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News Release: BOSTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Act authorizes the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue subpoenas to request necessary documents as part of an OSHA inspection. If a recipient fails to comply, the department may then move to enforce the subpoena...
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement in response to President Biden’s speech outlining the Administration’s latest efforts to respond to the surging Omicron variant of COVID-19.
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News Release: Many institutions of higher education are not taking the threat of China seriously. A recent report by the Foundation For Defense of Democracies (FDD) makes clear that Confucius Institutes (CIs) are not the only way the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) is trying to gain a foothold in the United States.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Oversight and Reform Committee Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY) sent a follow-up letter to the Secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL) Marty Walsh to reiterate numerous concerns about DOL operations, including how the majority of DOL employees have yet to return to in-person work and that the Secretary himself has spent little time in Washington, D.C.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Dec. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on President Biden’s remarks...
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The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of an $8 million grant to support a global health organization’s efforts to improve workplace safety and health in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
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A federal judge in Cincinnati sentenced Ron Craig Estes to 18 months in prison on Dec. 14 after the Cincinnati businessman pleaded guilty to one count of theft or embezzlement from an employee benefit plan and one count of mail fraud.
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is providing $90 million in YouthBuild program grants focused on occupational skills training, employment services and educational support for youth in poor communities.
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News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO - A Leawood contractor rehabbing the Firestone, Shankman and Michaelson buildings in Kansas City's historic Troost commercial district continues to expose its workers to asbestos and other workplace hazards, a June 29, 2021, federal safety and health investigation has found.
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently launched an initiative to protect professional caregivers from wage violations and reminded employers to abide by workers’ rights laws.
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The Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for private employers took a hit Dec. 8 when the Senate voted it should be overturned.
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U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and Switzerland’s President Guy Parmelin signed a memorandum of understanding to expand apprenticeships among Swiss companies and Swiss-invested companies in the U.S.
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The US Labor Department published a two page proposed rule on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a one page rule on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor has scheduled a meeting of the Maritime Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health Feb. 15, 2022 from 1 to 5 p.m. EST, via teleconference and WebEx.
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Empowering workers is the focal point of the U.S. Department of Labor's fall regulatory agenda, according to a news release.
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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 in response to Senator Joe Manchin’s comments on the Build Back Better legislation.
