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News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - A Manchester chimney services contractor has paid a total of $26,163 to three workers to resolve allegations that the employer violated the Fair Labor Standards Act’s anti-retaliation provisions enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.
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News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - 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. About two hours later, a passerby saw the driver slumped over and unresponsive.
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News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - 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. About two hours later, a passerby saw the driver slumped over and unresponsive.
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Supplemental Budget Request (SBR) Opportunity for Additional Administrative Costs under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Program grant opened on Jan. 25.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The newly launched National Database of Childcare Prices, which provides childcare prices in 2,360 U.S. counties, shows that childcare expenses are untenable for families throughout the country and highlights the urgent need for greater federal investments, the U.S. Department of Labor announced today.
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News Release: US Department of Labor resumes regular enforcement activities
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News Release: WEST LAFAYETTE, OH - 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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News Release: LITTLE ROCK, AR - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has determined a Carrollton, Texas, lumber supplier and retailer could have prevented the death of an 18-year-old worker who was struck by a forklift at a Rison, Arkansas, worksite in July 2022 by following federal safety requirements.
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Release: Who: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - 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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News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - 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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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of a $10 million cooperative agreement to The Ergo Group to provide assistance to state labor courts in Mexico in protecting worker rights as part of the country’s 2019 labor law reform.
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News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) praised the ‘‘National School Choice Week’’ resolution, introduced by Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI), for which she is an original cosponsor...
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The US Labor Department published a six page notice on Jan. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: LITTLE ROCK, AR - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has determined a Carrollton, Texas, lumber supplier and retailer could have prevented the death of an 18-year-old worker who was struck by a forklift at a Rison, Arkansas, worksite in July 2022 by following federal safety requirements.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: Allegations: The department alleges that Pigeon Forge Hospitality LLC and Nimesh Patel - operator of a Comfort Inn & Suites hotel in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee - willfully and repeatedly failed to pay employees at least the federal minimum wage rate and did not pay them at least one-and-on-half times their ...
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: PHOENIX - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $724,082 in back wages and damages for 255 employees of an electrical contractor in Phoenix who denied them overtime wages and falsified records.
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News Release: WEST LAFAYETTE, OH - 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.