News and reports from the Department of Labor.

A 42-year-old employee of a Crest Hill frozen-pizza manufacturer suffered a fatal injury while cleaning a machine on July 20, 2021.

The U.S. Department of Labor – in collaboration with the Departments of the Treasury, State, Commerce, Homeland Security and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative – today issued a Burma Business Advisory highlighting the risks of doing business due to corruption, illicit finance and human rights abuses.

The owner of a Somerset, Ky., home health care agency will spend a year and a day in prison and pay nearly $260,000 for keeping employees' payroll taxes and contributions for health care benefits.

News Release: WASHINGTON - Increasingly, U.S. industries are using robotic technologies to perform dangerous or repetitive tasks, and these systems are becoming more collaborative and mobile in nature. While these advances add new capabilities to work and the workplace, they also introduce new workplace hazards for those who work with, and alongside them.

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding House Democrats’ so-called China competitiveness bill...

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a funding opportunity for organizations to provide training and employing services to veterans combating homelessness.

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: HONOLULU - A Hawaii company that provides security officers to the state’s National Guard, the Hawaii State Arts Museum, Foster Botanical Gardens and other public and private facilities, will pay $1,539,773 in back wages and liquidated damages to 171 guards - and civil penalties - after a federal investigation determined the company denied workers overtime pay illegally.

News Release: HARTFORD, CT - The U.S. Marshals Service facilitated the seizure of $126,250 in back wages and liquidated damages and $22,413 in attorney’s fees from the corporate bank account of a New London home healthcare provider after the employers reneged on a payment agreement and defied orders from the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

News Release: TAMPA, FL - When three Arcadia citrus farm labor contractors failed to comply with the requirements of the federal H-2A agricultural worker visa program, they shortchanged 123 employees - owing them $72,609 in total wages.

The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Biden administration withdrew its emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring millions of private sector workers to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine or test weekly. Yet the administration failed to withdraw its proposed rule, setting the stage for another tyrannical vaccine mandate in the next few months.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and Ranking Member, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), released a discussion draft of the Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging New Threats, and Pandemics Act (PREVENT...

News Release: NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - Laws protecting the wages of tipped workers apply whether they work in restaurants or in grocery stores where food is served. A South Carolina employer learned this expensive lesson after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that its Veterans’ Employment and Training Service will extend its traditional Transition Assistance Program curriculum beyond the active military installations it currently serves to at least 50 locations in at least 20 states to expand their efforts to improve employment-related outcomes in areas where large veteran populations face high rates of unemployment.