News and reports from the Department of Labor.

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and COVID survivor groups to honor the nearly 1 million Americans who have died from COVID-19 and urge their colleagues to pass the emergency COVID funding package and Senator Murray’s bipartisan PREVENT Pandemics Act, which the HELP Committee passed in an overwhelming bipartisan vote in March.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor held an online roundtable today to raise awareness of sexual assault and harassment in the trucking industry, and discuss how industry stakeholders can work together to combat these concerns by promoting strategies to ensure safe and inclusive work environments.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking public comment on proposed revisions to the ETA Financial Report ETA-9130 instructions.

News Release: LANSING, MI - Residential healthcare workers often provide around-the-clock assistance with essential daily living tasks for some of our most vulnerable people. Theirs, however, is an industry where employers’ errant pay practices too often place these caregivers among our nation’s most vulnerable wage earners, as a recent U.S. Department of Labor investigation of a Lansing employer’s pay practices has found.

News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) hosted a roundtable discussion on the importance of strengthening employer-sponsored insurance, the backbone of our health care system.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking public comment on a proposed extension to the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program Reserve Funding Request, Form ETA-9117.

News Release: NEW YORK - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has entered into a conciliation agreement with Rockland Bakery Inc. to resolve alleged hiring discrimination at the federal contractor’s Nanuet location affecting female, Black and Asian class members.

News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on President Biden’s directive to the Department of Education to move forward with student loan forgiveness proposals...

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: ST. LOUIS ‒ Seeking to challenge an unfortunate fact in the cold steel manufacturing industry - where nearly 4 percent of all cold steel workers suffer recordable injuries each year - one Missouri company took action in 2016, setting a goal to change its safety culture to develop a better safety awareness and risk assessment of the potential for employee’s getting injured on the job.

News Release: Employer: Fernwood Land LLC - operating as Executive Inn

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new proposed rules to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold a stakeholder meeting May 3, 2022, to provide an overview of and seek comments on the agency's ongoing efforts to protect workers from heat-related hazards. The meeting will be held online from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. EDT.

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, which limits the right of victims of discrimination to obtain damages for the emotional harm they suffer because of the discrimination.

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.