News and reports from the Department of Labor.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking by the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to improve worker safety and health by ensuring the agency’s general industry and construction industry rules reflect current industry practice and state-of-the-art technology.

News Release: TURLOCK, CA - Too often, federal investigators find foreign-born workers brought to the U.S. fail to receive the rights and protections they are legally due. Employers don’t pay them as the law requires, and transport them in unsafe vehicles and house them in overcrowded - and sometimes hazardous - conditions. Employers who exploit these workers gain an unfair advantage over industry competitors and lower standards for domestic workers.

News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the employer involved in a February 2021 double fatality at a downtown Boston worksite and his successor company again for failing to provide employees with essential and required safeguards, this time at an East Boston residential construction site.

News Release: WASHINGTON - In response to the March 25, 2020, reauthorization of the Older Americans Act through the Supporting Older Americans Act of 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor today published two notices to revise its Senior Community Service Employment Program regulations to conform to the changes.

News Release: PORT ARTHUR, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit against a Florida security contractor that terminated a worker after they raised concerns in a work group chat on a secure messaging app about safe firearm storage and coronavirus-related workplace hazards, including a lack of physical distancing and other potential exposure risks.

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 on supporting workers facing challenges finding good, high-paying jobs by ensuring they have access to high-quality workforce development opportunities.

The U.S. Department of Labor will reportedly hire 100 new wage and hour investigators as part of its "significantly more hiring activity" expected later this year, the division acting administrator said in a news release.

Individuals who received nonfraudulent overpayment of unemployment insurance benefits during the still on-going pandemic may benefit from "blanket waiver" recovery under new federal guidelines

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration awarded West Fargo its “star level” from its Voluntary Protection Programs.

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate voted to confirm Dr. Robert Califf to serve as Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by a vote of 50-46.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking by the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to improve worker safety and health by ensuring the agency’s general industry and construction industry rules reflect current industry practice and state-of-the-art technology.

There were 66 press releases published by the U.S. Department of Labor in January.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an initial award of $2,968,350 to support disaster-relief employment for individuals to assist with cleanup and recovery efforts, and to provide employment and training services in northern California after devastating wildfires between July and October 2021, which burned extensively throughout the national forests there.

More than 90 people in the U.S. die every day from opioid overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which for New York means a 11.5% increase in deaths between June 2020 and last summer.

News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the employer involved in a February 2021 double fatality at a downtown Boston worksite and his successor company again for failing to provide employees with essential and required safeguards, this time at an East Boston residential construction site.