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There were 21 press releases published by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in September 2021.
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News Release: ORLANDO, FL - Employers cannot avoid paying overtime by simply putting employees on a salary, a costly lesson learned by a Florida equipment rental company after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.
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There were 24 press releases published by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in August 2021.
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The U.S. Department of Labor plans to host a summit on March 23 to educate the healthcare industry on wage laws and to ensure that healthcare workers receive proper pay and protections.
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An Indiana employer had to pay more than $154,000 in back wages to workers with disabilities at a Jeffersonville, Ind., non-profit industrial work center.
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News Release: DETROIT - Timothy Schultz, sole owner of a now defunct Detroit-area transport company, will pay $273,819 - representing $252,416 in overtime back wages and $21,403 in interest - to 326 former drivers to resolve a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit prompted by a federal investigation that found Schultz and his company ProCorp LLC, misclassified drivers as independent contractors and failed to pay overtime, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on the February 2022 Employment Situation Report:
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News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO - After long days spent toiling in fields under a hot Missouri sun, immigrant workers returned to what was once a county jail where their employer housed them in unsanitary living conditions and added to their misery by failing to pay them the wages they earned under their contract.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Earlier today, Deputy Secretary of Labor Julie Su hosted an online listening session with members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to discuss strategies for improving trucking job quality, and for retaining and recruiting drivers.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced the availability of $3.2 million in funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 for Susan Harwood Workplace Safety and Health Training on Infectious Diseases, Including COVID-19 grants.
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic partnership with Brasfield & Gorrie Construction to promote worker safety and health during the construction of the University of Alabama’s Medical West project in McCalla.
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Inspections at four Dollar General stores in Alabama and Georgia during the summer of 2021 reportedly found the national retailer’s history of exposing workers to dangerous working conditions continues.
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President Joe Biden told the country during his State of the Union address on Tuesday that he wants to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and extend the child tax credit.
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“INDIANA HUNT-MARTIN POST OFFICE BUILDING“ was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H1169-H1170 on Feb. 28
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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Pathway Home 3 grant opened on March 4.
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There were 51 notices published by the Labor Department in February, according to the Federal Register.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a federal court to hold the fiduciaries of a Chicago welfare fund liable for $2.8 million in losses after the fiduciaries allowed funds to be misappropriated.
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News Release: BATAVIA, OH ‒ An employer installing sanitation sewer pipes in a 15-foot-deep trench in Batavia exposed its employees to the hazard of collapsing walls by not installing trench safety boxes.
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration announced a new campaign to help ensure mine operators provide proper training in a Feb. 28 news release.