News from 2023
US Department of Labor announces $10.5M funding availability to support mine safety, health training, education
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Mine Safety and Health Administration is making $10.5 million grant funding available to help provide mine safety training for the nation’s miners.
Labor Department discusses Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Program To Prevent Smoking in Hazardous Areas of Underground Coal Mines on April 20
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
Department of Labor, industry partners to promote road construction worker safety during 2023 National Work Zone Awareness Week
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2023
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will join construction organizations in Georgia to promote worker safety and encourage industry employers to hold safety stand-downs at roadwork sites and in traffic work zones during National Work Zone Awareness Week, April 17 to 21.
Federal court orders owner of Nissan of St. Charles to restore $13K in employee contributions not forwarded to Simple IRA fund
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2023
Release: Date of Action: April 10, 2023
US Department of Labor awards $90K to Massachusetts to continue employment, training services in response to manufacturing layoffs
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an incremental award of $90,188 to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development to provide continued reemployment and training services to people in the Lower Merrimack Valley affected by manufacturing industry layoffs.
US Department of Labor finds Arizona veterans’ healthcare facility exposed employees to potentially deadly hazards on steam lines
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2023
News Release: PRESCOTT, AZ - Federal safety inspectors found that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs endangered maintenance workers at its healthcare facility in Prescott by allowing them to work on steam lines without ensuring they followed required safety procedures.
Federal safety investigators find Alabama paper mill willfully bypassed safety regulations, leading to fatal electrocution of 36-year-old worker
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2023
News Release: MAPLESVILLE, AL - Federal workplace safety inspectors examining how a 36-year-old worker suffered fatal electrocution in a Maplesville paper mill found his employer willfully violating safety standards, including disregarding hazardous energy control procedures that protect employees performing maintenance on machinery.
US Department of Labor finds Mississippi farm willfully disregarded safety standards after South African guest worker suffocates in storage bin
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2023
News Release: GREENWOOD, MS - Had federal workplace safety regulations been followed at a LeFlore County soybean farm, a South African teenager employed by its operator would have returned home and not suffocated inside a grain bin in October 2022.
Department of Labor finds City of Delray Beach retaliated against inspector for reporting cross-contamination between tap water, reclaimed sewage
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2023
News Release: DELRAY BEACH, FL - A federal whistleblower investigation has uncovered that Delray Beach retaliated against a city inspector who was fired after finding and reporting faults in the local water system that caused contamination of the public water supply.
Department of Labor recovers $286K in back wages, damages for 143 painters, other employees denied overtime wages by San Bernardino contractor
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2023
News Release: SAN BERNADINO, CA - A San Bernardino home contractor has paid nearly $320,000 after willfully denying overtime wages to 143 painters and other employees, after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.
US Department of Labor, Moss & Associates LLC to promote workplace safety, health during construction of Central Florida hotel
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2023
News Release: US Department of Labor, Moss & Associates LLC to promote workplace
Labor Department publishes notice on April 21
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2023
The US Labor Department published a nine page notice on April 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
US Department of Labor obtains court order to stop Long Island HVAC employer from retaliation, forcing employees to kick back wages
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2023
News Release: Date of action: April 17, 2023
US Department of Labor announces availability of $1M in grants to prevent, respond to workplace gender-based violence, harassment
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of $1 million in funding for up to four grants to prevent and respond to gender-based violence and harassment against underserved and marginalized women workers.
US Department of Labor, Brasfield & Gorrie Construction to promote safety at Alabama construction site
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2023
Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Brasfield & Gorrie Construction. What: Safety alliance agreement. Background: On April 19, OSHA and the Brasfield & Gorrie Construction signed a strategic partnership to promote safety and health practices to help ...
Operator of Zaxby’s franchise in Georgia pays $15K in penalties after federal investigation finds child labor violations at Clarksville restaurant
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2023
Release: Employer: Mcdreams Enterprises Inc., operating as Zaxby’s
US Department of Labor recovers $260K in back wages for 61 caregivers employed by Sarasota nursing staff agency that denied them overtime
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2023
Release: Employer: CSI Catalano’s Nurses Registry Inc., operating as CSI
US Department of Labor, Moss & Associates LLC to promote workplace safety, health during construction of Central Florida hotel
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2023
Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Moss & Associates LLC. University of South Florida On-Site Consultation Program. What: Strategic Partnership agreement. Background: On April 18, 2023, OSHA and Moss & Associates LLC signed a strategic partnership ...
NEWS: HELP Committee to Bring CEOs of Major Insulin Manufacturers and PBMs Together for Historic Hearing to Discuss the Need to Lower Insulin Prices and the Cost of Other Prescription Drugs
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, April 21 - Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced on Friday that the committee will hold a hearing entitled “The Need to Make Insulin Affordable for All Americans" on Wednesday, May 10 at 1:00 p.m. ET.
US Department of Labor, Virginia-based federal technology solutions contractor reach agreement to resolve alleged hiring discrimination
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2023
News Release: RESTON, VA - The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with a technology solutions provider to resolve alleged systemic hiring discrimination against Black applicants at the company’s Reston headquarters.