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There was activity on six bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on June 16.
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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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News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) cosponsored the Educational Choice for Children Act, introduced by Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN), which would support parents’ right to choose school options that work for their family. Specifically, this legislation would...
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Targeted Topic Training grant opened on June 17.
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News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a hearing on the federal COVID response and the urgent need to pass emergency COVID funding amid threats of new COVID variants and a fall surge, with members...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - To improve the delivery of unemployment insurance services to people faced with obstacles to accessing state systems and benefits in Maryland, Nebraska and South Dakota, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $11,406,000 in equity grants.
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Training and Educational Materials Development grant opened on June 17.
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Capacity Building Developmental & Capacity Building Pilot grant opened on June 17.
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US Department of Labor recovers $31K for 93 workers following investigations at senior residential facilities in Alabaster, Anniston
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US Department of Labor recovers $161K in back wages, damages for 19 Georgia auto shop workers after finding minimum wage, overtime violations
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US Department of Labor recovers $166K in back wages for 732 convenience store workers in Oklahoma charged for uniforms, register shortages
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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.