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US Department of Labor announces $1.4M in grants to prevent, respond to workplace gender-based violence, harassment
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $1.4 million in funding to support efforts by four community organizations to prevent and respond to gender-based violence and harassment against underserved and marginalized women workers.
BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES RULE TO PROTECT RETIREMENT SAVERS’ INTERESTS BY UPDATING INVESTMENT ADVICE FIDUCIARY DEFINITION
The Biden-Harris administration announced today that the U.S. Department of Labor has finalized its Retirement Security Rule to protect the millions of workers who are saving for retirement diligently and rely on advice from trusted professionals on how to invest their savings. This final rule will achieve this by updating the definition of an investment advice fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code.
BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION FINALIZES RULE TO INCREASE COMPENSATION THRESHOLDS FOR OVERTIME ELIGIBILITY, EXPANDING PROTECTIONS FOR MILLIONS OF WORKERS
The Biden-Harris administration today announced a final rule that expands overtime protections for millions of the nation’s lower-paid salaried workers by increasing the salary thresholds required to exempt a salaried bona fide executive, administrative or professional employee from federal overtime pay requirements.
US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REQUIRES TENNESSEE PARTS MANUFACTURER TO TURN OVER PROFITS FROM OPPRESSIVE CHILD LABOR USE, COMPENSATE VICTIMS
Tuff Torq Corp. to pay $296K civil penalty for employing children to operate dangerous machinery, requiring them to work more hours than the law allows
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ANNOUNCES PROPOSAL TO RESTORE, EXTEND OVERTIME PROTECTIONS FOR 3.6 MILLION LOW-PAID SALARIED WORKERS
Proposed rule would ensure that more workers receive extra pay for long hours
US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR RECOVERS $17K FOR EIGHT WORKERS AFTER INVESTIGATION FINDS GUAM FEDERAL SUBCONTRACTOR SHORTCHANGED WORKERS’ WAGES, BENEFITS
The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $17,164 in back wages from a federal subcontractor who denied full wages and benefits to eight workers providing pest control services at U.S. Air Force and Navy installations on Guam.
US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REMINDS SOUTHEAST EMPLOYERS TO PROTECT WORKERS AGAINST HEAT ILLNESS’ SERIOUS DANGERS
As temperatures and the risk of heat illness rise in Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration reminds employers and workers not to ignore the dangers of working in hot weather – indoors and out. Incorporating water, rest and shade can be the difference between ending the workday safely or suffering serious injuries or worse.
US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR INVESTIGATION RECOVERS $124K FOR 40 WORKERS OF HAMPTON BEACH CLOTHING RETAILER, ASSESSES $18K IN PENALTIES
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has recovered $123,750 in back wages and liquidated damages for 40 workers of a Hampton Beach clothing retailer after finding the employer paid some employees cash off the books and paid straight time for overtime for hours over 40 in a workweek.
COURT ORDERS NORFOLK STAFFING AGENCY TO PAY MORE THAN $7.2M IN BACK WAGES, DAMAGES TO 1,105 AIDES, NURSES AFTER FEDERAL INVESTIGATION, LITIGATION
Steadfast Medical Staffing willfully misclassified workers, shortchanged overtime pay
US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ANNOUNCES PROPOSAL TO RETURN TO LONG-STANDING POLICY, PRACTICE ON RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a proposal to rescind the final rule “Implementing Legal Requirements Regarding the Equal Opportunity Clause’s Religious Exemption.” The final rule has been in effect since Jan. 8, 2021. The Federal Register will publish the proposal on Nov. 9, 2021. Rescinding this rule would have the effect of returning department policy and practice to those that were operative during the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.