News and reports from the Department of Labor.

News Release: Today, Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a joint subcommittee hearing on examining the implementation of COVID-19 education funds...

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Assistant Speaker of the House Katherine Clark (D-MA-5), Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-7), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX-29), Elissa Slotkin...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration on Oct. 25 announced Field Assistance Bulletin 2021-02, “Temporary Enforcement Policy on Prohibited Transaction Rules Applicable to Investment Advice Fiduciaries.”

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor on Nov. 10 presented the 2021 Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing American Military Veterans Medallion Award to 849 employers from across the nation at a virtual ceremony.

News Release: Over the past nearly two years, we have seen a troubling trend take root in the Democrat Party. Their elected officials want to take power away from parents and hand over more control to politicians and teachers unions to dictate what our children should be taught in classrooms.

The U.S. Department of Labor, National Labor Relations Board and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced a joint initiative to raise awareness about retaliation issues when workers exercise their protected labor rights.

News Release: DENTON, TX - As the coronavirus began to spread rapidly across the nation in March 2020, an employee of one of the world’s largest manufacturers of light, medium and heavy-duty trucks told a supervisor of their concerns about exposure to the virus at the Denton facility.

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee Republican Leader Greg Murphy, M.D. (R-NC) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a joint subcommittee hearing on examining the implementation of COVID-19 education funds...

News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor to celebrate National Apprenticeship Week and the importance of these programs.

News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in opposition to President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine-and-testing mandate for American employers and employees.

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined every Republican Committee Member in cosponsoring a Congressional Review Act resolution, introduced by Workforce Protections Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA), to nullify the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine-and-testing mandate for American employers and employees.

News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh today issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announcement of a new worksite enforcement strategy : “Labor laws exist to provide a basic level of protection for all workers in the U.S. When employers take advantage of immigrant ...

News Release: MARINETTE, WI – Recent federal safety inspections of a northern Wisconsin foundry determined workplace safety failures caused two workers to suffer severe injuries. In May, a worker lost two fingers to amputation and in July, an overhead hot metal carrier struck and injured another worker. While the ...

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a new emergency temporary standard to protect more than 84 million workers from the spread of the coronavirus on the job. The nation’s unvaccinated workers face grave danger from workplace exposure to coronavirus, and immediate action is necessary to protect them.