News and reports from the Department of Labor.

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Dec. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of a $3 million cooperative agreement project to Impactt Limited to increase the capacity of field workers and their families to advocate and organize for the improvement of working and living conditions in the Dominican Republic sugar industry.

The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration has imposed $250,272 in penalties on a Texas construction company it found exposed workers to deadly hazards after a trench collapse caused the death of two workers.

An administrative law judge with the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has affirmed U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration citations and $24,290 in penalties against a Brookfield, Vt., telecommunications contractor due to an employee’s death.

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Dec. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

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“UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST--EXECUTIVE CALENDAR” was published on pages S7817-S7818 of the Congressional Record on Dec. 20.

News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs entered into a consent decree with Rosemount Inc. of Chanhassen, Minnesota, and its subsidiary, Rosemount Specialty Products LLC. of Wenatchee, Washington, requiring the federal contractor to provide documents and information necessary to complete a scheduled compliance review of the company’s equal employment opportunity practices.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently cited Amazon for not recording work-related injuries and illnesses properly.

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement on the Senate’s passage of the omnibus appropriations bill which includes a package of bipartisan reforms she crafted with HELP Ranking Member Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) to strengthen families’ retirement and emergency savings and which she fought to include in the bill.

News Release: AUSTIN, TX - A federal investigation has determined that by failing to follow required workplace safety standards, a Georgetown construction contractor gave two workers installing sewer lines in an underground trench - more than two stories deep - little chance of survival when a large section of the excavation collapsed, crushing them under thousands of pounds of soil and rocks.

News Release: DALLAS - A federal investigation has determined that a Frisco utility contractor failed to follow required workplace safety standards when it allowed two workers to enter a trench with no protection system. The workers were digging the trench to repair a main sewer line. The trench collapsed and fatally engulfed one employee. The second worker was fortunate to escape.

News Release: NEW YORK - An administrative law judge with the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has affirmed U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration citations and $24,290 in penalties issued to Eustis Cable Enterprises Ltd., a Brookfield, Vermont, telecommunications contractor, following the death of an employee at an Andover, New York, worksite.

News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic partnership with Balfour Beatty Construction to promote worker safety and health during construction of the AC Marriott Hotel project in the Savannah River District.

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement on the Senate’s passage of an omnibus, which includes legislation she crafted with HELP Ranking Member Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) ...