News from November 2022
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor is trying to locate home healthcare workers employed from April 2020 through March 2022 by a Pikesville company who may be owed part of nearly $1.13 million in back wages and damages the department’s Wage and Hour Division recovered on their behalf.
By USDA Newswire Report | Nov 18, 2022
A longtime partner of the U.S. Forest Service is getting $40 million to preserve and upgrade streams on the nation's wild lands.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $6,848,992 in grants to state employment insurance systems in Delaware, Montana and Wyoming to enhance awareness and improve delivery of unemployment insurance benefits to people who face obstacles to access.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
Three times in four months, federal safety inspectors observed workers employed by a Calumet City roofing contractor exposed to deadly fall hazards at job sites in Lake Zurich and Wheeling.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an incremental award of $2,677,470 to the Texas Workforce Commission to support continued employment and training services for transitioning military service members and their spouses near and at the U.S. Army’s Fort Hood installation.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $6,848,992 in grants to state employment insurance systems in Delaware, Montana and Wyoming to enhance awareness and improve delivery of unemployment insurance benefits to people who face obstacles to access.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
Three times in four months, federal safety inspectors observed workers employed by a Calumet City roofing contractor exposed to deadly fall hazards at job sites in Lake Zurich and Wheeling.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an incremental award of $2,677,470 to the Texas Workforce Commission to support continued employment and training services for transitioning military service members and their spouses near and at the U.S. Army’s Fort Hood installation.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found the Spring Hill nutritional manufacturer and packing company failed to allow an employee – approved for Family and Medical Leave Act-protected intermittent leave – to return to work. Citing their inability to accommodate the protected leave, the employer informed the employee they could not return to work until their doctor cleared all of their medical restrictions and the leave was no longer needed, a violation of the FMLA. Armada Nutrition LLC’s violation of the employee rights forced them to take more time off than needed as prescribed by their doctor.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
On May 5, 2022, an employee of an Everett demolition contractor lost his legs when a concrete mezzanine platform on the west wall of a building at the former Boston Edison power plant in South Boston collapsed during demolition and asbestos abatement operations.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor today asked a federal court to issue a nationwide temporary restraining order and injunction against Packers Sanitation Services Inc. LTD – one of the nation’s leading providers of food safety sanitation – to stop the company from illegally employing dozens of minor-aged workers while the department continues its investigation of the company’s labor practices.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
On June 2, 2022, a 39-year-old employee of a Mapleton foundry fell and was immediately incinerated in an 11-foot-deep pot of molten iron heated to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor today recognized 835 employers from around the nation for their commitment to hiring and retaining U.S. military veterans during an online event broadcast from the department’s Washington headquarters.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
With injury rates among the more than 90,000 food production workers in Illinois and Ohio significantly higher than other manufacturing workers, the U.S. Department of Labor has stepped up its outreach and enforcement efforts to reduce workplace hazards and better protect workers in these states.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
A Quincy-based roofing contractor exposed workers on the roofs of a garage and house in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood to potentially fatal falls from heights between seven and 21 feet, U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
Following office and administrative support occupations, the second-largest occupational group in the 2021 economy was sales occupations.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
RecycleForce is a U.S. Department of Labor grantee committed to reducing crime through employment and job training, while improving the environment through electronics recycling. Since 2006, RecycleForce safely recycled more than 65 million pounds of electronic waste and provided job training to thousands of citizens returning to their communities from the justice system.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
In October, the U.S. economy added 261,000 jobs, bringing the 3-month average to 289,000 jobs per month.
By Press release submission | Nov 18, 2022
During this 8th Annual National Apprenticeship Week from Nov. 14-20, we celebrate the apprentices, employers, labor, industry, education and equity-focused partners, and the surrounding communities that make Registered Apprenticeships possible.
By USDA Newswire Report | Nov 18, 2022
U.S. Department of Agriculture Chief Scientist Chavonda Jacobs-Young announced an investment of approximately $24 million into 45 organizations and institutions that teach and train beginning farmers and ranchers
