News from May 2023
Foxx, Kiley to Su: Don't Shame America's Farmers
By DOL Newswire | May 26, 2023
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.
Foxx, Walberg, Chavez-DeRemer Demand Answers from Su on Trafficking of Migrant Children
By DOL Newswire | May 26, 2023
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.
17 notices published in week ending May 13 by Labor Department
By DOL Newswire | May 28, 2023
There were 17 notices published by the Labor Department in week ending May 13, according to the Federal Register.
DOL-ETA grant application closes on July 28
By DOL Newswire | May 30, 2023
Announcement of a Grant Opportunity to Support State Unemployment Insurance (UI) Information Technology (IT) Modernization Activities Under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) grant opened on May 30.
MEDIA ADVISORY: HELP Committee to Hold Hearing on Worsening Child Care Crisis
By DOL Newswire | May 31, 2023
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."
US Department of Labor finds fire, electrical, other hazards in inspections at two southeast Oklahoma Dollar General stores putting workers at risk
By DOL Newswire | May 31, 2023
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.
NEWS: Ahead of HELP Hearing, Sanders and Murray Release Report on Worsening Child Care Crisis, Imminent Funding Cliff
By DOL Newswire | May 31, 2023
News Release: Chairman Sanders and Former Chair Murray’s Report Finds the End of Critical Relief Funds Will Force Many Child Care Providers to Raise Tuition for Working Families, Reduce Wages for Workers, Serve Fewer Children, or Close their Programs for Good