By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration has issued guidance to inform states about their grant allotments, and the process and timelines to apply for funding to administer services through their foreign labor certification programs.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2022
News Release: MILWAUKEE - A federal judge has sentenced the former president of the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1295 - a dockworkers’ union known as the Milwaukee Grain Trimmers - to home confinement of 240 consecutive days, 2 years of probation, ordered to pay a $200 special assessment and $219,000 in restitution to the union and its employee benefit plan.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement after the International Labor Organization today recognized occupational safety and health as a Fundamental Principle and Right at Work:
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Departments of Labor and State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development today issued “Guidance on Fair Recruitment Practices for Temporary Migrant Workers ," with principles and guidelines on preventing abuse of prospective workers.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of more than $18 million in competitive grant funding to help workers in Maine, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin understand the application process for claiming and receiving unemployment benefits and related services.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2022
There was activity on seven bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on June 9.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - A Miami electrical and engineer contractor shortchanged eight workers by denying them a portion of their wages and benefits while they worked on a federally funded project at the Everglades National Park Flamingo Visitor Center in Homestead, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2022
News Release: IMLER, PA - After a 40-year-old worker suffered the partial amputation of one finger and an injury to a second one while cleaning a machine at a metal buildings manufacturer in January 2022, federal workplace safety inspectors found the company willfully exposed the worker to amputation hazards.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 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 Tim Kaine (D-VA) led Senators, House members, and advocates from across the country in a rally on Capitol Hill to call for their child care and early learning proposal to be included in reconciliation to lower costs for families, get parents back to work, support the child care workforce, and boost our entire economy.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on June 9.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2022
News Release: SWAINSBORO, GA - A Swainsboro pillow manufacturer whose history of safety and health violations includes three different incidents related to workers suffering amputation injuries is once again the focus of a federal workplace safety investigation, this time involving numerous repeat and serious violations.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX - A federal investigation has recovered $348,380 in back wages and liquidated damages for 144 underpaid workers of an Arizona construction employer who failed to pay their overtime wages.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $31,757 for 93 workers of two Alabama senior residential facilities after its investigations found the employers denied the workers overtime wages.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2022
News Release: CANTON, GA - A Canton tire retailer and auto shop shortchanged 19 workers by withholding first paychecks and paying overtime at rates lower than required, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has determined.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona questioning the administration’s authority and ability to enact blanket student loan forgiveness.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on June 8.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on June 10.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on June 10.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A federal judge has found Independent Home Care of Michigan LLC and its owners Mary Clark and Kathryn Flick liable to pay 23 home healthcare workers a total of $93,331 - representing $46,665 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages- after the company failed to pay companion workers overtime wages.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2022
News Release: ATHENS, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic partnership with McCarthy Building Companies to promote worker safety and health during the construction of a poultry science lab at the University of Georgia in Athens.
