April 25, 2017

OSHA recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day in Wichita, Kansas

WICHITA, Kan. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.

April 25, 2017

OSHA recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day in Madison, Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.

April 25, 2017

OSHA recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day in Rockford, Illinois

ROCKFORD, Ill. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.

April 25, 2017

OSHA recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day in Peoria, Illinois

PEORIA, Ill. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.

April 25, 2017

OSHA recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day in Ohio

CLEVELAND – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country on Friday, April 28.

April 25, 2017

OSHA Recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day

ATLANTA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28 at 3 p.m. CDT by participating in a memorial at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 429 in Nashville, Tennessee.

April 25, 2017

OSHA Recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day

ATLANTA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28 at 10 a.m. EDT by participating in an observance at the Old State Capitol building in Raleigh, North Carolina.

April 25, 2017

OSHA Recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day

ATLANTA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28 by participating in an observance in Lancaster, Kentucky.

April 25, 2017

OSHA Recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day

ATLANTA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28 by participating in four separate commemorative events throughout Florida.

April 25, 2017

OSHA Recognizes Workers’ Memorial Day

ATLANTA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28 at 9 a.m. CDT by participating in a training event at the Alabama Workforce Training Facility in Birmingham, Alabama.

April 24, 2017

OSHA administrative law judge rules that Massachusetts companies operated as single employer at worksite where 3 workers fell

BOSTON – An administrative law judge with the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has ruled that two Massachusetts contractors – A.C. Castle Construction Co. Inc. and Daryl Provencher, doing business as Provencher Home Improvements – were operating as a single employer at a Wenham worksite when three employees were injured in October 2014.

April 20, 2017

US Department of Labor recovers more than $41K for the St. Paul-based Weinhagen Tire Co. Inc. 401(k) Plan

Date of Action: April 11, 2017

Type of Action: Consent order and judgment

Names of Defendant: Michael E. Weinhagen
Weinhagen Tire Co. Inc.
Weinhagen Tire Co. Inc. 401(k) Plan

Findings: Michael E. Weinhagen is the sole owner and president of St. Paul, Minnesota-based Weinhagen Tire Co. and the fiduciary to the Weinhagen Tire Co. Inc. 401(k) Plan.

April 20, 2017

Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report

In the week ending April 15, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 244,000, an increase of 10,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 234,000. The 4-week moving average was 243,000, a decrease of 4,250 from the previous week's unrevised average of 247,250.

April 19, 2017

US Labor Department awards more than $1.6M in incremental funding to continue employment services for Silicon Valley workers affected by layoffs

State: California

Type of Award: National Dislocated Worker Grant

Initial Amount Approved: $3,200,000

Incremental Amount Awarded: $1,660,430

Funding Awarded to: The NOVA Workforce Board

Number of Workers Served: Approximately 920

April 19, 2017

US Labor Department awards $3M in incremental funding to continue clean-up, recovery efforts after Northern California’s 2015 fires

State: California

Type of Award: National Dislocated Worker Grant

Initial Amount Approved: $11,000,000

Incremental Amount Awarded: $3,000,000

Funding Awarded to: California Employment Development Department

Number of Workers Served: Approximately 550

April 18, 2017

Court orders nationwide staffing company CEO to pay $135K in back wages, damages to former live-in domestic worker

SAN DIEGO – The CEO of a leading U.S. staffing company will pay a former live-in domestic service worker $135,000 in back wages and damages under the terms of a consent judgment entered into the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

April 18, 2017

US Labor Department, Texas Workforce Solutions to host symposium, job fair

Who: U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
Texas Workforce Solutions of the Coastal Bend

What: Falfurrias Border Patrol Station Symposium and Job Fair

When: April 20, 2017
Symposium: 9-11a.m. CDT
Job Fair: 1-3p.m. CDT

April 18, 2017

US Labor Department grant awards up to $7M for clean-up, recovery efforts after California’s severe storms in January

State: California

Type of Award: National Dislocated Worker Grant

Award Amount Approved: $7,000,000

Initial Amount Released: $3,500,000

Funding Awarded to: California Employment Development Department

Number of Workers Served: Approximately 350

April 17, 2017

Court finds that First Bankers Trust Services overpaid $9.4M for shares of New Jersey paving, building company stock

NEW YORK – A federal judge, presiding over a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit, has found that First Bankers Trust Services Inc. breached its duties of prudence and loyalty to the participants of an employee stock ownership plan sponsored by a New Jersey paving and building site preparation company when it caused the plan to overpay $9.4 million for shares of the company’s stock.

April 17, 2017

Settlement resolves 24-year-old hiring discrimination case

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has settled a case that arose from a 1993 compliance review of NationsBank, N.A., that found systematic hiring violations involving African-American applicants for entry-level jobs and led to more than two decades of litigation. NationsBank merged with the Bank of America, N.A. in 1998.