
By Labor Gazette | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has confirmed that “Improving Investment Advice for Worker & Retirees,” an exemption for investment advice fiduciaries, will go into effect as scheduled on Feb. 16, 2021. In the coming days, the agency will publish related guidance for retirement investors, employee benefit plans and investment advice providers.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $49 million in grants to support 28 states and territories as they continue their efforts to combat fraud in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs. The department is making these awards from $100 million in funding announced Jan. 15, 2021 for states to combat fraud in these programs.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: BELLAIRE, MI – A U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation has found that Trinidad Resort & Club LLC, operator of the Shanty Creek Resort in Bellaire, violated the Fair Labor Standards Act ’s overtime requirements repeatedly when it paid workers only for the hours they were scheduled, rather than for the total number of hours they actually worked.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $49 million in grants to support 28 states and territories as they continue their efforts to combat fraud in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs. The department is making these awards from $100 million in funding announced Jan. 15, 2021 for states to combat fraud in these programs.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: BELLAIRE, MI – A U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation has found that Trinidad Resort & Club LLC, operator of the Shanty Creek Resort in Bellaire, violated the Fair Labor Standards Act ’s overtime requirements repeatedly when it paid workers only for the hours they were scheduled, rather than for the total number of hours they actually worked.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has confirmed that “Improving Investment Advice for Worker & Retirees,” an exemption for investment advice fiduciaries, will go into effect as scheduled on Feb. 16, 2021. In the coming days, the agency will publish related guidance for retirement investors, employee benefit plans and investment advice providers.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 12, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 12, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 12, 2021
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 12, 2021
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today approved additional funding of $2,935,100 to the California Department of Employment Development to support continued employment for disaster-relief cleanup and recovery after severe winter storms in 2019 led to flooding, landslides and mudslides in 23 northern and central California counties.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today approved additional funding of $2,935,100 to the California Department of Employment Development to support continued employment for disaster-relief cleanup and recovery after severe winter storms in 2019 led to flooding, landslides and mudslides in 23 northern and central California counties.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 11, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 10, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 10, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 10, 2021
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: HUGO, OK – A U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety investigation has found a Hugo rail car products and services provider did not follow federal safety standards for working in confined spaces after two workers died from inhaling toxic fumes.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – A Fort Lauderdale heating, ventilation and air conditioning contractor has paid $20,547 in back wages to 18 employees after a federal investigation found the employer failed to pay workers overtime when they worked more than 40 hours in a workweek.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – A Fort Lauderdale heating, ventilation and air conditioning contractor has paid $20,547 in back wages to 18 employees after a federal investigation found the employer failed to pay workers overtime when they worked more than 40 hours in a workweek.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: HUGO, OK – A U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety investigation has found a Hugo rail car products and services provider did not follow federal safety standards for working in confined spaces after two workers died from inhaling toxic fumes.