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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a hearing focused on how the federal government can better support frontline efforts to address the mental health and substance use disorder crises that have been exacerbated by COVID-19 and have touched communities across our country.

The US Labor Department published a one page notice on March 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: Employers: William Specialty Services LLC 100 Crescent Centre Parkway, Tucker, GA 30084 G UB MK Constructors 297 River Road, Muscle Shoals, AL 35661 Tennessee Valley Authority 1101 Market St., Chattanooga, TN 37402 Citations issued: William Specialty Services LLC One willful, two serious ...

News Release: PITTSBURGH - Following litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of the Solicitor, a federal court has entered a consent judgment against three restaurants - one in Pennsylvania and two in West Virginia - and their owners after investigators found they paid back-of-the-house employees off-the-books salaries for all hours worked and denied them overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek.

News Release: SEATTLE - An ongoing federal initiative to investigate pay practices of residential builders in Washington State found that a Lacey contractor recklessly failed to pay workers overtime for hours they worked over 40 in a workweek in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has reopened the rulemaking record partially and scheduled an informal public hearing to seek comments on specific topics that relate to the development of a final standard to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from workplace exposure to the COVID-19 virus.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division will use investigations and outreach to workers and employers in the southeast’s agricultural industry to continue its efforts to increase federal labor law compliance, according to a March 17 news release.

A residential builder in Frisco, Texas, had to pay $163,648 in back wages after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation into improper overtime practices, as reported in a Feb. 15 Department of Labor news release.

News Release: STERLING, MA - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation found that a plastic packaging manufacturer - with a history of workplace safety and health inspections - could have prevented a worker at its Sterling facility from suffering severe burns if they had complied with OSHA’s requirements for lockout/tagout and provided personal protective equipment.

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, hosted a virtual roundtable with Washington state borrowers and the state’s student loans ombudswoman to hear directly about how the broken student loan system is...

News Release: HONOLULU -The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $62,908 in back wages and liquidated damages for 42 workers after an investigation found the operators of five Hawaii restaurants denied them overtime pay and allowed a manager and other employees to take a portion of the workers’ tips illegally.

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has reopened the rulemaking record partially and scheduled an informal public hearing to seek comments on specific topics that relate to the development of a final standard to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from workplace exposure to the COVID-19 virus.

News Release: WASHINGTON - Solicitor of Labor Seema Nanda today issued a statement on the Department of Labor’s filing of an amicus in a case now before the National Labor Relations Board. The brief argues the validity of a confidentiality provision in a mandatory arbitration agreement imposed on employees by Ralph’s Grocery Company.