By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration has launched a new enforcement initiative to better protect the nation’s miners from health hazards resulting from repeated overexposure to respirable crystalline silica. MSHA reports silica dust affects thousands of miners each year and, without adequate protection, miners face risks of serious illnesses, many of which can be fatal.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 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 9, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NY - On Nov. 29, 2021, a supervisor at McDowell and Walker Inc. - a manufacturer and supplier of grains, feeds and other agricultural products - told an untrained employee to enter a grain bin to clear a feed buildup that clogged a silo entry point at the company’s Afton facility.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 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 Senate vote on the nomination of Lisa Gomez to serve as Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA).
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - United States Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led 23 of their Senate colleagues in a letter to President Biden urging him to immediately issue an executive order directing the federal government to develop a national plan to defend Americans’ fundamental reproductive rights, including their right to an abortion.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2022
News Release: CLEVELAND, OH - A North Royalton businessman who failed to pay payroll taxes to the IRS and embezzled health care premiums deducted from his employees’ checks, will spend the next two years in prison and pay restitution of $558,697 to the IRS and $3,807 to the participants of his companies’ health care plan.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A recent U.S. Department of Labor investigation found a Shawnee, Oklahoma, gas station and convenience store made illegal deductions from workers’ pay for uniforms and cash register shortages that brought wages below the federally required minimum wage.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 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 9, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on June 8.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and Ranking Member Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) introduced the Retirement Improvement and Savings Enhancement to Supplement Healthy Investments for the Nest Egg (RISE & SHINE) Act-legislation...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 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, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-07), Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus’ Abortion Rights and Access Taskforce, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14), Congressman...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold an online meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Safety and Health on June 30, 2022, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. EDT.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, on the House floor in support of H.R. 6087, the Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NY - On Nov. 29, 2021, a supervisor at McDowell and Walker Inc. - a manufacturer and supplier of grains, feeds and other agricultural products - told an untrained employee to enter a grain bin to clear a feed buildup that clogged a silo entry point at the company's Afton facility.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: Date of actions: May 5 and May 27, 2022
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on House passage of H.R. 6087, the Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
There was activity on five bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on June 7.
