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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced today that it has approved the supplemented application submitted to the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program by the Retirement Benefit Plan of GCIU Detroit Newspaper Union 13N with Detroit Area Newspaper Publishers (Detroit Newspaper Union Plan). The plan, based in Warren, Michigan, covers 563 participants in the printing industry.
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Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced the appointment of John Hanley as Chief of Negotiations and Restructuring.
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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced today that it has approved the application submitted to the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program by the Plasterers Local 82 Pension Fund (Plasterers Local 82 Fund)
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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced today that it has approved the application submitted to the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program by the Alaska Ironworkers Pension Plan (Alaska Ironworkers Plan). The plan, based in Anchorage, Alaska, covers 744 participants in the construction industry.
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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) today announced a final rule amending the special financial assistance (SFA) regulation to add an exception process for certain withdrawal liability conditions that apply to a plan that receives SFA
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The U.S. Department of Labor today announced its selection of 10 states and the District of Columbia to participate as “core states” in its National Expansion of Employment Opportunities Network initiative.
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The U.S. Department of Labor announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued new enforcement guidance to make its penalties more effective in stopping employers from repeatedly exposing workers to life-threatening hazards or failing to comply with certain workplace safety and health requirements.
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The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a revised Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program.
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The owner of a Vail construction company facing felony manslaughter charges has surrendered to local law enforcement after the Summit County Sheriff's Office in Breckenridge, Colorado, issued an arrest warrant on Jan. 24, 2023, related to the findings of a federal safety investigation into a deadly trench collapse in November 2021.
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Just weeks after being cited with federal safety violations, Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC have once again exposed workers to unsafe conditions, this time at two store locations in Florida and another in Alabama.
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A Gainesville psychiatric and substance abuse hospital has implemented a series of changes to their safety protocols after the U.S. Department of Labor cited the facility for failing to protect employees from workplace violence after a series of incidents left employees with serious injuries.
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A Kingman plastics manufacturer's failure to make sure required safety procedures were followed contributed to the death of a worker who suffered fatal injuries when he became entangled in a rotating part inside a bagging machine while trying to clear a jam, a federal workplace safety investigation found.
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OSHA's Dallas and Fort Worth Area offices and the Drywall and Acoustical Tile Contractors Association have renewed a 2-year alliance to educate employers and employees on construction hazards
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The U.S. Department of Labor has found the U.S. Postal Service exposed workers to struck-by, electrical, crushing, fire and other health hazards at facilities in Columbia, Knoxville and Nashville.
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With proper training, people working in metal casting facilities know that mixing water and molten material can be a serious, if not deadly mistake, as tragic incidents at two Ohio companies in 2022 showed.
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During the enforcement pause, OSHA offered technical assistance to protect the safety and health of thousands of crews and individual workers.
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An Alabama plastics manufacturing company has pleaded guilty to a willful violation of workplace safety requirements as part of an agreement filed in federal court spurred initially by a U.S. Department of Labor investigation into a 45-year-old worker's death in Helena in August 2017.
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In the summer of 2022, onlookers noticed a delivery truck stopped at about 8:15 a.m. one Wednesday morning on the University of Birmingham campus near what would have been the driver's first drop-off.
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Following yet another inspection – this time at a West Lafayette, Ohio, Dollar General location – federal investigators found one of the nation's largest discount retailers continues to shelve serious safety concerns that expose workers and others to the dangers of blocked emergency exits and electrical panels, and boxes of merchandise stacked at unsafe heights.
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The Extensions of Remarks section of the Congressional Record published “CELEBRATING THE RETIREMENT OF MARZETTE ``MARZY'' BEDFORD-BILLINGHURST, LONGTIME FEDERAL EMPLOYEE AND CIVIL SERVANT” on Jan. 24.