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News Release: WASHINGTON - On the heels of a strong jobs report, workers and jobseekers are taking advantage of opportunities to acquire new skills and explore better opportunities. Many of those workers will seek help from the public workforce system - a network of federal, state and local government-funded programs that provide services to workers, jobseekers and employers that lead to economic growth and improved skills for workers.
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Foxx Reacts to Biden’s Student Loan Servicing Plans
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding the Education Department’s plans to overhaul the nation’s student loan servicing...
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Miller-Meeks: Attending a Minority Serving Institution Opens Pathways to Success
News Release: Today, Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee Republican Leader Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on the vital role of Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)...

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Foxx on the American Rescue Sham’s One-Year Anniversary
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP)...

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US Department of Labor finds two Georgia Zaxby’s franchise locations endangered young workers, violated child labor, overtime laws
News Release: ATHENS, GA - A federal investigation has found two Zaxby’s franchise restaurants in Lilburn and Grayson endangered minor-aged employees and allowed them to work outside of prescribed hours, in violation of federal child labor laws.
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Foxx on Surprise Billing Court Ruling
News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding yesterday’s federal court ruling on surprise medical billing...

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Foxx Slams Democrats’ Response to Florida’s Parental Rights Bill
News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement slamming Education Secretary Cardona’s response to the passage of the Parental Rights in Education bill, in the Florida State Legislature...
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Foxx on Biden’s State of the Union in Crisis
News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement reacting to President Biden’s State of the Union in crisis...
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Foxx, Allen Call Out POTUS for Indulging Big Labor Demands
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 Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Marty Walsh warning that the recommendations of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment (Task Force) will harm workers and taxpayers by exclusively focusing on the demands of union bosses.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Mid-Atlantic Region to host online Data Users Conference on April 20, 2022
Release: EVENT:
Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Data Users Conference (Mid-Atlantic Region)
WHO:
William Beach, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Terance Rephann, Regional Economist, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Jeffrey Hill, BLS Associate Commissioner, Office of Prices and Living Conditions ...

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US Department of Labor announces $10M in available funding to expand workforce development services for out-of-school time organizations
News Release: WASHINGTON - As they develop the habits, skills and other traits needed for future success, young people from age 14 to 21 have a limited window of opportunity. That’s why, when school is not in session, out-of-school time organizations provide supervised programs for young people and expose them to career options that prepare them better to enter and succeed in the workforce.

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US Department of Labor, Trucking Alliance partnership seeks to expand use of Registered Apprenticeships to train, employ needed drivers
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced its partnership with the Trucking Alliance - an industry-based safety coalition of freight transportation and logistics companies - to join the administration’s 90-Day Trucking Apprenticeship Challenge , and promote the apprenticeship model as a solution to get more well-trained drivers to work in good-paying jobs.
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Petition for Modification of Application of Existing Mandatory Safety Standards discussed on March 8 by Labor Department
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

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Labor Department discusses Petition for Modification of Application of Existing Mandatory Safety Standards on March 8
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

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Sen. Murray: American Rescue Plan Powered Economic Recovery by Helping People Go To Work and Take Care of Their Families
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, ahead of the one year anniversary since the American Rescue Plan was signed into law, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on how the American Rescue Plan powered the economic recovery by keeping child care providers open, supporting home- and community-based services (HCBS), and supporting workers and families.

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Notice published by Labor Department on March 8
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

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American Rescue Plan Got Kids Back in the Classroom Safely; Is Helping Students Catch Up
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, ahead of the one year anniversary since President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the ways the law’s $122 billion in K-12 funding and $3 billion for IDEA programs have helped students get back into the classroom safely and is helping students recover academically and emotionally.

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Court orders Massachusetts employer who threatened employee to pay $25K in punitive damages, plus $164K in wages, damages to underpaid employees
News Release: BOSTON - Following an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor, a federal court ordered a Holbrook tree service company and its owner - who threatened a former employee who participated in an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division - to pay the worker $25,000 in punitive damages.

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US Department of Labor to provide compliance training to logistics, warehousing, transportation employers in Acadiana on March 17
Release: WHO: U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division

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Labor Department discusses Petition for Modification of Application of Existing Mandatory Safety Standards on March 8
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

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