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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee advanced the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) Reauthorization of 2021-introduced by HELP Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-NC)-by voice vote. At the committee mark-up, ...
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News Release: Today, Representative Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services hearing on ending child hunger...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) criticized the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for burdening health care facilities with a permanent pandemic regulation...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has announced it will issue an emergency temporary standard to protect healthcare workers from contracting coronavirus. The standard focuses on healthcare workers most likely to have contact with someone infected with the virus. OSHA announced the new standard alongside new general industry guidance, both of which are aligned with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance
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Senator Murray Statement on DOL Announcing an OSHA Workplace Safety Standard for Health Care WorkersNews Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement in response to the Department of Labor (DOL) announcing that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will issue a COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for health care workers and revised guidance for all workers at risk from COVID-19.
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News Release: EATONTOWN, NJ - An Eatontown manufacturer failed to protect employees adequately from workplace exposure to coronavirus, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration determined, after an investigation into the deaths of two workers and the hospitalization of two others who contracted the coronavirus in the fall of 2020.
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.)-Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, objected to Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) attempt to pass the misleadingly named Working Families Flexibility Act, which would fail to provide workers with comprehensive paid...
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News Release: Today, House Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Committee on Ways and Means Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-Texas), and House Committee on the Budget Ranking Member Jason Smith (R-Mo.) ...
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News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a Committee hearing examining the policies and priorities of the Department of Labor...
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News Release: LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas hospital that required workers to complete necessary paperwork without pay after their daily shifts ended also manipulated employee time cards to avoid paying overtime, a federal investigation has found.
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News Release: LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas hospital that required workers to complete necessary paperwork without pay after their daily shifts ended also manipulated employee time cards to avoid paying overtime, a federal investigation has found.
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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, urged her colleagues to support the nominations of Dawn O’Connell to serve as Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human...
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senator Richard Burr, Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) Reauthorization of 2021, a bipartisan bill to keep children across...
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on Senate Republicans voting to block consideration of the Paycheck Fairness Act, common-sense legislation to help end to the wage gap, and ensure women are paid fairly for their work.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: CAMBRIA, WI – After a worker who was clearing corn debris from an unsafe silo failed to arrive for a regularly scheduled meeting, employees called 911 when they could not find him at the silo, nor reach him by phone. It took emergency services nine hours to recover the body of the 52-year-old manager, found engulfed in the silo operated by Didion Milling Inc. in Cambria.