US Department of Labor (DOL)
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Recent News About US Department of Labor (DOL)
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Federal judge finds Michigan home healthcare provider liable for $93K in overtime back wages, damages to 23 workers
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Federal court orders Arizona construction employer to pay coercive fines of up to $120K every three months if it continues to falsify employee time records
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News Release: WINSTON-SALEM, NC - A North Carolina pizza chain’s pay practices denied full wages to 63 workers at three locations in Clemmons, Greensboro and Winston-Salem. The employer paid as little as $1.19 per hour as a cash wage to workers, which forced them to rely almost entirely on tips for their income, a federal investigation has found.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - 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) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona demanding clarity on the Department’s statutory authority for its recent and proposed executive actions on student loans.
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There is one release scheduled to be published on June 17.
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There are five releases scheduled to be published on June 17.
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FY 22 Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Training and Other Activities (TaOA) Grant Management Guidance. grant opened on June 16.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today released its inaugural Enterprise Data Strategy , a three-year plan by the department’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy that will guide department efforts to improve its data collection, management and use and enhance its ability to share data to advance opportunity and equity for the nation’s workers.
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), led a press conference reiterating their call to President Biden to immediately issue an executive order to defend Americans’ reproductive rights, including their right to an abortion.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in introducing the Health and Location Data Protection Act, legislation that bans data brokers from selling some of the most...
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There was activity on three bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on June 15.
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News Release: ROBBINSVILLE, NJ - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation into the fatal fall of a contractor at a Robbinsville frozen food manufacturer identified a wide range of potentially fatal workplace hazards at CJ TMI Manufacturing America LLC, leading the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue the employer citations for 36 violations and propose $368,513 in penalties.
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News Release: LAKE CITY, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor recovered a total of $8,931 in back wages for two workers of a Lake City assisted living facility after its investigation found the employer denied paying them overtime wages they earned and illegally terminated one of the workers after they exercised their right to federally protected medical leave.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Oversight and Reform Committee Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY) raised ethical questions about Biden administration officials poised to receive a financial windfall from the administration’s proposal to forgive at least...
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There was activity on four bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on June 15.
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A Pennsylvania Wendy’s restaurant franchisee took steps to correct violations of federal child labor standards after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found teens were working too many hours per day and per week.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent letters to five federal agencies under the Committee’s jurisdiction to raise concerns about the Biden administration’s lack of constitutional and statutory authority to enact the Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting.
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US Department of Labor reminds Dakota employers that workers need protection from the dangers of heat illness: indoors, outdoors
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US Labor Department announces alliance with Kansas City Electrical Apprenticeship and Training Committee to promote workplace safety
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National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health will meet on June 30