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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an award of $2.5 million to support an initiative to assess and expand the successful Fair Food Program model with a pilot project to promote human and labor rights focused on cut flower farms in Chile, Mexico and South Africa.
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The US Labor Department published a two page proposed rule on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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A U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation determined the death of a 17-year-old Pennsylvania worker, who was partially pulled into a woodchipper, could have been prevented if the company followed federal safety standards.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration will withdraw its proposal to reconsider and revoke final approval of Arizona's State Plan for occupational safety and health, and by doing so, will leave the state's plan in place.
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Release: Employer: Marble Slab Creamery of Pier Park Inc., operating as Marble Slab Creamery
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News Release: WAUSEON, OH - The operator of Wauseon restaurant forced servers - who worked an average of 60 hours a week - to cash paychecks and then pay their wages back to him in cash, allowing the workers to keep just the tips they earned plus $20 in each two-week pay period, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
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There were 70 press releases published by the U.S. Department of Labor in January.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that its Employee Benefits Security Administration will reopen the public comment period on amendments to its Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program and the proposed amendment to the associated class Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2002-51.
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News Release: SCHNECKSVILLE, PA - On a Tuesday afternoon in the summer of August 2022, federal workplace safety inspectors responded to a police report that a 17-year-old worker had suffered fatal injuries after being pulled into a woodchipper at a work site near Allentown.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the new chairman of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Wednesday during remarks to Advocates for Community Health proposed a historic expansion of community health centers.
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News Release: ATLANTA, IL ‒ An Illinois grain cooperatives’ failure to make sure they followed required safety procedures contributed to how a 27-year-old worker suffered a partial amputation of his right leg when a paddle conveyor was left running when he and two other employees entered a soybean bin for cleaning.
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News Release: Rebecca Pringle, the President of NEA, and Randi Weingarten, the President of AFT, will Join Sen. Sanders on Stage
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News Release: Following the deal reached this week with CSX, Sanders calls on remaining rail companies to take urgent action in new letter
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News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh joined Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health Doug Parker today to sign a memorandum that gives the Occupational Safety and Health Administration the authority to issue certifications in support of applications for U Nonimmigrant Status and T Nonimmigrant Status visas.
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News Release: AUSTIN, TX - Una investigación federal descubrió que una compañía de suministros de jardinería de Austin, donde un empleado de 17 años sufrió lesiones graves en un incidente de montacargas en junio de 2021, le permitió trabajar en ocupaciones peligrosas y prohibidas en violación de la ley federal de trabajo de menores de edad.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) at 1:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, Feb. 9th will hold a press conference with rail workers to demand companies provide them with at least seven paid sick...
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Release: Employer: Southern Visions LLP, operating as Sweet Brew Tea
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News Release: AUSTIN, TX - A federal investigation has found an Austin landscape supply company, where a 17-year-old employee suffered serious injuries in a forklift incident in June 2021, allowed them to work in hazardous and prohibited occupations in violation of federal child labor law.
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News Release: SCHNECKSVILLE, PA - On a Tuesday afternoon in the summer of August 2022, federal workplace safety inspectors responded to a police report that a 17-year-old worker had suffered fatal injuries after being pulled into a woodchipper at a work site near Allentown.
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News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Republican Leader Bill Cassidy, M.D., (R-LA) led 32 House Republicans and 35 Republican Senators in calling on U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to rescind the Biden administration’s radical income-driven repayment proposal, which will severely exacerbate rising college costs and excessive borrowing.