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News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - A federal workplace safety investigation into how an employee suffered a fatal electrocution while digging a shallow drainage trench under a home has found that a Savannah crawl space remediation company might have prevented the incident by following required safety standards.
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News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to rulings from Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and a federal judge in Missouri regarding the Biden administration’s student loan debt scheme...
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News Release: MARGATE, FL - Working at the bottom of a Margate canal on April 4, 2022, a young diver was removing sand with an industrial vacuum to restore an embankment project when sediment above collapsed onto him, leaving the 22-year-old worker trapped until he drowned.
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News Release: 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 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) Chairman Lauren M. McFerran requesting the agency return to manual, onsite, secret-ballot elections.
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News Release: IRVING, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration ordered ExxonMobil Corp. to immediately reinstate two employees and pay them more than $800,000 in back wages, interest and compensatory damages. A federal whistleblower investigation found the company terminated them illegally after suspecting them of leaking information to the Wall Street Journal.
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News Release: MILLVILLE, NJ - A Pennsylvania-based metal coatings company that enacted a comprehensive safety and health program to protect workers at its corporate headquarters failed to do the same for employees at a manufacturing facility it opened in the fall of 2021 in Millville, a federal workplace safety investigation has found.
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An additional 64,716 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for the fiscal year 2023 will be available to employers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in collaboration with the Department of Labor (DOL), has announced.
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News Release: CHICAGO - Employing interactive online reporting tools, virtual job planning sites and new employee orientations with a commitment to safety are some of the hallmarks of the Power Construction Co.'s innovative safety and health program.
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An auto-parts maker in Alabama is under a federal court order to stop illegally employing workers as young as 13 years old to perform hazardous duties.
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There is one release scheduled to be published on Oct. 21.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: Who: U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Oct. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: HONOLULU - The U.S. Department of Labor has found a Kauai restaurant allowed eight minors, some as young as 15-years-old, to cook and bake in violation of federal laws that prohibit employers from assigning hazardous occupations to underage employees, and denied overtime wages to 18 employees.
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Two workers for a Jackson, Mississippi, ground delivery contractor who were not paid for work they performed from their residences off-the-clock have been awarded $44,280 in back wages and liquidated damages by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor Consulate of Mexico in New Orleans Mexican Consul Tito Livio Morales Burelo and Wage and Hour Division District Director Troy Mouton in New Orleans recently renewed an agreement to work jointly to educate native Mexicans working in Louisiana and Mississippi ...
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News Release: SONOMA, CA - The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $54,935 in lost wages for 14 farmworkers after an investigation found that a California grape grower gave workers employed under the H-2A agricultural worker program more hours and better wages than those provided to U.S. workers, in violation of federal law.
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A lawsuit has been filed against an Alexandria, Va., cybersecurity provider and federal contractor for allegedly firing an employee with a disability.
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News Release: PATERSON, NJ - The U.S. Department of Labor has issued citations to three New Jersey contractors who willfully exposed employees to potentially lethal dangers by allowing them to work near energized power lines at a Paterson worksite.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Oct. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.