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News Release: Employer name: IV Waste LLC Investigation site: 730 South Pierce St. New Orleans, LA 70119 Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found IV Waste LLC denied overtime wages to 105 employees by paying some a daily rate for hours worked over 40 in a workweek, and ...
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News Release: ALEXANDRIA, VA - The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to prohibit a federal contractor and its owners from retaliating against former and current employees who cooperate with an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division.
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News Release: DUETTE, FL - A federal workplace safety investigation has found a 35-year-old farmworker died from heat illness on a Duette farm in the early evening of April 5, 2022. It was only his second day on the job.
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News Release: HONOLULU - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has recovered $28,455 in unpaid overtime wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages from a Big Island nursery and landscaping company after they failed to pay overtime wages to 37 employees.
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News Release: AUGUSTA, ME - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Maine Department of Labor Workplace Safety and Health Division’s SafetyWorks! outreach program, and the Construction Safety Alliance of Maine signed an alliance to promote workplace safety and health and educate construction employers and workers in the state on safety and health hazards.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced its Veterans’ Employment and Training Service has signed a memorandum of understanding with nine new partners who have agreed to support the agency’s Employment Navigator and Partnership Pilot. With these additions, VETS has recruited 33 partners to support the pilot.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $70.8 million in grant funding to 166 Indian and Native American entities to help provide employment and training services to low-income and unemployed Native American adults and youth - including American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian adults and youth - and create pathways to middle-class careers.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of nearly $26 million in grant funding to improve how unemployment insurance benefits are delivered to people facing obstacles to access in California, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada and West Virginia.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: Employer: Always Reliable Management Services Inc.
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News Release: NORTH BARRINGTON, IL - A Roselle contractor with a long history of federal workplace safety violations who currently owes more than $390,000 in penalties, added an additional $303,105 in proposed fines for once again exposing workers to potential deadly fall hazards at a North Barrington job site.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: NORTH BARRINGTON, IL - A Roselle contractor with a long history of federal workplace safety violations who currently owes more than $390,000 in penalties, added an additional $303,105 in proposed fines for once again exposing workers to potential deadly fall hazards at a North Barrington job site.
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There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 24.
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News Release: AUGUSTA, ME - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Maine Department of Labor Workplace Safety and Health Division's SafetyWorks! outreach program, and the Construction Safety Alliance of Maine signed an alliance to promote workplace safety and health and educate construction employers and workers in the state on safety and health hazards.
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News Release: PITTSBURGH - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $65,640 in back wages and liquidated damages for three workers at two Pittsburgh-area gas station and convenience stores after its investigation found the employer had a history of shortchanging workers and violating federal overtime laws.
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News Release: SABINE PASS, TX - A federal workplace investigation has found two companies’ failures to follow required safety standards endangered the lives of nine workers who found themselves trapped - nearly 30 stories high - atop a burning jack-up drilling platform decommissioned in the Anchorage Basin near a Sabine Pass shipyard.
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News Release: TARRYTOWN, NY - A Nanuet roofing and siding contractor with a significant history of safety violations and penalties now faces an additional $1,343,363 in penalties after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated another fatal fall by a company employee, the second in three years.
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News Release: TAMPA, FL - A federal court has ordered Tampa Electric Co. to implement a safety compliance plan audited by an independent third party, pay a $500,000 penalty and be subject to 36 months of probation after Tampa Electric pleaded guilty to willfully violating an OSHA standard, which caused five worker...
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“TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2017“ was published in the House section on pages H10548-H10550 on Dec. 21, 2018