News from April 2023
Hearing Recap: Workforce Edition
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee hearing covered the Biden administration’s heavy-handed mandates and out-of-touch regulatory policies that have led to high inflation, shortages in skilled labor, and supply chain disruptions.
Hearing Recap: Free Speech on Campus Edition
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee hearing covered the degradation of constitutionally protected free speech on college campuses.
Help Majority Staff Report On Starbucks
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
No Company is Above the Law: Myth-Busting Starbucks’ Claims That it Has Not Violated Federal Labor Law with Impunity
Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member Cassidy Seek Answers on Child Labor Violations
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) today requested answers from Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. (PSSI) following reports that the company had employed more than 102 children between 13 to 17 years of age in hazardous conditions.
PREPARED REMARKS: Chairman Sanders Questions Howard Schultz in HELP Committee Hearing and Calls on Starbucks to End the Illegal Union Busting
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, today led the committee in a hearing titled, “No Company Is Above the Law:
Ranking Member Cassidy Requests Answers over Stanford University’s Failure to Protect Free Speech on Campus
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, raised concerns about Stanford University’s failure to protect freedom of speech after a student-led protest disrupted an event headlined by Judge Kyle Duncan, who serves on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Judge Duncan was originally invited by the Stanford Law School’s Federalist Society to discuss his views on Fifth Circuit cases that were before the Supreme Court for review.
Ranking Member Cassidy Condemns Biden’s Veto of Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Resolution
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, condemned President Biden’s veto of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution overturning a rule authorizing asset managers to prioritize environment, social and governance (ESG) factors over the financial success of their clients’ retirement savings.
Ranking Member Cassidy Releases Statement on Loren Sweatt to be Republican Nominee to National Mediation Board
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after President Biden announced that Loren Sweatt, current Senior Professional Staff Member for the HELP Committee GOP staff, will be nominated to serve as a member of the National Mediation Board (NMB), an independent federal agency that works with the railroad and airline industries on labor relations.
Ranking Member Cassidy Delivers Remarks During Moderna Hearing
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today’s hearing on the price of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. Specifically, he talked about Operation Warp Speed during the COVID-19 pandemic and how private companies stepped up to develop and distribute a life-saving vaccine in under a year.
Ranking Member Cassidy, Cornyn, Ernst, Colleagues Introduce CRA to Overturn Biden’s Reckless Student Loan Schemes
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, John Cornyn (R-TX), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and 36 Republican colleagues introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Biden’s student loan cancelation scheme, which would transfer up to $20,000 in student loan debt per borrower onto taxpayers, costing an estimated $400 billion.
Ranking Member Cassidy Delivers Floor Speech on Nomination of Julie Su for DOL Secretary
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor expressing concern over the nomination of Department of Labor (DOL) Deputy Secretary Julie Su to be Secretary of DOL.
Ranking Member Cassidy Opposes Biden Labor Policy Nominees During Executive Session Vote
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, voted in opposition to six Biden administration nominees to the Department of Labor (DOL) and other labor-related independent agencies during an off-the-floor HELP Committee executive session.
Ranking Member Cassidy, Chair Sanders Seek Answers on Child Labor Violations
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chair of the HELP Committee, requested answers from Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. (PSSI) following reports that the company had employed more than 102 children between 13 to 17 years of age in hazardous conditions.
Labor Department discusses The 1,3-Butadiene Standard; Extension of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements on April 3
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
US Department of Labor investigation of Ohio hardwood flooring mill finds three injuries in five months as company consistently violates safety rules
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2023
News Release: PORTSMOUTH, OH ‒ For the third time in five months, federal safety inspectors responded to a Portsmouth hardwood flooring mill to investigate reports of unsafe machinery. Two of those inspections involved worker’s injuries, the latest on Oct. 5, 2022, when a worker’s fingertip was partially amputated because it was caught in an unguarded belt and pulley.
February: Labor Department publishes 33 notices
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2023
There were 33 notices published by the Labor Department in February, according to the Federal Register.
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Benzene Standard discussed on April 3 by Labor Department
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
Information Collection Activities; Comment Request discussed on April 3 by Labor Department
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
Aerial Lifts Standard; Extension of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements discussed on April 3 by Labor Department
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
Labor Department publishes notice on April 3
By DOL Newswire | Apr 4, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.