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News Release: BAYVILLE, NJ - Following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation, an administrative law judge ordered a commercial landscaping company based in Bayville to pay 47 temporary landscaping workers $181,670.19 in back wages. The employer will also pay $38,329.81 in civil money penalties.
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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: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Financial Services Committee Republican Leader Patrick McHenry (R-NC) sent letters to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra and the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) Chief Operating Officer Richard Cordray regarding the agencies’ oversight of the federal student loan programs.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s latest endeavor on behalf of the Biden administration to expand union membership by urging the NLRB to overturn 50 years of precedent and reinstate the 1949 Joy Silk Mills standard, which empowers the NLRB to impose union representation on workers without an official election...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and the Austrian Minister for Digital and Economic Affairs Dr. Margarete Schramböck signed a memorandum of understanding today to expand Registered Apprenticeships among Austrian companies and Austrian-invested companies in the U.S. to promote job creation ...
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The US Labor Department published a three page notice on April 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: UNION CITY, CA - A federal investigation has recovered $176,193 in back wages for nine health care workers after the owner of four Bay Area residential care homes denied them overtime pay.
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News Release: Employer: Kevsal Inc., operating as Jose Tequilas Mexican Grill & Bar, 615 Thimble Shoals, Newport News Jose Tequilas Inc., operating as Jose Tequilas Mexican Grill & Bar, 2052 Lynnhaven Parkway, Virginia Beach Tapatio Inc., operating as Jose Tequilas Mexican Grill & Bar, 2101 McComas Way, Virginia ...
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There was activity on five bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on April 14.
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News Release: HONOLULU - A federal investigation recovered $153,070 in back wages and liquidated damages for 17 workers of a Honolulu bakery and café whose operator denied them their overtime wages and endangered the safety of minor-aged workers.
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The US Labor Department published a three page notice on April 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Planned Parenthood leaders and a Title X patient at a Planned Parenthood health center in Seattle to talk about how the $4.5 million in Title X funding she helped deliver for Washington state will get patients the reproductive health care they need—and how she will keep fighting to protect and strengthen the program in the face of Republicans’ extreme attacks on reproductive rights.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on April 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WESTON, WI - An employee working at Crystal Finishing Systems Inc.’s aluminum extrusion facility in Weston was hospitalized with serious injuries after being struck by a puller machine while trying to unjam a piece of aluminum.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - For the first time, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched a National Emphasis Program to protect millions of workers from heat illness and injuries. Through the program, OSHA will conduct heat-related workplace inspections before workers suffer completely preventable injuries, illnesses or, even worse, fatalities.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on April 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WESTON, WI - An employee working at Crystal Finishing Systems Inc.’s aluminum extrusion facility in Weston was hospitalized with serious injuries after being struck by a puller machine while trying to unjam a piece of aluminum.
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Release: Date of action: April 1, 2022
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Representatives Scott, Lee, Frankel Call Upon GAO to Conduct Study on Caregiving Youth