Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels said the agreement "sets the tone for other railroad employers throughout the U.S. to take steps to ensure that their workers are not harassed, intimidated, or terminated, in whole or part, for reporting workplace injuries."
The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found numerous violations requiring a restaurant to pay current and former workers $84,864.
"It would surprise me if OSHA didn't involve itself in home-based work," says John Michael, vice president and general manager of Business Interiors by Staples.
The new $9.19 per hour minimum in Washington state applies to workers in all industries, but 14- and 15-year-olds legally may be paid just 85 percent of it.
Six states and the District of Columbia were awarded funds that can help provide insurance for the unemployed.
The workers' comp reforms enacted in 2011 required Gov. Mary Fallin to appoint a new presiding judge to serve a two-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2013.
Secretary Solis announced the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee, a group that will aid and advise DOL in protecting whistleblowers.
Significant numbers of workers ages 50-54 say they must work night shifts, lift heavy loads, and work at high speed, causing one-third of this age group to say they believe they won’t be able to work to age 60 or wouldn’t want to do the same job until then.
In a National Press Club speech Nov. 16, Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert said he is concerned about rising suicide and sexual assault rates, saying they rank high among the issues the Navy is addressing.
The Labor Department had sued four firms and their owners and officers Oct. 21, 2010, asserting they had violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and breached their fiduciary duties to benefit plans by recommending, making, and maintaining investments with Bernie Madoff.
The Department of Energy has discovered financial ties between a contractor and a subcontractor at a nuclear cleanup site, raising questions of partiality.
A training test supplied to a guard force for the Energy Department allegedly was given to employees before they took the test.
Moreover, 20 percent of people said in the survey they are concerned for their physical safety in the workplace.
Writing in the Fall 2012 issue of Johns Hopkins Public Health, Dean Michael J. Klag calls for the same kind of collaboration as has been used to reduce annual traffic deaths significantly.
A trio of NIOSH employees discussed the enormous cost of arthritis on the agency's Science Blog. They report its prevalence is expected to rise to 25 percent of the adult population by 2030.
A Tennessee employee is reinstated and compensated after winning whistleblower case.
The U.S. Department of Labor launched the Workplace Flexibility Toolkit during National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
ASIS International has proposed the quality management standard, with stakeholders’ comments due by Oct. 26, ANSI announced Oct. 4.
Minneapolis-based Nash Finch, described as the second-largest publicly traded U.S. wholesale food distributor, is paying that amount in back wages to 84 women rejected for entry-level order selector jobs at a distribution facility in Lumberton, N.C.
Winning bragging rights can be rewarding in and of itself, but if there’s a carrot being dangled, we become even more determined.