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The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges first responders, people in recovery efforts, and residents in areas affected by Tropical Storm Nicole to be aware of the many hazards that flooding, power loss, structural damage, fallen trees and storm debris may create.
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On May 5, 2022, an employee of an Everett demolition contractor lost his legs when a concrete mezzanine platform on the west wall of a building at the former Boston Edison power plant in South Boston collapsed during demolition and asbestos abatement operations.
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Three times in four months, federal safety inspectors observed workers employed by a Calumet City roofing contractor exposed to deadly fall hazards at job sites in Lake Zurich and Wheeling.
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With injury rates among the more than 90,000 food production workers in Illinois and Ohio significantly higher than other manufacturing workers, the U.S. Department of Labor has stepped up its outreach and enforcement efforts to reduce workplace hazards and better protect workers in these states.
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On June 2, 2022, a 39-year-old employee of a Mapleton foundry fell and was immediately incinerated in an 11-foot-deep pot of molten iron heated to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. A federal investigation determined that, if required safety guards or fall protection had been installed, the 39-year-old employee's ninth day on the job might not have been their last.
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Release: Who: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that an ongoing nationwide effort by its Wage and Hour Division focused on improving compliance by residential care, nursing facilities, home health services and other care-focused industry employers has made significant progress in protecting workers’ rights and protections.
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News Release: NEW YORK - The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following statement on today’s sentencing of George Laufenberg, former plan administrator of the Northeast Carpenters Benefit Funds, who pleaded guilty on June 3, 2022, to embezzling approximately $140,000 and making false statements to the department.
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The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking a nationwide temporary restraining order and injunction against a food safety sanitation company for its labor practices regarding minors.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: DALLAS - Home healthcare industry employers seek workers willing to work hard and long hours to meet the daily living and care needs of clients - some with limited mobility - in the comfort of their homes. Too often, the U.S. Department of Labor finds employers like four Texas and Louisiana providers who fail to hold up their part of the bargain by not paying nearly 600 employees all the wages they’ve earned.
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In honor of National Apprenticeship Week, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor to offer solutions to improve our nation’s workforce development programs.
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Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA) sent a letter to U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) examine the Office of Labor-Management Standards’ (OLMS) enforcement of worker protection laws as the Biden administration pushes to unionize the entire American workforce.
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Tonight, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman’s newest ruling that effectively incapacitates President Biden’s student loan bailout:
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Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra urging HHS to withdraw its proposed rule, titled “Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities,” which radically reinterprets the definition of “sex” to include gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy termination under the guise of nondiscrimination.
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Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to a new proposal put forth by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that would allow its own officials to subvert the will of American workers based on purely subjective grounds:
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It may no longer be Halloween, but it is still a frightening time to be an independent contractor or a franchisee.
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Today, the Education and Labor Committee released a new video of Dana Vargo, the spouse of a retired Teamster and a leading advocate in the fight to protect pension plans.
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Chairman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy added 261,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate rose to 3.7 percent.