News from February 2022
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a committee hearing to examine the American Nuclear Infrastructure Act of 2021—legislation Ranking Member Capito reintroduced in July 2021—and the STRANDED Act of 2021.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing to examine the American Nuclear Infrastructure Act of 2021—which Ranking Member Capito reintroduced in July 2021—and the STRANDED Act of 2021.Last week, Ranking Member Capito joined Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.)
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), today sent a letter to governors across the country reaffirming their commitment to ensuring the proper implementation of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
In 2021, the pandemic forced 17 employers in Maine’s coastal region, including Abbott Labs, B&M Baked Beans and Country Manor Nursing Home, to lay off more than 500 workers, which has prompted the U.S. Department of Labor to award a grant to help prepare these workers for new employment opportunities.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Those questioning the need for equity among Black women in the workforce should look no further than a 2020 Bureau of Labor Statistics’ survey that found they earn just 63 cents for every dollar white men earn, and that they experienced a nearly 5 percent rate of job loss during the pandemic.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
About one-third of adults with moderate disabilities participate in the workforce.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
By misclassifying 60 employees as independent contractors, a Detroit-area employer denied them their full wages and benefits and important protections under federal law – a situation now remedied by a U.S.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking 287 former or current officers of the Puerto Rico Police Department, who worked for the department between June 13, 2010, and Aug. 31, 2014, and are owed back wages as part of a 2016 federal court order.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the launch of its second annual Summer Data Challenge competition for emerging and established scholars to analyze how federal labor policies, protections and programs reach traditionally underserved communities.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
A Flagler Beach bar and grill’s decision to keep portions of employees’ credit card tips to cover cash drawer shortages and customer walkouts voided their ability to receive a tip credit and pay each affected worker less than the full federal minimum wage.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Today, the House Committee on Education and Labor released a new video detailing how the American Rescue Plan Act created a Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program to avert the immediate crisis threatening the retirement security of America’s workers, retirees, and their families.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Federal investigators found that the owners of three northern California restaurants willfully denied a cook and five other workers overtime wages for hours over 40 in a workweek.The U.S.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-NC), RSC Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN), and Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) led a group of House Republicans in filing an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in The Atlanta Opera, Inc. 371 NLRB No. 45 (2021).
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in support of George Washington University's decision to reverse its censorship of political posters criticizing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), created by a Chinese dissident known as Badiucao.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Republican Leader Richard Burr (R-NC) sent a letter requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) review the National Labor Review Board’s (NLRB or Board) improper seating of David Prouty.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
President Biden’s extension of the student loan repayment pause is a cowardly act of political appeasement that is exacerbating our country’s debt crisis. It is time for President Biden to put the good of the country before special interests and resume student loan repayments.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Even after putting children through three school years of inconsistent schooling due to Covid, Democrats are still opposing expanded flexibility and choice in K-12 education.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after the White House released its plan, via the task force on union organizing, to increase union bosses’ stranglehold over American workers
