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News Release: (Washington, DC) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, announced she will hold a HELP Committee hearing on July 13th on the impact of the Dobbs decision on access to abortion and other reproductive services, including the effect restrictions...
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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 Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturns Roe v. Wade and ends the right to abortion.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee Republican Leader Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh urging the Department of Labor (DOL) to withdraw its Wagner-Peyser proposed rule, which will harm state efforts to fill the 11 million unfilled jobs across America.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade:
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News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh today brought together a group of highly engaged private sector business leaders on June 23, 2022, to share ideas and discuss the implications for equity and job quality of workplace flexibilities in the wake of massive changes caused by the pandemic.
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In an effort to create support for quality jobs, the U.S. Department of Labor held a Good Jobs Summit in Washington, D.C.
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A federal judge is ordering two San Juan eateries and their owners to pay $31,630 to 19 workers for back wages after an investigation discovered they violated federal law.
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The U.S. Department of Labor's division of Wage and Hour has issued supplemental information to clarify specific requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act for employers authorized to pay sub-minimum wages to workers with disabilities.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Department of Education released its proposed Title IX regulations...
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News Release: MEMPHIS, TN - The operator of a Memphis Schlotzsky’s restaurant endangered minor-aged workers, the U.S. Department of Labor found after an investigation into a 16-year-old worker’s thumb injury.
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News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Republican Leader Richard Burr (R-NC) are requesting an explanation from Education Department Secretary Miguel Cardona following reports that a radical lobbying group is influencing higher education policies.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a funding availability of up to $1 million in grants through its Brookwood-Sago grant program to support education and training to help the mining community identify, avoid and prevent unsafe and unhealthy working conditions in and around the nation’s mines.
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS), Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO), Ranking Member of the LHHS Subcommittee, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Chair of the House...
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There was activity on 12 bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on June 23.
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The U.S. Departments of Labor and Commerce joined forces and released the Good Jobs Principles, which is a coordinated effort to aid employers, workers, federal agencies, state and local governments and other advocates.
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There was activity on seven bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on June 23.
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News Release: Dear Leader Schumer and Speaker Pelosi...
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News Release: (Washington, DC) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the following statement on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement that it is ordering all Juul electronic cigarettes removed from the U.S. market.
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News Release: Today, the House passed the Keep Kids Fed Act, bipartisan legislation that will provide temporary and targeted relief for school meal programs as schools struggle with inflation and supply chain issues. Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor in support of the bill and the need to rein in our nation’s school meal programs...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $43,268,819 in grants to organizations in 11 states in the initial round of grant funding to support programs that provide job training and supportive services to justice-involved young people.