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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, took to the Senate floor to slam Republicans’ dangerous political ploy to overturn the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)-a key tool to protect workers, get more people vaccinated, help end the pandemic, and keep our economic recovery on track.
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Boone Logistics Services LLC, a Florida-based logistics solutions provider, reportedly shortchanged the wages of 31 yard hostlers at its Texas distribution center, claiming they had not been entitled to overtime pay for their work.
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health Committee, and Kevin Wren, a type 1 diabetic and health care advocate from Seattle, joined Protect Our Care to discuss the Build Back Better Act’s critical provisions to make insulin more affordable. A Washington...
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News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee Republican Leader Russ Fulcher (R-ID) sent a letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Marty Walsh expressing opposition to the DOL’s proposed rescission of religious liberty protections for federal contractors.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement in response to the Senate passing the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to nullify President Biden’s vaccine mandate for private employers and workers.
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The US Labor Department published a one page rule on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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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. The U.S.
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) requesting public input on its proposal to revise the process used to calculate hourly Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWR) for the H-2A program.
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News Release: In last week’s Full Committee hearing, AmeriCorps’ Inspector General, Deborah J. Jeffrey, confirmed what we already knew - AmeriCorps is a failed experiment.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently advanced the deadline for public input on the COVID-19 vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard (ETS) to Jan. 19, 2022
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The deadline for financial institutions to roll out a class exemption intended to help investors and advisers was recently extended for those “working diligently, and in good faith, to comply,” according to a U.S. Department of Labor press release.
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U. S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh recently paid a visit to the Port of Los Angeles to highlight the Biden administration's measures to reduce supply chain disruptions.
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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, joined Vice President Harris and the White House during their Maternal Health Day of Action Summit. Senator Murray participated in a panel moderated by Centers for...
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in support of First Amendment rights on college campuses.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senate HELP Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) spoke on the Senate floor on the ways the Build Back Better child care and universal pre-K policies would help working parents by dramatically lowering their costs and giving parents more high-quality options for child care and pre-K.
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U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on the November 2021 Employment Situation Report
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Roshan Operations LLC has agreed to pay a $101,027 penalty after authorities discovered the employer jeopardized minors' safety by allowing them to engage in unlawful or hazardous activities.
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The US Labor Department published a three page notice on Dec. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Dec. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor has extended the deadline for submitting nominations to serve on the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health. Nominations must now be submitted by Jan. 31, 2022.