News from February 2022
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
An Indianapolis employer assigned home healthcare workers to shifts at two related companies but failed to combine the hours, denying them earned overtime pay when they worked more than 40 hours per week for the same employer.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
A Winter Park bakery engaged a 13-year-old worker as an unpaid volunteer, and risked the child’s safety by allowing them to operate a power-driven bread slicer, in violation of federal laws governing pay practices and child labor.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 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.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
During the height of the pandemic, records were broken as millions of Americans filed claims for unemployment benefits.
By Press release submission | Feb 10, 2022
Real average hourly earnings for all employees increased 0.1 percent from December to January, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
By Press release submission | Feb 10, 2022
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 14.5 percent of private-sector establishments (1.2 million, with 20.5 percent of all private-sector employment) increased base wages, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Establishments in Accommodation and Food Services, Retail Trade, Health Care and Social Assistance, and Manufacturing increased base wages at a higher rate than average.
By Kaleb Brown | Feb 10, 2022
The United States Department of the Interior recently announced actions to improve the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2022-08. Feb. 10, 2022To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials Between January 6 and Feb. 1, 2022, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) expanded two areas under quarantine in Cameron ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management California Plant Conservation and Restoration Management grant opened on Feb. 10.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Fred Keller (R-Pa.), and Oversight Republicans sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing serious concerns over his plan to export energy to Europe while crippling domestic energy production...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded semiautomatic handgun at a block party on the South Side of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Administrative Funding Adjustment to Previously Funded Award (OJJDP FY 2020 Family Drug Court Program) grant opened on Feb. 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Maine man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Mass., in connection with the Dec. 28, 2020, fire that destroyed a predominately Black church in Springfield.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
Request for Statement of Interest (SOI) for Zimbabwean University Partnership Development Catalyst Projects grant opened on Feb. 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the February 2022 Federal Grand Jury A.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: A federal indictment was unsealed today in the Northern District of Illinois, charging a telecommunications company with conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets. The indictment alleges that a telecommunications company conspired with former employees of Chicago-based Motorola Solutions Inc. to steal digital mobile radio (DMR) technology developed by Motorola.
By Andy Nghiem | Feb 10, 2022
Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, addressed the U.S. Conference of Mayors during the organization's winter meeting last month in Washington, D.C.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power Fiscal Year 2022 Research, Development, and Demonstration Program grant opened on Feb. 10.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Secretary Blinken and Foreign Minister Cavusoglu discussed ways to further coordination and NATO unity regarding the threat of further Russian escalation ...
