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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: HARTFORD, CT - An employee of a Watertown metal fabrication company was electrocuted on July 14, 2021, while repairing a portable water heater. An inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that his employer, PM Engineered Solutions Inc., lacked safeguards to protect employees against electrocution, as well as mechanical, chemical, fall and other electrical hazards.
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The US Labor Department published a three page notice on Jan. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Supreme Court reinstated the stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccination-and-testing mandate...
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced that it is currently conducting outreach and enforcement operations in Arkansas following cleanup operations that were launched in response to tornados that tore through the state on Dec. 10, 2021.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced adjustments to Occupational Safety and Health Administration civil penalty amounts based on cost-of-living adjustments for 2022.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and a group of elevator industry stakeholders known as the “Elevator Industry Safety Partners" collectively have signed a five-year alliance agreement to renew their commitment to protect nearly 75,000 workers who construct, install, repair and maintain elevator industry conveyances. OSHA’s 10 regions nationwide will participate in the alliance.
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a mark-up to consider qualified, experienced nominees for our health, education and labor agencies.
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The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division agency has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which will serve to further cement their relationship.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on the Supreme Court ruling on the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s emergency temporary standard on vaccination and testing...
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) led a letter signed by every Republican Committee Member demanding a hearing with U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to answer for his role in supporting and encouraging efforts to label concerned parents as domestic terrorists.
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the Supreme Court decision blocking enforcement of the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine or testing OSHA safety standard and upholding the CMS vaccine requirements for health care workers.
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News Release: AMARILLO, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found that the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management violated procedures for safe handling of chemical materials at its Cliffside Helium Enrichment Unit in Amarillo, a federal chemical producing plant that refines and sells helium products to private entities.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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Over $9.3 million of a Minneapolis manufacturing company’s employee stock ownership plan after the fund overpaid for company stock in 2011 was reclaimed by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recently renewed its alliance with the Consulate General of Mexico in Kansas City, continuing its shared effort to promote health and workplace safety for Mexican nationals working in Kansas and Missouri.
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Homeless Veterans' Reintegration Program (HVRP), Incarcerated Veterans' Transition Program (IVTP), and the Homeless Female Veterans' and Veterans' with Children Program (HFVVWC) (referred to collectively as HVRP) grant opened on Jan. 12.
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More than $9.3 million dollars has been recently recovered by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for employees participating in a Minneapolis manufacturing company’s employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) after the trustee was found to have overpaid for stock in 2011.