News and reports from the Department of Labor.

News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court has found Birdsboro Kosher Farms Corp. in contempt for failing to pay $162,359 in penalties after an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found numerous safety hazards, including willful, serious and repeat violations.

News Release: PHOENIX - A federal court has ordered Arizona-based Mesa Air Group - operating regional flights for American and United airlines as Mesa Airlines - to follow federal law and correct the company’s pay policy that prevented flight attendants and pilots from exercising their rights to take time off from work for qualifying reasons under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court has found Birdsboro Kosher Farms Corp. in contempt for failing to pay $162,359 in penalties after an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found numerous safety hazards, including willful, serious and repeat violations.

News Release: FOSTORIA, OH - An Ohio vinyl tile manufacturer faces $1,232,705 in proposed penalties after U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors responded when a worker suffered severe injuries as a result of being caught in a machine on April 28, 2022.

News Release: FOSTORIA, OH - An Ohio vinyl tile manufacturer faces $1,232,705 in proposed penalties after U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors responded when a worker suffered severe injuries as a result of being caught in a machine on April 28, 2022.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), issued the following statement on her continuing bipartisan oversight efforts into the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19, and her continuing commitment to improve our pandemic preparedness and public health systems by passing her PREVENT Pandemics Act.

News Release: PITTSBURGH - The part-owner and operator of a Pittsburgh-area assisted living provider has paid more than $1 million in back wages and liquidated damages to 47 workers after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found their pay practices denied the workers their rightfully earned wages.

News Release: ATLANTA - A federal court judge has ordered TPP Holdings Inc., an Atlanta architecture and interior design firm operating as The Preston Partnership, LLC, and its CEO, Robert N. Preston, to restore $540,658 to TPP’s employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) following an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.

U.S. Sec. of Labor Marty Walsh shared a personal anecdote on the benefits of mental-health support in the workplace when he spoke recently with employers and disability-advocacy leaders.

News Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Lamar Advertising Co. Alliance description: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Lamar Advertising Co. have signed an alliance to provide workers in Colorado and Montana...

The US Labor Department published a one page proposed rule on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Release: Date of Action: Oct. 20, 2022

A Georgia crawl space remediation company may have prevented the death of an employee had it adhered to safety regulations required by law, investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced today that the agency will hold a meeting of the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health on Nov. 17, 2022, from 1 to 4 p.m. EDT.