A total of 359 employees will receive money after the U.S. Labor Department investigation.
The statement comes from Thomas E. Perez.
Funding is available for the project to advance workers' rights.
Elliott F. Kaye has been sworn in as the tenth chairman in the history of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health launched a year ago and will hold its first stand-alone meeting next March in Arlington, Va.
Taking place Oct. 5-11, the week has a "Working Smoke Alarms Save Lives" theme.
The landmark regulation will be phased in over the next two years.
Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre announced the search will begin in September after ships mapping the sea floor in the new search area complete their survey work.
Workers allegedly were exposed to preventable fire, chemical and mechanical hazards.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration developed the rule, working closely with the Federal Aviation Administration.
OSHA proposed fines of $111,650 following inspection at a Packaging Corporation of America facility.
The fines proposed against S and S Communication Specialists Inc. are the maximum amount possible -- $7,000 per serious violation -- in connection with the collapse of two towers in Clarksburg, W.Va., on Feb. 1, 2014.
The president's Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order will require that new federal contractors with contracts valued at more than $500,000 disclose labor law violations for the previous three years. The National Association of Manufacturers responded that this is "a dangerous game for our President to be playing with federal contracts."
The proposal aims to simplify the process and improve consistency, with an emphasis on more serious conditions.
Alleged violations at a Chicago store brought a proposed penalty of $110,700.
Visitors can sign in to its website for access to 10 from this year’s Conference & Expo.
The citations stem from work sites where employees were performing roofing work without fall protection.