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Environmental Protection
Comer: NARA’s Inconsistent Treatment of Classified Docs Reveals Political Double Standard
Comer: NARA’s Inconsistent Treatment of Classified Docs Reveals Political Double Standard
Environmental Protection
EPA Takes Key Step to Stop Unsafe PFAS from Reentering Commerce
EPA Takes Key Step to Stop Unsafe PFAS from Reentering Commerce
Environmental Protection
EPA and HUD Officials Present Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert with $34.3M to Protect Children from Lead at Homes in City
EPA and HUD Officials Present Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert with $34.3M to Protect Children from Lead at Homes in City
Transportation
USDOT Announces More Than $660 Million Available Through the Port Infrastructure Development Program
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) has announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) making available more than $662 million in Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 funding for MARAD’s Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP).
Transportation
Federal Transit Administration Announces Funding to Explore Transportation Insecurity that Leads to Poverty
One in four Americans is unable to regularly and reliably access transportation they require to meet their daily needs. With that in mind, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced funding to research this challenge, known as transportation insecurity.
Labor
HSI Norfolk investigation leads to Virginia business owner admitting to money laundering, conspiracy involving labor trafficking
A Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Norfolk investigation led to a guilty plea from a Midlothian, Virginia man Jan. 31 for conspiring to defraud and commit offenses against the United States, including human trafficking of individuals from Central America; benefiting from forced labor; money laundering; and harboring undocumented noncitizens.
Labor
US Labor Department recovers $58K in back wages for 13 Tennessee hotel workers after employer failed to pay wages to one, overtime to other workers
Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the employer failed to pay one housekeeper for any hours worked, a minimum wage violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Labor
US Department of Labor resolves wage violations, West Hartford moving, storage company pays $41K to 22 employees
The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered a total of $41,221 for 22 workers employed by a West Hartford moving and storage company and its subsidiary that provided bulk mail delivery service under a contract with the U.S. Postal Service.
Labor
US Labor Department to use billboards to inform workers, employers of wage rights, responsibilities as Hurricane Fiona recovery continues
Campaign includes digital billboards in 7 storm-affected areas of Puerto Rico
Labor
Labor Department recovers more than $144K in back wages for 141 seasonal workers of Florida recreational services company that denied overtime
Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the employer misapplied the seasonal amusement or recreational establishments’ exemption for its workers
Labor
Automaker Stellantis agrees to add lactation rooms, amend its break policy for nursing mothers at Sterling Heights plant, following investigation
After the U.S. Department of Labor found a Stellantis’ auto plant in Sterling Heights violated the rights of nursing mothers employed there, the global manufacturer of Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep vehicles, will create additional lactation rooms and correct its break policy to avoid future violations.
Labor
Federal investigation finds two Tampa smoothie shop franchisees shortchanged 149 workers, employed minors in violation of child labor laws
A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found two operators of Tampa-area Tropical Smoothie Café franchise locations failed to pay workers their full wages, allowed minor-aged employees to work more hours than the law allows when school is in session, and permitted some minors to illegally load a trash compactor.
Labor
Federal investigation finds owner of residential nursing homes owes $69K in overtime, damages to 45 managers at three Detroit area facilities
A federal investigation has found the operator of three Detroit-area residential nursing centers’ pay practices denied 45 managers their full and proper wages by regularly alternating the managers' status from hourly to salary in an attempt to evade overtime obligations.
Labor
US Department of Labor recovers $49K in back wages, damages for Honolulu preschool employees denied full wages
A Honolulu preschool has learned an expensive lesson about willfully failing to pay required overtime wages as the law requires, after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.
Labor
Coastal Maine gourmet market pays $51K to resolve ‘preventable’ wage, child labor violations after Department of Labor investigation
A federal investigation recovered $36,106 in back wages and liquidated damages from a Cape Elizabeth, Maine, café, bakery and market for 86 employees after finding the employer denied some workers their full wages and allowed minor-aged workers to perform hazardous jobs and work more hours than allowed by law.
Labor
Bad Bean Counting: Federal investigators find two more Louisville coffee shops shortchanged workers, allowing managers to dip illegally into tip pools
The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $188,000 for 125 employees at two Louisville coffee shops that illegally allowed managers to keep a portion of the tips earned by workers.
Labor
US Department of Labor highlights federal family, medical leave protections as nation marks 30th anniversary of passage of landmark legislation
Before February 1993, many workers faced with circumstances that demanded time away from work also worried about keeping their jobs and health insurance
Labor
Department of Labor recovers $99K for 58 workers after finding upstate South Carolina restaurant illegally used tips to offset operating costs
U.S. Department of Labor investigators found Nick & Ken & Stelios LLC – operators of The Big Clock of Powdersville restaurant in Greenville – kept a portion of its servers’ tips and used that money to offset wages paid to other restaurant staff, a minimum wage violation and one of several violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Labor
US Department of Labor announces Mercedes-Benz USA, Job Corps partnership to train students for auto technician careers
To help meet the need for auto technicians in the growing electric vehicle industry, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced a national partnership with Mercedes-Benz USA to train Job Corps students initially at centers in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Utah for automotive industry careers.
Labor
US Department of Labor awards $16M to promote equitable access to unemployment benefits in Connecticut, New Jersey, Oklahoma
To help identify and address barriers workers face regarding access to state unemployment insurance benefits, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of nearly $16 million in equity grants to Connecticut, New Jersey and Oklahoma.
Labor
US Department of Labor, Georgia contractors to promote safety, health during Hartsfield-Jackson airport concourse widening project
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic, joint-venture partnership with an East Point, Georgia, construction company to promote worker safety and health during widening construction project of Concourse D at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the nation's busiest.
Labor
US Department of Labor, Missouri Association of Manufacturers renew alliance to target workplace hazards, keep workers safe
In Missouri, OSHA Area Office Directors Karena Lorek in Kansas City and William McDonald in St. Louis signed an alliance renewal on Dec. 29, 2022, with Missouri Association of Manufacturers Executive Director Michael Eaton to improve workplace safety in the industry. Their action renews an alliance first signed in October 2020.
Labor
US Department of Labor cites US Postal Service for failing to provide running water, usable bathroom at Chesapeake facility for more than a month
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened an inspection at the U.S. Postal Service's Chesapeake facility on Aug. 30, 2022, responding to an allegation that the employer did not provide potable water to the facility or an operating bathroom
Labor
As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors
As frigid temperatures and sleet, ice and snow blanket states from the south to the northeast, millions of Americans are facing power outages.
Labor
Bentonia contractor could have prevented deadly Flora explosion, death of 25-year-old welder, US Department of Labor investigation finds
Federal investigators have determined that the employer of a 25-year-old welder – who suffered fatal injuries in an explosion at a Flora work site in July 2022 – could have prevented the tragedy by following federal workplace safety standards.