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US Department of Labor, Consulate of Mexico in New Orleans renew agreement to promote understanding of worker rights
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Federal court enters consent order requiring North Conway restaurant to pay $148K in tips, wages, liquidated damages to 31 employees after Department of Labor investigation
A federal court has ordered a North Conway restaurant to pay a total of $148,128 – $74,064 in tips and back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages – after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the employers kept workers’ tips illegally and failed to pay them overtime wages when required by law.
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Inspections find Dollar General continues to discount safety as violations, penalties pile up for blocked exits, unsafe storage areas, other hazards
Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC – operator of more than 18,000 Dollar General discount stores in 47 states – has again ignored federal workplace safety standards, this time identified during inspections at four locations in Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
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US Department of Labor initiates technical support; worker safety, health outreach in areas hardest hit by Hurricane Ian
In the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has initiated efforts to provide on-site technical assistance and outreach in the areas of Florida hardest hit by the storm to protect workers involved in the recovery and response and to prevent any further injury or loss of life.

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Proposed Exemption for Certain Prohibited Transaction Restrictions Involving JPMorgan Chase Co. (JPMC or the Applicant) Located in New York, New York discussed 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.

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Inspections find Dollar General continues to discount safety as violations, penalties pile up for blocked exits, unsafe storage areas, other hazards
News Release: ATLANTA - Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC - operator of more than 18,000 Dollar General discount stores in 47 states - has again ignored federal workplace safety standards, this time identified during inspections at four locations in Alabama, Florida and Georgia. The company faces $1,680,216 in proposed penalties after these inspections, a portion of the more than $9.6 million in total initial penalties the company has received since 2017.

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Ohio contractor continues to defy federal fall protection safety rules, cited for egregious willful violations, faces $1M in fines after workplace inspection
News Release: WHEELING, WV - A Millersburg, Ohio, contractor with a long history of disregarding workplace safety standards now faces more than $1 million in penalties after an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found their employees working at dangerous heights without fall protection, this time at a West Virginia work site.

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US Department of Labor cites framing contractor who ignored OSHA's safety hazard notification, directed workers onto roof without fall protection
News Release: RIVER GROVE, IL - While federal workplace safety inspectors are used to some employers' disregard for workplace safety, the response of a Chicago-area carpentry company's site supervisor to a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspector's notification at the site about workers without fall protection exposed to the construction industry's most lethal hazard - falls from elevation - was especially blatant.

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US Department of Labor cites Savannah space remediation company after 32-year-old lead repair technician suffers fatal electrocution
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - A federal workplace safety investigation into how an employee suffered a fatal electrocution while digging a shallow drainage trench under a home has found that a Savannah crawl space remediation company might have prevented the incident by following required safety standards.
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Foxx Statement on Student Loan Rulings
News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to rulings from Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and a federal judge in Missouri regarding the Biden administration’s student loan debt scheme...

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US Department of Labor cites Florida company for numerous safety failures after investigation into how 22-year-old diver working in canal drowned
News Release: MARGATE, FL - Working at the bottom of a Margate canal on April 4, 2022, a young diver was removing sand with an industrial vacuum to restore an embankment project when sediment above collapsed onto him, leaving the 22-year-old worker trapped until he drowned.
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Foxx, Allen Tell NLRB to Stop Election Methods that Coerce, Disenfranchise Voters
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA) sent a letter to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) Chairman Lauren M. McFerran requesting the agency return to manual, onsite, secret-ballot elections.

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US Department of Labor orders ExxonMobil to reinstate terminated employees suspected of leaking information to Wall Street Journal
News Release: IRVING, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration ordered ExxonMobil Corp. to immediately reinstate two employees and pay them more than $800,000 in back wages, interest and compensatory damages. A federal whistleblower investigation found the company terminated them illegally after suspecting them of leaking information to the Wall Street Journal.

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US Department of Labor finds Pennsylvania manufacturer prioritized safety, health at one facility, while hazards at New Jersey site led to 21 violations
News Release: MILLVILLE, NJ - A Pennsylvania-based metal coatings company that enacted a comprehensive safety and health program to protect workers at its corporate headquarters failed to do the same for employees at a manufacturing facility it opened in the fall of 2021 in Millville, a federal workplace safety investigation has found.

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Homeland Security secretary: Additional visas help 'meet needs of American businesses'
An additional 64,716 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for the fiscal year 2023 will be available to employers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in collaboration with the Department of Labor (DOL), has announced.

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