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News Release: Caterpillar of Irving, Texas - one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial vehicles and equipment - operates the foundry, which produces cast iron engine components.
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News Release: 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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News Release: Employer name: Nagase & Co. Ltd., operating as Armada Nutrition LLC
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today recognized 835 employers from around the nation for their commitment to hiring and retaining U.S. military veterans during an online event broadcast from the department’s Washington headquarters.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: MAPLETON, IL ‒ 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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News Release: CHICAGO ‒ 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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News Release: LINCOLN, NE - The U.S. Department of Labor today asked a federal court to issue a nationwide temporary restraining order and injunction against Packers Sanitation Services Inc. LTD - one of the nation’s leading providers of food safety sanitation - to stop the company from illegally employing dozens of minor-aged workers while the department continues its investigation of the company’s labor practices.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: BRAINTREE, MA - A Quincy-based roofing contractor exposed workers on the roofs of a garage and house in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood to potentially fatal falls from heights between seven and 21 feet, U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found.
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News Release: CHICAGO ‒ 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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U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh said 261,000 jobs were added to the American economy in October, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Nov. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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National Farmworker Jobs Program Youth Grants grant opened on Nov. 9.
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Federal court orders Illinois home healthcare company, president, owner, to restore more than $85K to employee retirement plan
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A federal court judge has ordered TPP Holdings Inc., an Atlanta architecture and interior design firm operating as The Preston Partnership, LLC, and its CEO, Robert N. Preston, to restore $540,658 to TPP’s employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) following an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Citing an unprecedent rise in global energy costs, Century Aluminum Co. – the nation’s largest producer of primary aluminum – announced plans in June 2022 to curtail operations and begin the idling process at its Hawesville, Kentucky, smelter until energy prices return to more normalized levels.
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In October, the U.S. economy added 261,000 jobs, bringing the 3-month average to 289,000 jobs per month. The unemployment rate rose to 3.7% but remained near historic lows.