpected turn when investigators found the same employer had denied 165 farm laborers more than $80,000 in overtime wages for hours spent cleaning the popular Gorge Amphitheater.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, to honor the 34th anniversary of U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum’s (D-OH) introduction of the WARN Act, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced a revised version of...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a funding opportunity for $11.7 million in Susan Harwood Training Grants to support the delivery of training and education to help workers and employers identify and prevent workplace safety and health hazards.
