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News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration , Illinois On-Site Safety and Health Consultation Program, Lakeside Alliance and key participants will sign a strategic partnership to prevent serious hazards and enhance workplace safety and health practices for workers constructing the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South side.
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News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of an $8.4 million cooperative agreement to the Pan American Development Foundation to empower civil society organizations and workers’ organizations to address child labor, forced labor and other unacceptable working conditions in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The project will promote gender and racial equity and prioritize people of African descent, Garifuna and indigenous communities.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking public comment on its proposal to modify the methodology used to determine the hourly Adverse Effect Wage Rates for the H-2A program. The proposed changes will better enable the department to meet its statutory mandate to ensure the employment of H-2A workers will not adversely affect the wages of workers in the United States similarly employed.
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News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - A New Hampshire residential carpentry contractor misclassified some employees as independent contractors and paid others straight-time wages when they worked over 40 hours in a workweek, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
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News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - The owners of two southern New Hampshire wineries, restaurants, event venues and retail operations in Amherst and Derry violated the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act when they allowed 33 employees younger than 16 years of age to work more hours than allowed under the law.
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News Release: GUYMON, OK - A Guymon processing and packing facility - operated by one of the nation’s largest pork processors - failed to prevent workers from being exposed to repetitive motion injuries and did not record injuries that needed more than basic first-aid.
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News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY - A Louisville pharmacist who fraudulently billed healthcare benefit plans for $188,157 in unfilled prescriptions will serve 9 months in prison and 2 years of supervised release after pleading guilty in federal court.
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News Release: MONTICELLO, AR - A knot saw operator suffered a partial amputation of an index finger in June 2021 when his hand came in contact with a rotating blade that lacked adequate machine guarding. A few weeks earlier, a similar saw at the Maxwell Hardwood Flooring plant in Monticello lacerated a co-worker’s palm severely, leaving them with nerve damage.
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News Release: LODI, NJ - A U.S. Department of Labor administrative law judge ordered a northern New Jersey trucking company contracted by the U.S. Postal Service to haul mail in the New York City metro-area to pay $549,209 in back wages to 46 drivers after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found wage, benefits ...
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News Release: WASHINGTON -The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a final rule that implements Executive Order 14026 to increase the hourly minimum wage for employees on federal contracts beginning Jan. 30, 2022. President Biden signed the order on April 27, 2021.
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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 hearing on the federal response to the continuing surge of the COVID-19 Omicron variant across the country, with members of the Biden Administration COVID response...
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A Louisville, Kentucky country club operator has recently been ordered to pay nearly $28,000 in back pay and fines by the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) for violations including paying some employees below minimum wage and failing to uphold child labor requirements.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after new documents surface d regarding the National School Boards Association’s previously rescinded letter labeling parents as domestic terrorists...
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued a temporary enforcement policy for brokers and consultants of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health plans, requiring them disclose their compensation to clients.
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic partnership with Choate Construction to promote worker safety and health during the construction of a mixed-use development in the historic district of Savannah.
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A federal workplace safety investigation in July 2021 found a utility contractor in Montana exposed employees working in and around trenches to potentially deadly hazards.The U.S.
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A federal court has ordered a prominent Long Island thoroughbred horseracing stable and its owner to pay a total of $132,631 in back wages and liquidated damages to 52 grooms and hot walkers at several locations, including Belmont and Aqueduct racetracks.
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While the cotton gin has greatly increased the speed of crop production since its invention more than three centuries ago, the U.S. Department of Labor has found 8 out of 10 cotton gin employers it investigated in the Southeast region violated the Fair Labor Standards Act, Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, or provisions of the H-2A visa program.
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A North Carolina plumbing company was found by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) to have violated the Davis-Bacon Act by paying five employees under the prevailing wage, resulting in over $33,000 of back wages recovered.
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently rescinded the requirement for labor unions valued at $250,000 or greater to submit a Form T-1 due to the information already being readily available elsewhere.