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News Release: LASALLE, CO – A federal workplace safety investigation into the death of a 44-year-old worker, who drowned when the vacuum truck he was driving entered an unguarded manure holding pit, concluded that a LaSalle dairy farm failed to protect its workers from drowning and chemical hazards.
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US Department of Labor awards $68M in grants for training, reemployment, supportive services to unemployed, underemployed workers
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of nearly $68 million in grant funding to help 29 organizations in 20 states and territories connect job seekers to employment as the economy continues its recovery from the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. The grant awards are part of a total $90 million in funding announced on Aug. 19 , 2021.
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US Department of Labor announces $10.5M in state grant funding to support mine safety, health throughout the nation
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration has awarded $10,537,000 in grant funding to support safety and health training, and other programs. MSHA awarded grants to 46 states, the Navajo Nation and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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US Department of Labor releases annual report on worst forms of child labor, new tool to track illicitly made goods, updates on apps to combat abuses
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the release of the 20th annual edition of the “Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor.” Prepared by the department’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs , the report shines a spotlight on child labor abuses globally and describes progress made by some countries in upholding their international commitments to eliminate these abuses.
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Highmark Health subsidiary agrees to pay $410K to resolve alleged compensation discrimination found in federal compliance evaluation
News Release: PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh-based company that provides IT support to health plan providers has agreed to pay $410,000 in back pay and interest after a federal compliance evaluation alleged the federal contractor’s pay practices discriminated against 67 employees in the Associate Consultant and Consultant ...
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Court orders Northern New Jersey car washes, oil change shop to pay $325K in back wages, damages to 45 employees for underpaying workers
News Release: WESTWOOD, NJ – Owners of two Westwood car wash establishments and an oil change shop routinely shortchanged employees who worked long hours doing physically demanding work. As a result of a federal investigation and recent court order, the firm must pay $325,000 in back wages and liquidated damages for failing to pay the minimum wage and overtime. Some employees who worked as many as 70 hours in a workweek received only straight time for all the hours they worked.
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US Department of Labor cites Colorado dairy farm operator for violations after vacuum truck driver suffers fatal injuries in unguarded manure pit
News Release: LASALLE, CO - A federal workplace safety investigation into the death of a 44-year-old worker, who drowned when the vacuum truck he was driving entered an unguarded manure holding pit, concluded that a LaSalle dairy farm failed to protect its workers from drowning and chemical hazards.
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Owens: Lean on Scientific Facts, Not Political Fictions
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Burgess Owens (R-UT) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on safe school reopenings...
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@EdLaborGOP to DOL: Scrap the Job-Killing Vaccine Mandate
News Release: Today, every Republican Member of the Education and Labor Committee, led by Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), sent a letter to Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh requesting he immediately suspend work on the inappropriate, unprecedented, and likely unlawful national mandate for COVID-19 vaccination and testing in the workplace.
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“NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022” published by the Congressional Record on Sept. 23
“NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022” published by Congressional Record on Sept. 23
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“INFLATION UNDERMINES AMERICAN FAMILIES” published by the Congressional Record on Sept. 22
“INFLATION UNDERMINES AMERICAN FAMILIES” published by the Congressional Record on Sept. 22
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US Department of Labor awards $1M in Brookwood-Sago grants for mine safety education, training to 13 recipients
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced the award of $1 million in Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety grant program funding to support education and training to help identify, avoid and prevent unsafe working conditions in and around the nation’s mines.
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US Department of Labor awards more than $11.6M in grants to educate workers, employers on workplace safety, health
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced the award of more than $11.6 million in grants to 93 nonprofit organizations nationwide to fund education and training on hazard recognition and prevention, and on rights of workers to safe workplaces and the responsibilities of employers to provide them.
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US Department of Labor cites JBS Foods Inc. for repeated safety failures after worker’s death at Swift Beef’s Colorado facility
News Release: GREELEY, CO – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited JBS Foods Inc. – one of the nation’s largest meat and pork suppliers – again, for exposing employees to safety hazards at its Greeley facilities, this time following the death of a worker who was installing a paddlewheel.
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US Department of Labor awards $1M in Brookwood-Sago grants for mine safety education, training to 13 recipients
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced the award of $1 million in Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety grant program funding to support education and training to help identify, avoid and prevent unsafe working conditions in and around the nation’s mines.
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US Department of Labor cites JBS Foods Inc. for repeated safety failures after worker’s death at Swift Beef’s Colorado facility
News Release: GREELEY, CO – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited JBS Foods Inc. – one of the nation’s largest meat and pork suppliers – again, for exposing employees to safety hazards at its Greeley facilities, this time following the death of a worker who was installing a paddlewheel.
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US Department of Labor awards more than $11.6M in grants to educate workers, employers on workplace safety, health
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced the award of more than $11.6 million in grants to 93 nonprofit organizations nationwide to fund education and training on hazard recognition and prevention, and on rights of workers to safe workplaces and the responsibilities of employers to provide them.
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US Department of Labor cites JBS Foods Inc. for repeated safety failures after worker's death at Swift Beef's Colorado facility
News Release: GREELEY, CO - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited JBS Foods Inc. - one of the nation's largest meat and pork suppliers - again, for exposing employees to safety hazards at its Greeley facilities, this time following the death of a worker who was installing a paddlewheel.
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Spartz: President Biden is Creating Another Pandemic - Misinformation
News Release: Today, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at the joint subcommittee hearing on successful models for protecting communities from COVID-19...
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US Department of Labor awards more than $11.6M in grants to educate workers, employers on workplace safety, health
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced the award of more than $11.6 million in grants to 93 nonprofit organizations nationwide to fund education and training on hazard recognition and prevention, and on rights of workers to safe workplaces and the responsibilities of employers to provide them.
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