News and reports from the Department of Labor.

News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC); Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Republican Leader Richard Burr (R-NC); House Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA); and Senate Employment and Workplace...

News Release: SUAMICO, WI - On a chilly March morning, a federal workplace safety inspector observed five roofers atop a Wrightstown residence, working at heights up to 23 feet without required fall protection. The inspector later found the fall protection equipment piled in a bucket on the ground next to a work truck.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold an online meeting of the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health on Sept. 14, 2022, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT.

News Release: ATLANTA - An ongoing federal initiative to ensure that Southeast employers comply with federal laws regarding the employment of temporary nonimmigrant workers with H-2B guest visas has made significant progress in holding violators accountable for infringing on workers’ rights.

News Release: Dear Administrator O’Connell: The monkeypox outbreak continues to spread at an alarming rate in the United States, particularly among the LGBTQ+ community, with over 15,000 cases already reported in 52 jurisdictions as of Aug. 22, 2022.[1] The JYNNEOS vaccine, diagnostic tests, and therapeutics are...

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $50 million in Apprenticeship Building America grant funding for Registered Apprenticeship hubs - organizations that help employers design, develop and deliver programs - and support the establishment, scaling and expansion of Registered Apprenticeship programs in new and fast-growing industries and occupations.

Supporting Regional, National, and Local Action to Address Child Labor in West African Agriculture grant opened on Aug. 25.

News Release: DUETTE, FL - A federal workplace safety investigation has found a 35-year-old farmworker died from heat illness on a Duette farm in the early evening of April 5, 2022. It was only his second day on the job.

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 President Biden’s announcement that the Department of Education will forgive $10,000 in student debt for tens of millions of...

News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the Biden administration’s announcement that it is extending the student loan repayment moratorium for a fifth time and forcing taxpayers to pay for certain borrowers to receive $10,000 in loan "forgiveness"...

News Release: AKRON, OH - A Dundee contractor with a long history of federal workplace safety violations has added an additional $228,126 in fines to $108,318 in unpaid penalties with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for again exposing workers to potential deadly fall hazards, this time at an Akron job site.

News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration signed a strategic partnership with Balfour Beatty Construction to promote worker safety and health during construction of the 1018 West Peachtree Project in Atlanta.

Project to Increase Worker Voice and Address Forced Labor, Child Labor, and Other Labor Violations in Cattle Raising Areas of Brazil and Paraguay grant opened on Aug. 25.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $3.4 million in funding to help recruit, train and retain more women in quality pre-apprenticeship and Registered Apprenticeship programs, as well as nontraditional occupations.

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A federal court has ordered a Pennsylvania mother and daughter to pay more than $2.4 million in overtime back wages and liquidated damages, after a three-day trial confirmed the pair used illegal pay practices to avoid paying full wages to 345 workers who provided daily living assistance and home healthcare in the Pittsburgh area.