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News Release: On Feb. 14, the federal government announced that it was again extending the deadline for employers to file objections to the disclosure of their EEO-1 data in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Center for Investigative Reporting. The deadline for submitting objections is now March 3.
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“The Environment (Executive Session)“ was published in the Senate section on pages S434-S435 on Feb. 16
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“THE ENVIRONMENT“ was published in the Senate section on pages S406-S407 on Feb. 15
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There were 13 notices published by the Labor Department in week ending Feb. 11, according to the Federal Register.
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Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh visited Tulsa, Okla., to highlight the need for economic justice for underserved communities, particularly Black communities.
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Release: Employer: BAE Systems Inc., operating as Ordnance Systems Inc.
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News Release: KIELER, WI - One of the nation’s largest food safety sanitation services providers has paid $1.5 million in civil money penalties after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the company employed at least 102 children - from 13 to 17 years of age - in hazardous occupations and had them working overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states.
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News Release: ALIQUIPPA, PA - As the nation today recognizes the selfless and dedicated work of professional caregivers on National Caregivers Day, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that a federal court has entered a default judgment against an Aliquippa home health provider and its owner, after an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the employer denied 23 home health aides overtime wages.
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News Release: ANCHORAGE, AK - Working in the Alaskan fishing industry - an occupation already regarded as one of the nation's most dangerous - employees aboard the F/V Pacific Producer faced dangers purely of their employer's making, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Coast Guard has found.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $50 million in grants to help 15 community colleges in 14 states expand access to education and training for good-paying jobs and equitably meet employers’ and workers’ skill development needs.
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Release: Employer: Urban Air Jacksonville LLC, operating as Urban Air Trampoline Park at Southside
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News Release: WASHINGTON - When MasterBrand Cabinets announced plans in December 2022 to close its Newton, Kansas location, the area lost one of its largest employers, displacing more than 400 workers.
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U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh said the U.S. is "deeply concerned" by the December 2022 and January 2023 sentencings of six trade union leaders in Belarus.
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U.S. Department of Labor investigators found the Jacksonville indoor adventure park allowed 55 minor-aged employees, 14 and 15 years old, to work after 7 p.m. on a school night, a violation of the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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One of the nation’s largest food safety sanitation services providers has paid $1.5 million in civil money penalties after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the company employed at least 102 children – from 13 to 17 years of age – in hazardous occupations and had them working overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states.
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The department’s Wage and Hour Division found the employer failed to pay the proper half-time rates to non-exempt employees who worked more than 40 hours in a workweek
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As the nation today recognizes the selfless and dedicated work of professional caregivers on National Caregivers Day, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that a federal court has entered a default judgment against an Aliquippa home health provider and its owner, after an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the employer denied 23 home health aides overtime wages.
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Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found that the employer – which provides clean-up or dirt delivery to residential or construction sites in Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties – failed to pay the correct overtime to employees after misapplying a motor carrier exemption.
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An administrative law judge has entered a consent order following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that determined a wholesale plant nursery in Miami gave foreign visa workers preferential treatment over U.S. workers, and housed workers in unsafe and unhealthy conditions in Greensboro, Georgi
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Despite being warned in September 2021 that the hours worked by 14- and 15-year-old employees at its Slim Chickens’ franchise in Streetsboro violated federal law, the owner continued the illegal practices for several months at a second location in Avon, the U.S. Department of Labor has found.