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News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Overtime wages owed to 215 security professionals who patrol Indianapolis International Airport’s grounds, guard local businesses, and provide round-the-clock traffic control in the area were paid following an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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News Release: DAYTON, OH - A federal investigation has recovered $133,661 in back wages for 63 workers of a Dayton home healthcare provider who misclassified its employees as independent contractors, denied workers overtime pay and falsified payroll records to hide the violations.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - As the overall economy continues to rebound from the pandemic, many of the workers most adversely affected - particularly women, people of color, people with disabilities, lower-wage workers and workers from other historically marginalized communities - continue to face persistent challenges with finding quality jobs.
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News Release: DENVER - One worker fell about 65 feet from an improperly elevated scaffold, suffering serious injuries, and a second worker avoided injury at a Denver construction site after three contractors on the job ignored a manufacturer’s safety recommendation not to use their climbing scaffold atop a lifting device, a federal workplace safety investigation has found.
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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) released this statement in response to the White House’s summary of the final rule issued by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) implementing the taxpayer-funded bailout of insolvent and failing multiemployer pension plans included in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)...
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on July 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on the final rule from the Department of Labor regarding the implementation of the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) program for multiemployer pensions within the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
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Release: Employer name: Maw’s CPS SA LLC
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An investigation conducted by the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found Alabama gas station cashiers at two locations were underpaid by their employer.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today posted a Frequently Asked Questions document to provide workers experiencing a worksite labor dispute with guidance on how to seek the department’s support for their requests to the Department of Homeland Security for immigration-related prosecutorial discretion.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement blasting the Biden administration’s proposed regulations regarding federal student loans...
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News Release: TEMPLE, TX - A federal workplace safety investigation into how an employee suffered serious injuries in January 2022 at a Temple manufacturing facility operated by Carpenter Co. - one of the nation’s largest cushion manufacturers - found the company had not installed adequate machine guards or locking devices on a hot laminating machine to protect workers from unsafe contact with the machine’s operating parts.
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News Release: ATLANTA - As temperatures and the risk of heat illness rise in Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration reminds employers and workers not to ignore the dangers of working in hot weather - indoors and out. Incorporating water, rest and shade can be the difference between ending the workday safely or suffering serious injuries or worse.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is asking Maine’s building construction industry to participate in a survey to help the agency establish prevailing wage rates, as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA).
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC), introduced a resolution celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Title IX-the landmark statute protecting students from discrimination on the basis of sex or gender.
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News Release: TEMPLE, TX - A federal workplace safety investigation into how an employee suffered serious injuries in January 2022 at a Temple manufacturing facility operated by Carpenter Co. - one of the nation’s largest cushion manufacturers - found the company had not installed adequate machine guards or locking devices on a hot laminating machine to protect workers from unsafe contact with the machine’s operating parts.
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News Release: DENVER - One worker fell about 65 feet from an improperly elevated scaffold, suffering serious injuries, and a second worker avoided injury at a Denver construction site after three contractors on the job ignored a manufacturer's safety recommendation not to use their climbing scaffold atop a lifting device, a federal workplace safety investigation has found.
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News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has recovered $123,750 in back wages and liquidated damages for 40 workers of a Hampton Beach clothing retailer after finding the employer paid some employees cash off the books and paid straight time for overtime for hours over 40 in a workweek.
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News Release: GREENCASTLE, PA - For the second time in a year, the U.S. Department of Labor has cited a Dollar General store in Greencastle for endangering its workers’ safety and continuing the nationwide discount chain’s long history of federal workplace safety violations and penalties.
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An Orange Park, Fla., landscape and property cleanup contractor's failure to follow occupational safety guidelines resulted in the death of a worker last December.