News from September 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 21, 2019
News Release: En español | Other translations The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued the following statement on safety and enforcement during Tropical Depression Imelda: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are concerned about the flooding caused by ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 21, 2019
News Release: Thank you, Jim, for that kind introduction. It is my pleasure to be with all of you on such a beautiful morning in downtown Washington after yesterday’s festivities. Welcome Prime Minister Morrison, and your entire staff from Down Under. It is great that you are here in the United States. It is my honor ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2019
News Release: Saguaro National Park News Release 19-27.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2019
News Release: Note to editors: Public domain photos available on Flickr.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2019
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - Want to discover more of southern West Virginia’s hidden and not-so-hidden history, the stories of people and places? Then join in on the 11th Annual Hidden History Weekend, September 27-29, 2019, a celebration of the region’s rich and diverse heritage. These FREE guided walks...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan announced the new DHS Strategic Framework for Combating Terrorism and Targeted Violence at the Brookings Institution, during an event cohosted by the Heritage Foundation.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today, on behalf of the Trump Administration, the Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Kevin K. McAleenan, signed a Protection Cooperative Agreement with Salvadoran Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexandra Hill Tinoco, at DHS U.S. Customs and Border Protection Headquarters in Washington.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement highlighting actions announced by the Department of Labor (DOL) which will modernize the burdensome H2A visa process. First, DOL published a common-sense rule that eliminates the requirement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice has released the agenda and list of participants for its public workshop on the role of antitrust enforcement in labor markets and promoting robust competition for the American worker. The workshop will be the first in a two-part series hosted together with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: A Colombian Cali Cartel cocaine trafficker was sentenced today to 27 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release in the Southern District of Florida for bribing a former special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) to secure the dismissal of a drug trafficking indictment filed against him.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr today announced the appointment of the following nine U.S. Attorneys to serve on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC): David Anderson, Northern District of California; Scott Brady, Western District of Pennsylvania; Maria Chapa Lopez, Middle District of Florida; ...
By Fed Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board has approved an action by the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia decreasing the discount rate (the primary credit rate) at the Bank from 2‑3/4 percent to 2-1/2 percent, effective immediately.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from China, India, and Taiwan, finding that exporters from China, India, and Taiwan have dumped carbon and alloy steel ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: OCHLOCKNEE, GA – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Rite-A-Way Mowers LLC – a Buena Vista, Georgia-based mowing contractor – has paid a civil penalty of $58,383 violating federal child labor laws when it employed a 15-year-old to operate a power-driven weed cutter. The minor drowned while clearing brush along Georgia's Ochlockonee River.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: COLUMBIA, SC – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Grids Security Services LLC – based in Columbia, South Carolina – has paid $40,077 in back wages to nine employees, for violating requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act (CWHSSA) and the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA).
By Labor Gazette | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is conducting a building construction survey of the metropolitan counties in the state of Missouri to collect data to establish prevailing wage rates, as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts. The survey covers active ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: HONOLULU, HI – A Honolulu, Hawaii, maritime repair company will pay $239,380 to 47 employees after a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigation found the employer failed to pay the prevailing wages required for work performed on a government-funded contract at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has awarded approximately $10.5 million in Susan Harwood federal safety and health training grants to 79 nonprofit organizations nationwide. The grants will provide education and training programs to ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: OLMSTED FALLS, OH – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited American Wire and Cable Company – an appliance industry supplier – for more than two dozen serious violations of workplace safety and health standards at the manufacturer's facility in Olmsted Falls, Ohio. The company faces $185,640 in penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: AKRON, OH – An Ohio county court has sentenced Jim Coon – a roofing contractor based in Akron, Ohio – to prison after he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 39-year-old employee who fell from a three-story roof while working without required fall protection in November 2017. ...
