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Recent News About US Department of Labor (DOL)
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Statement by US Secretary of Labor Walsh on May Jobs Report
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Central New Jersey facility to pay $273K, take corrective actions to resolve COVID-related respirator violations
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US Department of Labor finds Miami electrical subcontractor underpaid eight workers $37K in pay, benefits
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There were four notices published by the Labor Department in week ending June 18, according to the Federal Register.
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The United States Department of Labor wants to remind Midwest employers that workers need protection from dangers caused by heat illness, both indoors and outdoors.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force, which includes the U.S. Department of Labor as a member, today issued the “Strategy to Prevent Importation of Goods Mined, Produced, or Manufactured with Forced Labor in the People’s Republic of China," as required by the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
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News Release: SUCCASUNNA, NJ - A federal court has approved a consent judgment ordering a Succasunna landscaping company and its owner to pay $400,000 in back wages and damages after the U.S. Department of Labor found the employer denied 32 of its workers the overtime pay they earned.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration has proposed nearly $1.2 million in civil penalties to M-Class Mining LLC, a Macedonia, Illinois, coal mine operator. MSHA cited the operator for continuing to operate the mine without evacuating miners with a fire underground and failing to notify MSHA of the fire. The fire broke out on a longwall section on Aug. 13, 2021.
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News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC); Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA); and Representative Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) sent a letter to U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) perform a study on the role of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in the pharmaceutical supply chain.
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News Release: SEATTLE - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation that uncovered a farm labor contractor’s already costly failures to protect migrant and seasonal agricultural workers took an unexpected turn when investigators found the same employer had denied 165 farm laborers more than $80,000 in overtime wages for hours spent cleaning the popular Gorge Amphitheater.
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A Wisconsin court has sentenced a former Wisconsin union president who embezzled $219,000 from an employee benefit plan to eight months of home confinement.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, to honor the 34th anniversary of U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum’s (D-OH) introduction of the WARN Act, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced a revised version of...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a funding opportunity for $11.7 million in Susan Harwood Training Grants to support the delivery of training and education to help workers and employers identify and prevent workplace safety and health hazards.
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There was activity on four bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on June 17.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced $201,798,000 in funding to provide training, employment services in 45 states and Puerto Rico to eligible workers affected adversely by foreign trade.
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News Release: Employer: Riverstone Logistics LLC Investigation site: 13860 Ballantyne Corporate Place, Charlotte, NC 28277 Investigation findings: U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found Riverstone Logistics LLC misapplied exemptions and paid employees a flat salary without an additional ...
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration reminded Great Lakes area employers that they must protect workers from the dangers of heat illness in hot indoor and outdoor environments.
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There was activity on two bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on June 16.
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There is one release scheduled to be published on June 21.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced new guidance published today by the department’s Wage and Hour Division on important limitations on the payment of subminimum wages under Section 511 of the Rehabilitation Act, which applies to certified employers otherwise authorized to pay subminimum wages to workers with disabilities under specific requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.