By Labor Gazette | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a $5 million cooperative agreement to reduce child labor in rural Zambia among adolescent girls, ages 15-17, by increasing access to quality formal and non-formal education and training.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 13, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page rule on Oct. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO – A federal investigation has determined that an overstressed 40-ton beam fell and caused the death of a 47-year-old laborer doing demolition of Chicago’s Interstate 90 and Touhy Road overpass in April.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. ‒ Five seconds is all it takes for flowing grain to engulf and trap a worker. In 60 seconds, the worker is submerged and is in serious danger of death by suffocation. More than half of all workers engulfed in grain die this way. Many others suffer permanent disability.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 12, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Oct. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 12, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 11, 2016
News Release: OAK PARK, Ill. – Less than three weeks after being cited for exposing workers to unsafe trenches, federal investigators saw a Chicago plumbing contractor exposing the same four-man crew to trenching hazards as they worked on sewer and water utilities at two locations in Oak Park on consecutive days in March 2016.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor announced today a consent judgment requiring the owners of two Johnny Rockets restaurants in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to pay $571,460 in back wages and liquidated damages to 55 servers denied the minimum wage and overtime.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 11, 2016
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. –The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today released data that indicates Fiscal Year 2016 was the safest year in mining history.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 8, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA – Florida’s emergency workers, employers and the public at-large face potentially serious hazards as they begin to recover from Hurricane Matthew, and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is urging vigilance during the cleanup.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 7, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 7, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 7, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 7, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 7, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page proposed rule on Oct. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 7, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Oct. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 6, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A Syracuse roofing contractor with a history of safety violations has again exposed its employees to potentially fatal fall hazards at one of its worksites, this time in Camillus.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 5, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 5, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Oct. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – International development company and federal contractor Chemonics International Inc. has agreed to pay $482,243 in back wages, interest and benefits to 124 African-American applicants. The agreement settles U.S. Department of Labor findings that the company discriminated on the basis of race in hiring for its professional entry-level program.
