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News Release: US Department of Labor bestows ambassador status on
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News Release: COLUMBUS, OH - A complaint of unsafe work conditions brought federal safety inspectors to a Columbus, Ohio, Dollar Tree store where their findings - employees exposed fire hazards and in danger of unsafely stored and stacked boxes of merchandise falling on them - mirror those violations identified at many other U.S. locations operated by one of the nation's largest discount retailers.
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News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to National Labor Relations Board (the Board) Chairman Lauren McFerran in opposition to the Board’s proposed rule which weakens employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), makes the interests of unions a priority, and strips employees of vital protections.
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News Release: RALEIGH, NC - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $287,923 in back wages and liquidated damages for 152 workers after its investigation found that an Asheville gift and novelty wholesaler ran afoul of federal law by denying some workers the full overtime pay they earned.
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News Release: Yesterday, on National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and a panel of House Republicans to highlight the importance of protecting Title IX against the Left’s attacks on the landmark legislation.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: CENTRAL ISLIP, NY - The operator of two Long Island restaurants may have thought they only had to take orders from customers, but now has learned that ignoring the orders of federal investigators and a federal court will get you arrested.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor is launching an effort to alert families throughout the nation of changes in federal law that now extend the rights to pump breastmilk at work to more women, including those employed as teachers, farmworkers and care workers.
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News Release: LANSDOWNE, PA - Nearly 400 home healthcare workers, employed in an industry rife with overtime violations, will receive the wages they are owed after the U.S. Department of Labor obtained a consent judgment ordering a Philadelphia-area agency and its owners to pay them more than $2.3 million. A federal investigation found the employer willfully shortchanged employees’ hard-earned overtime wages.
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News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FL - Three construction contractors might have prevented the death of a 31-year-old laborer who suffered fatal injuries after falling while installing roof trusses at a Tallahassee work site on Aug. 17, 2022, a federal workplace safety investigation has found.
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News Release: TAMPA, FL - A Florida labor contractor is headed to prison for nearly 10 years after a U.S. Department of Labor and multi-agency investigation into his part in a conspiracy to subject migrant farmworkers to forced labor, obstruct investigators, intimidate witnesses and house workers in unsafe and unhealthy living conditions.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: COLUMBUS, OH - A complaint of unsafe work conditions brought federal safety inspectors to a Columbus, Ohio, Dollar Tree store where their findings - employees exposed fire hazards and in danger of unsafely stored and stacked boxes of merchandise falling on them - mirror those violations identified at many other U.S. locations operated by one of the nation’s largest discount retailers.
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News Release: On Wednesday at 10:15 a.m., the Education and the Workforce Committee will hold its first hearing, titled “American Education in Crisis," which will discuss the state of K-12 and postsecondary education.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $399,851 in overtime back pay and damages for 49 workers at an Aurora family-owned supermarket.
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Steam explosions at two Ohio companies resulted in citations and proposed fines by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration of more than $330,000.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today its Veterans’ Employment and Training Service has signed a memorandum of understanding with seven new partners for the agency’s Employment Navigator and Partnership Pilot. With these additions, a total of 47 partners now support the initiative.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued citations at three more Amazon warehouses - in Aurora, Colorado; Nampa, Idaho; and Castleton, New York - for failing to keep workers safe and delivered hazard alert letters for exposing workers to ergonomic hazards.
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News Release: Today, on National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) celebrated the reintroduction of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. The legislation, authored by Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) and cosponsored by Chairwoman Foxx, allows women...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued citations at three more Amazon warehouses - in Aurora, Colorado; Nampa, Idaho; and Castleton, New York - for failing to keep workers safe and delivered hazard alert letters for exposing workers to ergonomic hazards.