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Final Overtime Rules Attacked By 21 States, Business Coalition Suing DOL
By Joy Waltemath and Pamela Wolf, J.D. — Nevada, joined by 20 other states, has filed a lawsuit in Texas—undoubtedly perceived as friendly after the success of the recent litigation over immigration reform—challenging Department of Labor’s final overtime rules under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act. Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt […]
August Unemployment Down In 365 Of 387 Metro Areas
01/10/2015 Comments Off on August Unemployment Down In 365 Of 387 Metro Areas
By Bureau of Labor Statistics Publications Jobless rates were lower in August than a year earlier in 365 of the 387 metro areas, higher in 16, and unchanged in 6. Nonfarm payroll employment was up in 303 metropolitan areas over the year, down in 71, and unchanged in 13. Source:: Metro Area Unemployment And Employment
Continue reading …How The DOL Let Companies Get Away With Unpaid Internships
05/05/2014 Comments Off on How The DOL Let Companies Get Away With Unpaid Internships
By Kara Brandeisky and Jeremy B. Merrill, ProPublica- Two years after the U.S. Department of Labor announced its intent to crack down on unpaid internships, a federal investigator called a final meeting with the biggest offender the agency had found: an outdoors magazine based in Santa Fe, N.M. The investigator reported interns at Outside magazine had […]
Continue reading …U.S. Department Of Labor Sequestration Information
12/04/2013 Comments Off on U.S. Department Of Labor Sequestration InformationFor anyone wondering about the reality of sequestration for major government agencies, here are the U.S. Department of Labor’s online resources for its employees who are facing the blunt end of sequestration. U.S. Department Of Labor Sequestration Information The following information is provided to assist DOL employees who may be impacted by budget reductions required by sequestration. […]
Continue reading …Imports Helped Kill The Twinkie, Hostess Brands Workers Get Assistance
19/02/2013 Comments Off on Imports Helped Kill The Twinkie, Hostess Brands Workers Get Assistance
By WideWorldOfWork.com— Imports of cheap baked goods helped kill the Twinkie and the Ding Dong. A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found that increased imports of baked products contributed importantly to Hostess Brands’ sales declines, worker layoffs and ultimately its bankruptcy liquidation. The DOL says that the approximately 18,000 workers laid off in 48 […]
Continue reading …OSHA Fines Bacardi $192,000 After Temp Worker Killed On First Day
14/02/2013 Comments Off on OSHA Fines Bacardi $192,000 After Temp Worker Killed On First Day
Lawrence Daquan “Day” Davis’ first day as a temp worker at Bacardi Bottling Corp. in Jacksonville, Fla., turned out to be his last day on Earth. Davis, 21, was crushed to death by a palletizer machine at the Jacksonville Bacardi facility in August 2012. Davis was cleaning glass from under the hoist of a palletizing […]
Continue reading …MythBusters’ Choice: DOL Worker Safety & Health App Challenge Winners
14/01/2013 Comments Off on MythBusters’ Choice: DOL Worker Safety & Health App Challenge Winners
Chosen by a panel of judges that included MythBusters co-hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, here’s a closer look at the U.S. Department of Labor’s winners of its Worker Safety and Health App Challenge 2013. Prizes totaling $30,000 are being awarded to four entrants who submitted tools that best demonstrate the importance of recognizing and […]
Continue reading …MythBusters Help DOL Pick Winners Of Worker Safety & Health App Contest
14/01/2013 Comments Off on MythBusters Help DOL Pick Winners Of Worker Safety & Health App Contest
TV’s MythBusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, are once again using science and engineering to help keep America’s youth safe at work. Savage and Hyneman, cohosts of Discovery Channel’s popular MythBusters, were among a panel to judges that selected winners of the U.S. Department of Labor’s “Safety in the Workplace Innovator Award,” the “Safety and […]
Continue reading …Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Leaves Legacy Of Worker Protections, Unfinished Business
11/01/2013 Comments Off on Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Leaves Legacy Of Worker Protections, Unfinished Business
By CHRIS HAMBY, Center for Public Integrity— With her resignation this week, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis leaves behind a department advocates say has adopted a renewed focus on enforcing worker safety laws but been unable to push through a number of long-sought regulations. The first Hispanic woman to hold the top post at a Cabinet-level agency, […]
Continue reading …Hershey Chocolate Sweatshop Case’s Bittersweet Ending, Back Wages Paid
05/12/2012 Comments Off on Hershey Chocolate Sweatshop Case’s Bittersweet Ending, Back Wages Paid
The workforce at a warehouse run by Hershey’s chocolate contractors melted down in sweatshop conditions in August 2011, exposing a summer employment scam that took advantage students from around the world. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has recovered more than $213,000 in back wages for 1,028 foreign students who worked in summer jobs in […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill