News and reports from the Department of Labor.

A federal probe into the deaths of two workers at an Oregon, Ohio, refinery’s crude unit found that BP Products North America violated U.S. Department of Labor’s process safety procedures for highly-hazardous materials and failed to adequately train the workers.

Students in Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers provided 204,633 total hours of support to federal firefighters in 2022, 20% more than the previous year, according to a release by the U.S. Department of Labor.

The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration found Dollar General and Dolgencorp LLC exposed workers to unsafe conditions in four locations in Florida and Georgia.

The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Texas-based oil and gas company Production Waste Solutions LLC for six serious safety and health violations after a worker was fatally exposed to hydrogen sulfide while working near a sump pit in September

A U.S. Department of Labor investigation into a Boca Grande resort's use of the federal H-2B program to employ non-immigrant workers has resulted in the recovery of $151,598 in back wages for nine workers and $49,401 in civil money penalties.

The U.S. Department of Labor has launched the Mega Construction Project Program to encourage equal opportunity for workers on federally funded construction projects valued at $35 million or more and lasting for more than one year.

The U.S. Department of Labor is undertaking several agency initiatives to combat gender and racial pay disparities and ensure pay equity in the implementation of various acts, including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Chips and Science and Inflation Reduction acts.

The Biden-Harris administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 aims to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out while lowering costs for families, protecting and strengthening Medicare and Social Security and reducing the deficit by asking the wealthy and big corporations to pay their fair share.

JGN Services, a roofing contracting company based in Lake Mary, Fla., has been fined $55,841 by the Wage and Hour Division for violating child labor regulations after a 15-year-old minor suffered severe head and spinal injuries due to a lack of federally required fall protection on a worksite.

The Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement requested the Mexican government review workers’ rights violations at Unique Fabricating’s Querétaro facility in Mexico.

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement's Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement has called for a review by the Mexican government after receiving a petition that workers’ rights are being violated at Unique Fabricating's facility in Queretaro, Mexico.

The U.S. Department of Labor found that a Lafayette, GA, insulation manufacturer ignored safety standards following an investigation into a worker's head injury

A federal court in New York has issued a restraining order against home care provider Sunrise Home Care to stop the company from retaliating against employees during an investigation into the company's compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act.

A federal court has sentenced the co-founder of several fake physical therapy clinics to 14 months in prison and more than $250,000 in restitution after a Department of Labor probe found the operators collected money from 15 self-funded healthcare benefit programs for services they never provided.

The US Labor Department published a two page proposed rule on March 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.