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News Release: MIAMI - A Miami electrical and engineer contractor shortchanged eight workers by denying them a portion of their wages and benefits while they worked on a federally funded project at the Everglades National Park Flamingo Visitor Center in Homestead, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found.
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Associated General Contractors of Missouri renewed their 25-year partnership.
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News Release: IMLER, PA - After a 40-year-old worker suffered the partial amputation of one finger and an injury to a second one while cleaning a machine at a metal buildings manufacturer in January 2022, federal workplace safety inspectors found the company willfully exposed the worker to amputation hazards.
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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 Tim Kaine (D-VA) led Senators, House members, and advocates from across the country in a rally on Capitol Hill to call for their child care and early learning proposal to be included in reconciliation to lower costs for families, get parents back to work, support the child care workforce, and boost our entire economy.
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There was activity on one bill related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on June 9.
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News Release: SWAINSBORO, GA - A Swainsboro pillow manufacturer whose history of safety and health violations includes three different incidents related to workers suffering amputation injuries is once again the focus of a federal workplace safety investigation, this time involving numerous repeat and serious violations.
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News Release: PHOENIX - A federal investigation has recovered $348,380 in back wages and liquidated damages for 144 underpaid workers of an Arizona construction employer who failed to pay their overtime wages.
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News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $31,757 for 93 workers of two Alabama senior residential facilities after its investigations found the employers denied the workers overtime wages.
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News Release: CANTON, GA - A Canton tire retailer and auto shop shortchanged 19 workers by withholding first paychecks and paying overtime at rates lower than required, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has determined.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona questioning the administration’s authority and ability to enact blanket student loan forgiveness.
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There was activity on three bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on June 8.
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There is one release scheduled to be published on June 10.
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There is one release scheduled to be published on June 10.
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News Release: DETROIT - A federal judge has found Independent Home Care of Michigan LLC and its owners Mary Clark and Kathryn Flick liable to pay 23 home healthcare workers a total of $93,331 - representing $46,665 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages- after the company failed to pay companion workers overtime wages.
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News Release: ATHENS, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic partnership with McCarthy Building Companies to promote worker safety and health during the construction of a poultry science lab at the University of Georgia in Athens.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration has launched a new enforcement initiative to better protect the nation’s miners from health hazards resulting from repeated overexposure to respirable crystalline silica. MSHA reports silica dust affects thousands of miners each year and, without adequate protection, miners face risks of serious illnesses, many of which can be fatal.
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News Release: IMLER, PA - After a 40-year-old worker suffered the partial amputation of one finger and an injury to a second one while cleaning a machine at a metal buildings manufacturer in January 2022, federal workplace safety inspectors found the company willfully exposed the worker to amputation hazards.
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News Release: SYRACUSE, NY - On Nov. 29, 2021, a supervisor at McDowell and Walker Inc. - a manufacturer and supplier of grains, feeds and other agricultural products - told an untrained employee to enter a grain bin to clear a feed buildup that clogged a silo entry point at the company’s Afton facility.
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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 Senate vote on the nomination of Lisa Gomez to serve as Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA).
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - United States Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led 23 of their Senate colleagues in a letter to President Biden urging him to immediately issue an executive order directing the federal government to develop a national plan to defend Americans’ fundamental reproductive rights, including their right to an abortion.