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News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of more than $140 million in grants to 19 non-profit organizations nationwide to provide critical job training and employment services through the Senior Community Service Employment Program.

OSHA finds Mississippi sawmill’s safety failures led to worker’s death

News Release: GRENADA, Miss. – An employer that fails to follow safety standards leaves workers like Charlie Cummins, Jr. to suffer the consequences.

US Labor Department announces hotline to offer updates to Capitol Hill cafeteria workers owed back wage payments

News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a hotline available for nearly 700 U.S. Senate cafeteria food service workers owed back wages by their employers. The hotline will provide workers who prepare and serve meals to Capitol Hill lawmakers and their staffs with updates on the status of back wage payments owed to them.

Notice published on Oct. 20 by Labor Department

The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Oct. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Labor Department publishes notice on Oct. 20

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

US Labor Department sues Sentry Equipment Erector’s ESOP fiduciaries for failing to protect plan assets during multi-million dollar purchase of company

News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against the fiduciaries of a Virginia-based employee stock ownership plan, alleging the defendants failed to protect the assets of the plan as it purchased nearly $21 million in company shares from the president of Sentry Equipment Erectors Inc. who was also a trustee of the ESOP.

Temporary workers rigging steel at Columbus building site at risk of 6-story falls as employers failed to provide fall protection, training

News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio ‒ The absence of fall protection equipment exposed six temporary employees to falls of up to 60 feet as they welded and attached steel braces on a commercial construction site in Columbus. A dangerous oversight given that falls account for nearly 40 percent of work-related fatalities – the construction industry’s leading cause of death.

CORRECTED: OSHA inspectors responding to report of workers sickened by carbon monoxide, finds dangerous asbestos exposure, other hazards at nursing home renovation

News Release: NEW GLARUS, Wis. – After five employees became ill from carbon monoxide exposure as they renovated a New Glarus nursing home, federal safety inspectors responding to the scene found their employer also exposed the workers to asbestos hazards.

US Labor Department conducting wage survey of Connecticut building construction projects to ensure workers receive proper wages

News Release: PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is conducting a building construction survey in Connecticut to collect data on wages paid to workers to help establish prevailing wage rates, as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts.

Puerto Rico Police Department to pay $8.7M to 2,642 officers following US Labor Department investigation, litigation

News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The U.S. Department of Labor requested that a federal judge approve a consent judgment requiring the Puerto Rico Police Department to pay $8,732,386 in back wages and interest to 2,642 current and former police officers who did not receive all their overtime wages required under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Notice published by Labor Department on Oct. 19

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

OSHA cites South Florida tree trimming service in worker’s fatal electrocution

News Release: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Had proper precautions been taken, a 34-year-old tree trimmer would not have been fatally electrocuted when an aluminum pole saw made contact with overhead power lines, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.

Louisiana nursing home operator pays nearly $120K in penalties, back wages, damages to resolve violations following federal investigation

News Release: NEW ORLEANS – Two U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigations found that a nursing care operator with multiple southern Louisiana facilities violated the minimum wage , overtime and record-keeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

US Labor Department sues Gloucester seafood processor, Lowell employment agency to recover at least $272K in wages, damages for 55 employees

News Release: BOSTON — The U.S. Department of Labor is suing a Gloucester seafood processing, packing and distribution business; a Lowell temporary employment agency and payroll service that supplies temporary workers exclusively to the business, and their respective owners, for underpaying 55 vulnerable low-wage workers, falsifying records and taking improper payroll deductions from some of the employees.

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