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News Release: DENVER - A federal whistleblower investigation has found a Denver-based information technology services provider retaliated against an employee who raised concerns about the company's failure to pay trust fund taxes to the IRS.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of a $5 million cooperative agreement to the Solidarity Center to elevate women’s participation in the workplace, particularly those among underserved groups or populations in the West African nations of Liberia and Nigeria.
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The US Labor Department published a five page notice on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement in response to news the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) approved relief to the Central States Pension Fund through the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) program, which Senator Murray fought to establish in the American Rescue Plan.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced its Veterans’ Employment and Training Service has signed a memorandum of understanding with five new partners that have agreed to support VETS’ Employment Navigator and Partnership Pilot. With the additions, there are now 38 ENPP partners.
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News Release: RICHLAND, WA - The U.S. Department of Labor has reached an early resolution conciliation agreement with an environmental cleanup provider alleged to have discriminated against 151 Hispanic applicants for contract employment at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site near Richland.
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation to clarify that victims of discrimination can seek damages for emotional harm under federal law after the Supreme Court curtailed their ability to do so in its April ruling in Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller.
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News Release: US Department of Labor, El Paso Consulate General of Mexico renew 2-year
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Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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A Louisiana salt mine operated by Morton Salt Inc. has been issued a U.S. Department of Labor pattern of violations notice for allegedly failing to comply with mandatory federal health and safety standards.
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News Release: DENVER - A federal whistleblower investigation has found a Denver-based information technology services provider retaliated against an employee who raised concerns about the company’s failure to pay trust fund taxes to the IRS.
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News Release: Employer: Justar Fashion Inc. Investigation sites: 2660 Chico Ave. South El Monte, CA 91733 Investigation findings: U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found Justar Fashion - a garment contractor that produces apparel for retailers such as Stitch Fix, Indigo and Evereve - ...
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News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Federal workplace safety investigators have determined that an Arkansas construction contractor failed to test oxygen levels in the confined space before two workers entered a sewer 20 feet below ground at an Edmond work site and died because of a lack of oxygen.
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Release: Employer: CHU Contracting Inc. 14020 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 Chantilly, Virginia 20151
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Release: Employer name: Oak Texas Bar & Grill LLC
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health Christopher J. Williamson issued the following statement in recognition of Dec. 6, 2022, as National Miners Day:
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News Release: LINCOLN, NE - A federal court in Nebraska today entered a consent order and judgment in which Packers Sanitation Services Inc. LTD - one of the nation’s largest providers of food safety sanitation services - agreed to immediately comply with child labor laws at all facilities nationwide and to take significant steps to ensure future compliance, including employing an outside compliance specialist.
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News Release: LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $370,194 in back wages and liquidated damages from the owners of two restaurants in Los Angeles and Pasadena who illegally denied overtime wages to 54 workers, and attempted to hide their misdeeds.
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News Release: ST. PETERSBURG, FL - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found a St. Petersburg restaurant ran afoul of federal law, leading to the recovery of $28,162 in back wages for 36 employees, and changes to the employers’ pay practices. The employer illegally paid kitchen staff, dishwashers, and servers as independent contractors.
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News Release: SEATTLE - While 77 care workers employed by Seattle-area adult family home providers worked long hours to ensure the well-being and daily needs of older adults and people with disabilities, a federal investigation has found their employers were shortchanging them $530,418 in wages.