By Labor Gazette | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa – Feeling the symptoms of heat-related illness, a 24-year-old U.S. Postal Service mail carrier asked her supervisor to be relieved after walking about half-way through her 11-mile delivery route on a hot June day in Des Moines when temperatures exceeded 93 degrees. Investigators from ...
By Labor Gazette | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO ‒ Thirty-six Illinois workers have died on the job since Jan. 1, 2016. An average of one life lost each week in the Prairie State.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
The US Labor Department published a three page notice on Oct. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page proposed rule on Oct. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration announced today it has awarded $1 million to six organizations to develop training programs and materials that support mine rescue and mine emergency preparedness for underground mines.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Civil Rights Center and the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training, Division of Unemployment Insurance have entered into an agreement to resolve allegations that the state failed to provide adequate language assistance services to those with limited English proficiency to allow meaningful access to Kentucky’s unemployment services.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: BOSTON – A federal contractor that manufactures “Lightolier” brand indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures has entered into a conciliation agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to resolve allegations of sex-based wage discrimination.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: DALLAS – The U.S. Department of Labor has settled allegations of systemic hiring discrimination by one of the world’s largest food processing companies at six of its locations in Texas, Arkansas and New Mexico after an investigation by the department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: BOISE, Idaho – A Boise excavation contractor could have prevented the deaths of two workers and serious injuries suffered by a third after a trench collapse if the company had not allowed federal safety standards to be ignored at a Northwest Boise work site in May.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: STEVENS POINT, Wis. – An Arpin contractor faces penalties of $93,532 after federal inspectors found the company risked the lives of at least two of its employees as they installed underground water, sanitary and storm sewer utilities in an unprotected 9-foot deep trench at the Stevens Point Sixth Avenue Reconstruction Project.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas – In nearly every one of its investigations of restaurants in fiscal year 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division says restaurant owners in the Austin area violated federal labor law by not paying their workers the wages they were legally owed.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 3, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 3, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Oct. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 3, 2016
The US Labor Department published a three page notice on Oct. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: BOSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit with the department’s Office of Administrative Law Judges alleging a Massachusetts technology manufacturer engaged in discriminatory pay practices against female assembly workers at its Peabody headquarters.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 30, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 30, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page rule on Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 30, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page rule on Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 30, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
