News from March 2016

By Fed Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: The attached table and charts released on Wednesday summarize the economic projections and the target federal funds rate projections made by Federal Open Market Committee participants for the March 15-16 meeting.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker released the following statement on President Obama’s nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court of the United States.

By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: HILLSBORO, Ohio – For a 26-year-old Ohio construction worker, his new job turned out to be his last. Just a month after starting work for Stauffer Site Services LLC, a nearly 10-foot deep trench collapsed and buried him as he worked installing a sewer line. The man died two days later due to the injuries he suffered.

By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Wis. – Two to three seconds, that is how quickly flowing grain can trap a worker in a grain storage bin. Sixty seconds later, hundreds of pounds of grain can submerge and smother them. When it happens, more than half the time workers die by suffocation.

By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. – Nebraska workers in the meat processing industry are more likely to be injured on the job, than many others employed in the Husker state. The higher-than-average rate has led the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to launch a new Local Emphasis Program ...

By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska workers in the meat processing industry are more likely to be injured on the job, than many others employed in the Husker state. The higher-than-average rate has led the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to launch a new Local Emphasis Program ...

By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. – Walmart continues to endanger the safety and health of its employees despite a 2013 corporate-wide settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to improve safety and health conditions at all of its store locations.

By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. – Walmart continues to endanger the safety and health of its employees despite a 2013 corporate-wide settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to improve safety and health conditions at all of its store locations.

By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced $81 million in available funding through the National Farmworker Jobs Program to provide additional employment, training and housing assistance to migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2016
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2016
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2016
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2016
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2016
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2016
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Fed News Journal | Mar 16, 2016
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 16, 2016
The US Agriculture Department published a four page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 16, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 16, 2016
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 16, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a seven page proposed rule on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.