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Chairman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy added 263,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.7 percent.
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The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced an Idaho stone quarry has been ordered to pay almost $1 million in back pay to 60 workers.
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Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational
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News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on the November 2022 Employment Situation Report:
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Yesterday, at a meeting of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Strengthening America's Health Security, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), spoke about her continued efforts to get her PREVENT Pandemics Act, as well as additional COVID and public health funding, into the end-of-the-year funding bill.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Mine Safety and Health Administration has notified the operator of the Morton Salt Inc.’s Weeks Island Mine and Mill in New Iberia, Louisiana, of the existence of a pattern of violations of mandatory health or safety standards under section ...
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News Release: RICHMOND HILL, GA - Once again, federal workplace safety inspectors have found merchandise blocking emergency exits and stacked unsafely, this time at a Family Dollar store in Richmond Hill.
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News Release: RICHMOND HILL, GA - Once again, federal workplace safety inspectors have found merchandise blocking emergency exits and stacked unsafely, this time at a Family Dollar store in Richmond Hill.
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The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Nov. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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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: 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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The US Labor Department published a four page notice on Dec. 1, 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), issued the following statement on the 80-15 vote in the Senate to pass a resolution adopting the tentative agreements reached earlier this year between unions and railroads, and avert a national rail shutdown.
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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.