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Northern Mariana Islands will receive a supplemental award of $800,000 to support continued pandemic-related, disaster-relief employment, the U.S. Department of Labor reported in a March 14 news release.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration today announced that the department is extending the public comment period for proposed amendments to its procedures governing the filing and processing of Prohibited Transaction Exemption Applications by an additional 45 days, through May 29, 2022.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Department of Labor announced they are raising the cap of H-2B visas for the second half of fiscal year 2022.
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A U.S. Department of Labor judge recently ordered a Frostproof, Fla., farm labor contractor to pay nearly $250,000 in owed back wages to employees and civil penalties.
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News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is partnering with several construction organizations to promote worker safety through a safety stand down taking place at Georgia construction sites and traffic work zones, April 11-15.
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News Release: Participant: Pfizer Inc. Andover, Massachusetts Description: Pfizer employs about 1700 workers at the Andover site, which produces biotherapeutic pharmaceuticals. Employees conduct research and development, and manufacture recombinant DNA-derived protein therapeutics and vaccines. The site uses a wide ...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded more than $189 million to workforce agencies in 49 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia to operate their Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments programs. This award is a $40 million increase over the ...
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A Louisville, Ky., employment service must pay $538,076 in back wages and damages for violating overtime and record-keeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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A law firm in Detroit was fined $112,000 for failing to pay overtime wages to 36 workers, the U.S. Department of Labor announced April 6.
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The US Labor Department published a two page rule on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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A New York contractor has been issued nine citations and more than $1 million in penalties after an investigation into an employee’s fatal fall.
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News Release: Participant: Pfizer Inc. Andover, Massachusetts. Description: Pfizer employs about 1700 workers at the Andover site, which produces biotherapeutic pharmaceuticals. Employees conduct research and development, and manufacture recombinant DNA-derived protein therapeutics and vaccines. The site uses a...
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News Release: GRAIN VALLEY, MO - Nearly five years after an employee died in a trench collapse, a Missouri contractor exposed two workers to the life-threatening risk of being buried by thousands of pounds of soil as they worked in an unprotected trench weakened by water pooling in an excavation site.
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This bill is sponsored by Rep. Mike Levin.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Small Business Committee Republican Leader Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO), Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA), and Oversight, Investigations, and Regulations Subcommittee Republican Leader Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) issued the following joint statement on the discovery of unions illegally receiving Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds...
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement after being selected as a conferee to produce legislation intended to strengthen America’s deterrence to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) geopolitical threats...
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.