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Recent News About US Department of Labor (DOL)
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The NLRB Keeps Playing Footsies with Unions
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New GAO Report: Income-Driven Repayment System in Urgent Need of Reform
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News Release: WAUKEGAN, IL - A Waukegan contractor - with a history of violating federal safety standards and ignoring safety citations - was cited again by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for exposing workers to deadly fall hazards at two separate job sites in October 2021. Joshua Herion - who does business as ECS Roofing Professionals Inc. - faces proposed penalties of $360,531.
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The US Labor Department published a three page notice on April 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: EL PASO, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Texas metal fabricator for repeatedly exposing employees to fall, machine and other safety hazards. OSHA's most recent inspection of Kyoei Steel LTD - operating as Vinton Steel LLC - found 19 violations. The agency proposed penalties of $364,078.
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News Release: LANCASTER, PA - A federal court entered a consent judgment against a Pennsylvania home healthcare agency and its owner after investigators found they denied 193 direct care workers overtime pay.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking nominations for membership on the Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health for Part E of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act.
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News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD - Each year, hundreds of workers are injured - some fatally - on construction sites. So, as the spring construction season gets into full swing, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and more than 500 voluntary employee members of the Associated General Contractors of South Dakota are teaming up to protect workers from common construction industry hazards.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh today toured a treatment facility operated by the Spanish Fort Water System, an Alabama water utility company, to highlight efforts by the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to protect workers from heat-related hazards in the workplace.
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US Department of Labor, Puget Sound Shipbuilders Association renew alliance to promote worker safety
News Release: SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Puget Sound Shipbuilders Association in Seattle have renewed an alliance to continue a collaborative relationship that provides shipyard workers and companies with information about hazards and resources to promote safe, healthful workplaces and workers’ rights.
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News Release: AUGUSTA, ME - A Maine roofing and siding contractor, solely owned, operated and controlled by Andrew Raymond Pollock, willfully exposed its employees to fall hazards at a Hampden residential construction site on multiple occasions during the same inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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A Bayville, New Jersey commercial landscaping company must pay $181,670 in back wages and a little more than $38,000 in civil penalties for failing to pay 47 temporary workers prevailing wages or overtime.
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US Department of Labor, Puget Sound Shipbuilders Association renew alliance to promote worker safetyNews Release: SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Puget Sound Shipbuilders Association in Seattle have renewed an alliance to continue a collaborative relationship that provides shipyard workers and companies with information about hazards and resources to promote safe, healthful workplaces and workers’ rights.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published an eight page notice on April 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: CLEARWATER, FL - A federal investigation into how a 47-year-old carpenter was fatally injured on Oct. 6, 2021, at the Pinellas Gateway Express project in Clearwater found his employer violated safety standards by allowing workers to remain in a crane load’s danger zone.
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News Release: CLEARWATER, FL - A federal investigation into how a 47-year-old carpenter was fatally injured on Oct. 6, 2021, at the Pinellas Gateway Express project in Clearwater found his employer violated safety standards by allowing workers to remain in a crane load’s danger zone.
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News Release: WAUKEGAN, IL - A Waukegan contractor - with a history of violating federal safety standards and ignoring safety citations - was cited again by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for exposing workers to deadly fall hazards at two separate job sites in October 2021. Joshua Herion - who does business as ECS Roofing Professionals Inc. - faces proposed penalties of $360,531.
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The Florida State Board of Administration will not make new investments with Chinese firms, it announced in March.