By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
Release: Employer: BAE Systems Inc., operating as Ordnance Systems Inc.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: KIELER, WI - One of the nation’s largest food safety sanitation services providers has paid $1.5 million in civil money penalties after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the company employed at least 102 children - from 13 to 17 years of age - in hazardous occupations and had them working overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: ALIQUIPPA, PA - As the nation today recognizes the selfless and dedicated work of professional caregivers on National Caregivers Day, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that a federal court has entered a default judgment against an Aliquippa home health provider and its owner, after an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the employer denied 23 home health aides overtime wages.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: ANCHORAGE, AK - Working in the Alaskan fishing industry - an occupation already regarded as one of the nation's most dangerous - employees aboard the F/V Pacific Producer faced dangers purely of their employer's making, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Coast Guard has found.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $50 million in grants to help 15 community colleges in 14 states expand access to education and training for good-paying jobs and equitably meet employers’ and workers’ skill development needs.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
Release: Employer: Urban Air Jacksonville LLC, operating as Urban Air Trampoline Park at Southside
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - When MasterBrand Cabinets announced plans in December 2022 to close its Newton, Kansas location, the area lost one of its largest employers, displacing more than 400 workers.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
Release: Employer: Tri-City Electrical Contractors Inc. Investigation sites: 430 West Drive, Altamonte Springs, FL, 32714 (Headquarters). 13891 Jetport Loop Road, Fort Myers, FL 33913. 5911 Breckenridge Parkway, Tampa, FL 33610. Investigation findings: Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: BARBERTON, OH ‒ In less than two years, three workers at a leading tool manufacturer in Barberton suffered injuries from unguarded machinery.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: ANCHORAGE, AK - Working in the Alaskan fishing industry - an occupation already regarded as one of the nation’s most dangerous - employees aboard the F/V Pacific Producer faced dangers purely of their employer’s making, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Coast Guard has found.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today issued the following statement after Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz refused to appear in front of the committee to testify about his company’s long-running noncompliance with federal labor law...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
Release: Employer: Ark Foods Group Inc., operating as Ark Foods
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: ATLANTA - An administrative law judge has entered a consent order following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that determined a wholesale plant nursery in Miami gave foreign visa workers preferential treatment over U.S. workers, and housed workers in unsafe and unhealthy conditions in Greensboro, Georgia.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced Tuesday that the panel will hold a hearing this Thursday, Feb. 16, at 10 a.m. titled, “Examining Health Care Workforce Shortages: Where Do We Go From Here?"
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today led a committee hearing titled, “Examining Health Care Workforce Shortages: Where Do We Go From Here?"
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 - As Republicans threaten cuts to Social Security and other essential federal programs, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Val Hoyle (D-Ore.) in the U.S. House of Representatives, introduced legislation that would...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: Company Features Prominently in New Majority Staff Report on “Pharma Pandemic Profiteers"
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to demand accountability from the Department on its failure to respond to several Committee inquiries.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
Release: Employer: Juarez M&M Construction Inc., operating as Juarez Construction
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration is inviting the public and workplace safety stakeholders to share their comments on how the agency can best honor companies who make exceptional commitments to workplace safety and health, and encourage others to follow.
