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The heads of the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services discussed mental health and substance use disorder treatment equity with health insurance and business leaders May 3.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee; Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance and Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committees; Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chair of the Senate Finance Committee; and...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor has renewed a multi-year nationwide initiative to help workers and increase federal compliance by food service employers, an industry where - in fiscal year 2021 - the department’s Wage and Hour Division found violations in nearly 85 percent of its restaurant investigations.
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Assistant Democratic Leader Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) led a press conference with Democratic women Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), ...
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There are two releases scheduled to be published on May 23.
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There was activity on five bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on May 19.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx and several of her Committee Republicans sent a letter to the Biden administration urging an end to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) and a transferal of vaccine purchasing, distribution, and administering of vaccines and therapies to the private market.
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This bill is sponsored by Rep. Andy Biggs.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on May 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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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 Committee, released the following statement on the Senate’s unanimous passage of the Access to Baby Formula Act, legislation to address the infant formula shortage and ensure that...
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News Release: WASHINGTON -The U.S. Department of Labor and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will participate in the trans-Atlantic tripartite Trade and Labor Dialogue, which was announced at the U.S.-European Union Trade and Technology Council Ministerial meeting in Paris on May 15-16, 2022. The dialogue will join trade unions, businesses and governments in the U.S. and Europe to discuss trade and labor issues.
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There was activity on 10 bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on May 19.
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Release: Employer: Open Heart Senior Home Care LLC
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News Release: Employer name: Commodity Sales Co. Investigation site: 517 S. Clarence St. Los Angeles, CA 90033 Date: October 2018 - October 2021 Investigation findings: U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found the Los Angeles slaughterhouse and packing company terminated an employee ...
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News Release: Dear Mr. President: The United States is in the middle of an infant formula shortage crisis. After two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents and caregivers are exhausted. The last thing they need is to worry about finding safe infant formula to feed their babies-yet that is exactly the situation many...
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News Release: DALLAS ─ The U.S. Department of Labor will hold an online listening session for Southwest employees and their stakeholders on May 25, 2022, on possible revisions to the regulations that enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage and overtime exemptions for executive, administrative and professional employees.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement today requested that the Mexican government conduct a review at the Panasonic Automotive Systems electronic parts facility in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, in response to a petition filed under the USMCA alleging that plant workers there have been denied the rights of free association and collective bargaining.
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There was activity on three bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on May 18.
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) joined twelve of her Senate colleagues in sending letters to SafeGraph and Placer.ai, two data brokers, condemning the companies for collecting and selling the cellphone-based location data of people who visit abortion clinics and risking the...
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News Release: Today, Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at an Education and Labor Committee markup on bills ranging from school construction to onerous wage and hour penalties...