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News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Labor, Department of Education, Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration today announced the members of a cross-agency working group that will collaborate to identify the current and future needs of the telecommunications industry workforce, including the safety of that workforce.
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News Release: PRINCETON, WV - A federal investigation recovered $270,984 in back wages and liquidated damages for 166 workers of a Princeton skilled nursing care facility. The employer failed to pay proper overtime as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a three page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page rule on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: MOUNT VERNON, OH - Responding to a complaint that a Mount Vernon auto-parts supplier was ignoring guidelines to limit employee exposure to the coronavirus and that several employees were sick, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found the company did not enforce its own policy or federal guidelines on social distancing and mask wearing.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), responded to news that over 14.5 million people across the country got quality, affordable health coverage during the recent open enrollment period. The record-setting open enrollment...
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News Release: Dear Mr. Zuckerberg: Over the past several years, a series of reports have described a pattern of Facebook and Instagram restricting access to women’s health information. A new report has now found that Facebook and Instagram block advertisements providing information on women’s health and sexual health, ...
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland has seized “USdolbids.com” which purported to be the official website for the United States Department of Labor.
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A New York Man was arrested today on charges arising from a scheme to fraudulently obtain business loans and unemployment pandemic relief funds made available under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.Ronald Buie, 35, was charged with one count of wire fraud.
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Twenty alleged drug dealers and their associates have been arrested and charged in “Operation Shut Down Corner,” announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has entered a consent judgment ordering a Brooklyn bus and shuttle service to pay $742,500 in back wages and liquidated damages for overtime wages denied to 368 shuttle drivers, following an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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A Fort Myers heating, ventilating and air conditioning company paid commissions and stipends to a rotation of on-call dispatchers but failed to include those payments in the workers’ rate of pay when calculating overtime in violation of federal law, the U.S. Department of Labor has determined.
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Employers must accurately count all the hours employees work and include certain commissions earned when calculating overtime pay due. Failing to do so can lead to violations and result in unexpected costs in the form of back wages and, in some cases, penalties.
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As National Human Trafficking Prevention Month concludes, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division continues to support the updated U.S. National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking by committing resources, collaborating with criminal enforcement agencies and providing outreach to combat labor trafficking.
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Millions of minors under the age of 18 join the U.S. workforce each year – many in the food industry – and the U.S. Department of Labor is working hard to ensure restaurant employers in the Southeast know their legal obligations regarding the employment of minors and to curb a recent increase in noncompliance.
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The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury today issued their 2022 Report to Congress on the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.
