By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park remains open following a new eruption on Mauna Loa volcano that began in the summit caldera late Sunday night, and migrated to the northeast rift zone Monday morning.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Big Thicket National Preserve is expanding the volunteer longleaf pine planting efforts to ecosystem-wide planting events this winter
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
An earlier version of this release mis-dated the end of shuttle service.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Experience how the holiday season was celebrated by those who lived at worked at Hampton by exploring the stories of free and enslaved African Americans, indentured servants, and the Ridgely family on Saturday, December 10th.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
The National Park Service (NPS) and Gateway Arch Park Foundation are one step closer to kicking off the $24.5 million renovation of the Old Courthouse at Gateway Arch National Park.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Charges were unsealed today against eight individuals for conspiring to defraud the Georgia Department of Labor of tens of millions of dollars in federal funds intended for unemployment benefits.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OLAJUWON HARRINGTON, also known as “OJ Harrington,” 30, of Waterbury, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with fraud and identity theft offenses related to his alleged theft of pandemic unemployment benefits.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Kaylie Esquivel Arizmendi, 32, of Nashua, pleaded guilty in federal court to making false statements, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Jaleel Phillips, age 25, of Capital Heights, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a federal wire fraud conspiracy, in relation to a scheme to unlawfully obtain COVID-19 relief loans and unemployment benefits.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division today announced an extension of the deadline for submitting prevailing wage survey by West Virginia’s highway construction industry employers to Dec. 18, 2022.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
A federal court and the department’s Office of Administrative Law Judges have ordered an Oakley stone quarry to pay $983,725 in back wages and liquidated damages after U.S. Department of Labor investigators found that the employer violated multiple federal labor laws, which denied 60 workers their rightfully earned wages.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
A federal court has approved a consent judgment ordering a Southeast Pennsylvania restaurant to pay a total of $193,817 to 68 employees after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the employer denied all of the wages owed them by law.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found the employer misclassified some employees as independent contractors, and paid them straight-time rates for overtime hours worked.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey entered a consent judgment on Oct. 5, 2022, ordering the employers to pay back wages as well as liquidated and punitive damages to six workers, in response to a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Labor.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced today that it has approved the application submitted to the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program by the Teamsters Local 966 Pension Plan (Teamsters Local 966 Plan).
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
To help remove academic and training barriers faced by young people, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $90 million funding opportunity in YouthBuild Program grants to support pre-apprenticeships in high-demand industries including construction, healthcare, information technology and hospitality.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Once again, federal workplace safety inspectors have found merchandise blocking emergency exits and stacked unsafely, this time at a Family Dollar store in Richmond Hill.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
With holiday shopping nearing its peak, federal workplace safety inspectors have again found Dollar Tree Stores Inc. – one of the nation's largest discount retailers – exposing workers in Matteson to the risks of unsafely stored and stacked boxes of merchandise and blocked electrical panels.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold an online meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health on Jan. 10, 2023, from 2 to 4 p.m. EST.
By Press release submission | Dec 4, 2022
Twice in six days in June 2022, federal safety inspectors observed a Middlefield roofing contractor exposing workers to deadly fall hazards at two separate job sites in Tallmadge and Columbia Station, continuing a pattern of disregard for workplace safety dating back to 2019.
