News from January 2019
By Labor Gazette | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: SEATTLE, WA – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Oralia Magallanes and Juan Calderon – operators of three Mexican restaurants in North Central Washington – will pay $96,995 to 32 employees for overtime violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH – A Manchester, New Hampshire, enterprise involving a catering business and several cafes – all owned and operated by Keri Laman and Tidewater Hospitality Resources LLC – has paid $86,959 in back wages and liquidated damages for 70 employees after a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour ...
By Labor Gazette | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: DENVER, CO – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited ContractOne Inc. – based in Avon, Colorado – for safety violations following a fatal trench cave-in.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS, MT – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Montana Contractors Association (MCA) have signed an alliance to foster safer workplaces. The two-year alliance will focus on effective training and education programs to recognize and prevent workplace ...
By Labor Gazette | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: SHARONVILLE, OH - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited United Parcel Service (UPS) for repeatedly putting workers at risk by obstructing exit routes at its Sharonville, Ohio, distribution center. The company faces $208,603 in proposed penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the resignation of Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS) Matthew Miller, effective Jan. 3, 2019.
By State News Post | Jan 3, 2019
The US State Department published a one page notice on Jan. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: The Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems (CEDS) program funds a diverse portfolio of competitively awarded R&D projects that aim to adapt energy delivery systems to survive modern cyberattacks. The 2018 CEDS Peer Review, held November 6-8 in Arlington, Virginia, evaluated these ongoing, next-generation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - Aformer United States Postal Service employee pleaded guilty in federal court today to a charge of misappropriation of postal funds, and immediately following, was sentenced to two years’ probation, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: A Toledo couple was indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to use explosives and firearms to kill and injure others.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: Marlon P. Bush, age 47, of East St. Louis, Illinois, pleaded guilty today to federal charges of wire fraud and embezzlement from the City of East St. Louis Public Library, a unit of city government that received federal funds. Bush formerly served as the Library’s director, and from 2014 through 2016 took excess salary and charged personal purchases to the Library’s credit card.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Christopher Younger, 37, of Jackson, entered a guilty plea today before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana K. Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY-17) released the following statement after the House passed, on two bipartisan votes, bills that fully fund most federal agencies through September 30 and continue funding at current levels for Homeland Security through February 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Cherry Tree, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months in prison and five years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - As 2018 has drawn to a close, Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, reviews the district’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) cases.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the closing of the 115th Congress without Senate Republican leadership confirming Chai Feldblum to the Equal Employment Opportunity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: Forfeited Items Include 46 Firearms, Sawed-Off Shotguns, Unregistered Silencers, and KKK Materials.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Cherry Tree, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months in prison and five years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - As 2018 has drawn to a close, Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, reviews the district’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2019
News Release: A Toledo couple was indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to use explosives and firearms to kill and injure others.
