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News Release: MATTESON, IL - With holiday shopping nearing its peak, federal workplace safety inspectors have again found Dollar Tree Stores Inc. - one of the nation's largest discount retailers - exposing workers in Matteson to the risks of unsafely stored and stacked boxes of merchandise and blocked electrical panels.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold an online meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health on Jan. 10, 2023, from 2 to 4 p.m. EST.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), joined colleagues, advocates, and pregnant workers in pushing for Senate passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) this Congress to protect pregnant workers and ensure they have the basic workplace accommodations they need to have healthy pregnancies.
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the United States Supreme Court’s announcement that President Biden’s illegal student loan bailout will remain suspended, and that the Court will take up its challenge next year...
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The US Labor Department published a six page rule on Dec. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Deputy Undersecretary of Labor for International Affairs Thea Lee visited Colombia from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1 to promote workers’ rights and protections, and to meet with Colombia’s labor and trade officials in the new Gustavo Petro administration and discuss progress on labor commitments under the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement.
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The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: AVONDALE, PA - A federal court has approved a consent judgment ordering a Southeast Pennsylvania restaurant to pay a total of $193,817 to 68 employees after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the employer denied all of the wages owed them by law.
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News Release: MIDDLEFIELD, OH - Twice in six days in June 2022, federal safety inspectors observed a Middlefield roofing contractor exposing workers to deadly fall hazards at two separate job sites in Tallmadge and Columbia Station, continuing a pattern of disregard for workplace safety dating back to 2019.
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News Release: CHARLESTON, WV - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division today announced an extension of the deadline for submitting prevailing wage survey by West Virginia’s highway construction industry employers to Dec. 18, 2022.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - To help remove academic and training barriers faced by young people, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $90 million funding opportunity in YouthBuild Program grants to support pre-apprenticeships in high-demand industries including construction, healthcare, information technology and hospitality.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is seeking nominations for membership on the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the launch of its second annual Chief Evaluation Office Summer Fellowship, and welcomes applications from emerging researchers to work as fellows in 2023.
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The bill passed 290-137 with broad bipartisan support, and now goes to the Senate, where lawmakers must act quickly to beat the Dec. 9 strike deadline.
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News Release: America’s ongoing worker shortage is forcing employers to reimagine how they identify qualified workers. Fewer employers are requiring a baccalaureate degree because arbitrary degree requirements restrict qualified applicants.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of a $12 million cooperative agreement to the American Center for International Labor Solidarity to strengthen democratic, independent workers’ organizations in Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Nov. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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Deputy Undersecretary of Labor for International Affairs Thea Lee was in Vietnam Nov. 15-17 to continue a conversation on labor issues that had started in 2002.
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U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined a Wisconsin contractor after an inspection found roofing workers were at risk of serious or fatal injuries.
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News Release: POOLER, GA - Following a workplace safety inspection, federal investigators determined a Pooler location of a national discount retailer stacked and stored merchandise unsafely, exposing workers to struck-by hazards from falling boxes and preventing them from exiting the store quickly in an emergency.