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OSHA recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day in Peoria, Illinois

News Release: PEORIA, Ill. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.


OSHA recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day in Rockford, Illinois

News Release: ROCKFORD, Ill. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.


OSHA recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day in Madison, Wisconsin

News Release: MADISON, Wis. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.


OSHA recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day in Wichita, Kansas

News Release: WICHITA, Kan. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.


OSHA recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day

News Release: LINCOLN, Neb. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.


OSHA administrative law judge rules that Massachusetts companies operated as single employer at worksite where 3 workers fell

News Release: BOSTON – An administrative law judge with the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has ruled that two Massachusetts contractors – A.C. Castle Construction Co. Inc. and Daryl Provencher, doing business as Provencher Home Improvements – were operating as a single employer at a Wenham worksite when three employees were injured in October 2014.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a three page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a three page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on April 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on April 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on April 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Court orders nationwide staffing company CEO to pay $135K  in back wages, damages to former live-in domestic worker

News Release: SAN DIEGO – The CEO of a leading U.S. staffing company will pay a former live-in domestic service worker $135,000 in back wages and damages under the terms of a consent judgment entered into the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.


Court finds that First Bankers Trust Services overpaid $9.4M for shares of New Jersey paving, building company stock

News Release: NEW YORK – A federal judge, presiding over a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit, has found that First Bankers Trust Services Inc. breached its duties of prudence and loyalty to the participants of an employee stock ownership plan sponsored by a New Jersey paving and building site preparation company when it caused the plan to overpay $9.4 million for shares of the company’s stock.


Settlement resolves 24-year-old hiring discrimination case

News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has settled a case that arose from a 1993 compliance review of NationsBank, N.A., that found systematic hiring violations involving African-American applicants for entry-level jobs and led to more than two decades of litigation. NationsBank merged with the Bank of America, N.A. in 1998.


The US Labor Department published a six page notice on April 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.