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US Department of Labor recovers wages for Albuquerque supermarket workers repeatedly denied overtimeFair Labor Standards Act overtime violations found when the employer paid employees a fixed salary for all hours worked instead of time and one-half the hourly employees’ rate of pay.
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The U.S. Department of Labor enforces laws that protect workers’ rights. It also holds unscrupulous employers who shortchange their workers accountable, as it has done on behalf of 118 workers at three Oregon restaurants after an investigation revealed wage theft and other violations.
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News Release: MARTINSBURG, WV - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Continental Brick Co. after an investigation found the employer exposed workers to respirable crystalline silica at the company’s brick manufacturing facility in Martinsburg.
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Release: Employer name: Area Wide Protection Inc., doing business as Roadtek Traffic Solutions LLC 5874 N. Lee Highway, Suite 100 Fairfield, VA 24435
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a federal court in Illinois to hold fiduciaries of the United Employee Benefit Fund, along with its counsel, liable for more than $2.8 million in losses after an investigation found they allowed the misappropriation of the fund’s assets. A Chicago-based multiple employer welfare arrangement, UEBF provides life insurance benefits to about 63 nationwide employer-sponsored benefit plans.
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Continental Brick Company after finding the employer exposed workers to respirable crystalline silica at the company’s brick manufacturing facility in Martinsburg, W.V.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and Ranking Member, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), announced the HELP Committee will hold an executive session on March 15th, to mark up the PREVENT Pandemics Act, legislation aimed at strengthening the nation’s public health and medical preparedness and response systems in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants grant opened on March 2.
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US Department of Labor recovers wages for Albuquerque supermarket workers repeatedly denied overtime
Release: Employer name: Heavenly Victory LLC, doing business as Naranjero Super 1
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News Release: PORTLAND, OR - The U.S. Department of Labor enforces laws that protect workers’ rights. It also holds unscrupulous employers who shortchange their workers accountable, as it has done on behalf of 118 workers at three Oregon restaurants after an investigation revealed wage theft and other violations.
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The US Labor Department published a three page notice on March 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: CHICAGO ‒ Careworkers put in long hours tending to the vital needs of people in their homes and at health care facilities, yet they are among the nation’s lowest paid workers. Their jobs are made even more difficult when employers fail to pay them all their rightfully earned wages.
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Throughout the pandemic, disparities in access to benefits affected women, communities of color and other marginalized workers at a higher rate and often delayed delivery of much needed financial support and services.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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Partners with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration are co-sponsoring the virtual Pacific Coast Safety Fest from March 14-17 to promote best workplace practices to prevent illnesses, injuries and fatalities.
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Federal and state labor inspectors in Mexico will benefit from up to $12 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to help enforce the country’s 2019 labor law reform.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on March 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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There were 16 press releases published by the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in February.