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News Release: CLAIRTON, PA - A Pennsylvania manufacturer’s failure to provide guarding on a brick crushing machine ended in a 53-year-old worker suffering an arm amputation while operating the machine. A subsequent federal investigation at TYK America Inc.’s Clairton manufacturing facility found the company previously identified a deficiency with the machine’s guarding but kept the machine operational and did not repair the deficiency prior to the amputation incident.
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The U.S. Department of Labor and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative met with their counterparts in the Republic of Korea April 25 to strengthen and protect labor rights.
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OSHA Proposes $793k In Fines For Philadelphia Roofing Contractor Who Exposed Workers To Fall Hazards At 5 Southern New Jersey Locations
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US Department of Labor finds St. Louis recycling facility exposed workers to fall, machine hazards, places company in Severe Violator Program
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News Release: Company name: All Best Contractor Corp. 1403 Greeby St. Philadelphia, PA. Inspection sites: 30 Boardwalk Drive, Eastampton. 108 Bridge Blvd., Eastampton. 57 Westmont Drive, Medford. 99 Morley Blvd., Medford. Barrington Court, Building 3, Mt. Holly (inspected twice). Dates of inspections: The U.S. Department...
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding a recent report indicating that Facebook siphoned personal information of students and parents from the Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid (FSA) website...
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News Release: (Seattle, WA) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on International Workers’ Day.
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An investigation into a Michigan adult foster care business found it denied seven workers by misclassifying them as independent contractors, leading to the recovery of $94,706 for the workers.
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There were 30 press releases published by the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in April.
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There were 11 notices published by the Labor Department in week ending April 30, according to the Federal Register.
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The Senate section of the Congressional Record published “NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING” on April 26.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on April 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - During an online roundtable today held by the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, panelists discussed challenges workers face as they reenter the workforce after periods of unemployment.
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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 issued the following statement in light of recent reporting on new developments regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) slow response to food safety issues at an Abbott infant formula plant, which caused two deaths and one hospitalization.
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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, issued the following statement on the Oklahoma six-week abortion ban, which uses a Texas-style enforcement mechanism allowing for civil lawsuits against anyone who...
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News Release: ST. LOUIS ‒ Seeking to challenge an unfortunate fact in the cold steel manufacturing industry - where nearly 4 percent of all cold steel workers suffer recordable injuries each year - one Missouri company took action in 2016, setting a goal to change its safety culture to develop a better safety awareness and risk assessment of the potential for employee’s getting injured on the job.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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There was activity on five bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on April 28.
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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, joined U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and COVID survivor groups to honor the nearly 1 million Americans who have died from COVID-19 and urge their colleagues to pass the emergency COVID funding package and Senator Murray’s bipartisan PREVENT Pandemics Act, which the HELP Committee passed in an overwhelming bipartisan vote in March.