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US Department of Labor finds fire, electrical, other hazards in inspections at two southeast Oklahoma Dollar General stores putting workers at risk
News Release: HARTSHORNE, OK - When federal workplace safety investigators opened inspections in December 2022 at two Dollar General stores in southeast Oklahoma, they found blocked exit routes and walkways exposing employees to fire hazards, the same types of violations investigators discovered in stores across the nation operated by the national discount retailer.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: HELP Committee to Hold Hearing on Worsening Child Care Crisis
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 30 - The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), will hold a hearing Wednesday, May 31 at 10:00 a.m. ET titled, “Solving the Child Care Crisis: Meeting the Needs of Working Families and Child Care Workers."
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Foxx, Walberg, Chavez-DeRemer Demand Answers from Su on Trafficking of Migrant Children
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), and Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su demanding information about recent reports that migrant children - many of whom were under the care of the Department of Health and Human Services - are being trafficked and working illegally in the United States.
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Foxx, Kiley to Su: Don't Shame America's Farmers
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Kiley (R-CA) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su regarding serious delays in the processing of H-2A applications. The letter comes following disturbing quotes from DOL officials likening America’s agriculture employers to slave laborers.
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US Department of Labor investigation finds Columbus children's hospital exposed nurses, other employees to workplace violence
News Release: COLUMBUS, OH ‒ A Columbus children's hospital failed to protect employees - including nurses and mental health professionals - from patients whose bites, kicks, punches and other assaults caused serious injuries, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
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Owens Blasts Biden’s Free College Agenda: “Radical, Costly, and Unlawful”
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee Chairman Burgess Owens (R-UT), delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing titled “Breaking the System Part II: Examining the Implications of Biden’s Student Loan Policies for Students and Taxpayers"...
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Foxx & Comer: Biden Administration Hijacking the Court System to Enact a Radical Student Loan Cancellation Agenda
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) today are raising concerns about the Biden administration’s ongoing efforts to hijack the court system to enact a radical student...
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Biden is Placing Student Loan Debt on Taxpayers With No Loans
News Release: WASHINGTON - Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor today in support of H.J. Res. 45, a Congressional Review Act resolution that will bar President Biden and the Department of Education from moving forward with their student loan cancellation scheme and prevent any further extension of the student loan repayment pause.
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A Win for Students and Taxpayers
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House passed H.J. Res. 45, a Congressional Review Act resolution to bar President Biden and the Department of Education from moving forward with their student loan cancellation scheme and prevent any further extension of the student loan repayment pause.
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Lubbock Mayor Payne recognizes ‘Digging Deep in Lubbock Workshop 2023'
News Release: Lubbock Mayor Payne recognizes ‘Digging Deep in Lubbock Workshop 2023'
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US Department of Labor announces more than $12M in grant funding available for worker safety, health training grants
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of more than $12.7 million in funding to make more good jobs available to the U.S. workforce by supporting training initiatives designed to promote safe and healthy in the nation's workplaces.
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Chairman Owens to Hold Part Two of Hearing on Biden’s Free College Agenda – Tomorrow at 10:15A.M.
News Release: Tomorrow at 10:15 a.m., the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), will hold a hearing titled “Breaking the System Part II: Examining the Implications of Biden’s Student Loan Policies for Students and Taxpayers."
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US Department of Labor finds contractor exposed workers to trench hazards after investigation into 23-year-old worker's fatality in Aurora
News Release: AURORA, CO - In late December 2022, an unprotected trench at an Aurora residential worksite collapsed and fatally injured a 23-year-old employee, a tragedy that a Brighton sewer and water contractor could have prevented by using required protections against a leading cause of industry deaths.
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Foxx, Kiley Question EEOC Chair Over Reporting Failures and Backlog Issues
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Kiley (R-CA) sent a letter to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Charlotte Burrows raising concerns about the lack of transparency and performance...
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News Release: KENTON, OH ‒ In certain concentrations, flammable vapors can ignite, leading to powerful explosions and leaving workers seriously injured or worse. For workers manufacturing plastic resin, the high heat used in the production process increases the risks.
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US Department of Labor places New Jersey manufacturer in Severe Violator Enforcement Program after worker suffers serious, preventable amputation
News Release: BURLINGTON, NJ - An employee's first day of work at a southern New Jersey manufacturing facility ended tragically when he suffered the amputation of three fingers while operating a press brake without required safety guards, similar to violations cited by federal safety investigators at the facility in 2010 and 2015.
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OSHA encourages stakeholders to share feedback on effectiveness of leading indicators to improve, develop resource tool
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is asking for stakeholder input on their current use of leading indicators and their impact on managing their safety and health management systems.
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US Department of Labor, Shipbuilders Council of America renew alliance to promote safe, healthful workplaces in Mid-Atlantic shipyard industry
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Shipbuilders Council of America and its associate members have renewed an alliance to continue protecting the Mid-Atlantic region’s shipbuilding workers from workplace safety and health hazards.
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US Department of Labor finds Colorado contractor exposing workers to trench cave-ins, including one that caused teenager's fatal injuries
News Release: DENVER - When federal workplace safety inspectors opened an investigation in March 2023 of an excavation worksite in Fort Collins, they determined GoldStar Excavation and Sewer was still ignoring the same federal safety standards that could have prevented a trench collapse in Greeley in the summer of 2022 that led to the death of a teenaged company employee.
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US Department of Labor cites 2 employers after workers show elevated levels of inorganic arsenic at Georgia chemical manufacturing facility
News Release: CONLEY, GA - A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found that two companies operating at a Conley wood treatment chemical manufacturing facility exposed workers to chemical hazards.