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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.
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Murray, Menendez, Kaine, Gillibrand, Sarbanes, Courtney, Hayes, Manning Lead 100+ Colleagues in Calling on Biden Admin to Extend PSLF Waiver Deadline
News Release: Dear Secretary Cardona: Thank you for your continued efforts to improve the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. As you know, the limited PSLF waiver announced last year has already improved the lives of more than 164,0001 public servants who have had their student loans forgiven and 1 million2...
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US Department of Labor twice finds Suamico general contractor exposing, workers to potentially deadly fall hazards; proposes $37K in fines
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.
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Education and Labor Committee and the bills it addressed on Aug. 23
There was activity on one bill related to the Education and Labor Committee on Aug. 23.
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Investigation finds 2 recycling companies failed to use fire safety plans to evacuate 9 workers as air rescue averts drilling platform tragedy
News Release: SABINE PASS, TX - A federal workplace investigation has found two companies’ failures to follow required safety standards endangered the lives of nine workers who found themselves trapped - nearly 30 stories high - atop a burning jack-up drilling platform decommissioned in the Anchorage Basin near a Sabine Pass shipyard.
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Federal court orders Tampa Electric Co. to make significant workplace safety changes, pay $500K fine, face 36 months probation for fatal plant failures
News Release: TAMPA, FL - A federal court has ordered Tampa Electric Co. to implement a safety compliance plan audited by an independent third party, pay a $500,000 penalty and be subject to 36 months of probation after Tampa Electric pleaded guilty to willfully violating an OSHA standard, which caused five worker ...
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Proposed Exemptions From Certain Prohibited Transaction Restrictions discussed on Aug. 24 by Labor Department
The US Labor Department published a six page notice on Aug. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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Labor Department discusses Updating Spending Weights Annually Based on a Single Calendar Year of Data on Aug. 24
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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US Department of Labor investigation recovers $602K in back wages for 127 Utah tile installers, finds employer violated overtime rules
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $602,745, in overtime back wages for 127 employees of a Woods Cross tile installation company that denied them their full wages and benefits.
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US Department of Labor recovers more than $106K in back wages for 105 Louisiana waste workers denied overtime
News Release: Employer name: IV Waste LLC
Investigation site: 730 South Pierce St.
New Orleans, LA 70119
Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found IV Waste LLC denied overtime wages to 105 employees by paying some a daily rate for hours worked over 40 in a workweek, and ...
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US Department of Labor obtains court order preventing federal contractor from retaliating against, intimidating workers on Maryland projects
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, VA - The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to prohibit a federal contractor and its owners from retaliating against former and current employees who cooperate with an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division.
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US Department of Labor cites Wauchula labor contractor, after 35-year-old farmworker suffers fatal heat illness
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.
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US Department of Labor recovers $56K in unpaid overtime, damages for Hawaii landscaping workers
News Release: HONOLULU - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has recovered $28,455 in unpaid overtime wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages from a Big Island nursery and landscaping company after they failed to pay overtime wages to 37 employees.
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OSHA, SafetyWorks!, Construction Safety Alliance of Maine partner to promote workplace safety among industry workers
News Release: AUGUSTA, ME - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Maine Department of Labor Workplace Safety and Health Division’s SafetyWorks! outreach program, and the Construction Safety Alliance of Maine signed an alliance to promote workplace safety and health and educate construction employers and workers in the state on safety and health hazards.
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US Department of Labor welcomes nine organizations to support delivery of employment assistance to transitioning service members, spouses
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced its Veterans’ Employment and Training Service has signed a memorandum of understanding with nine new partners who have agreed to support the agency’s Employment Navigator and Partnership Pilot. With these additions, VETS has recruited 33 partners to support the pilot.
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US Department of Labor awards $70.8M in grants to expand employment, training services for low-income, unemployed Native Americans
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $70.8 million in grant funding to 166 Indian and Native American entities to help provide employment and training services to low-income and unemployed Native American adults and youth - including American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian adults and youth - and create pathways to middle-class careers.
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US Department of Labor awards nearly $26M in funding to support workers’ equitable access to states’ unemployment insurance systems
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of nearly $26 million in grant funding to improve how unemployment insurance benefits are delivered to people facing obstacles to access in California, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada and West Virginia.
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Advisory Committee on Veterans' Employment, Training and Employer Outreach (ACVETEO): Meeting discussed on Aug. 24 by Labor Department
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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US Department of Labor recovers $80K in back wages, liquidated damages after temporary staffing agency denied overtime to 108 hospitality workers
News Release: Employer: Always Reliable Management Services Inc.
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Illinois contractor racks up additional $303K in federal fines for repeatedly exposing construction workers to deadly fall hazards
News Release: NORTH BARRINGTON, IL - A Roselle contractor with a long history of federal workplace safety violations who currently owes more than $390,000 in penalties, added an additional $303,105 in proposed fines for once again exposing workers to potential deadly fall hazards at a North Barrington job site.
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