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By Amanda McGrory |
May 21, 2012
The U.S. Department of Labor is releasing a $7.2 million National Emergency Grant increment to continue providing re-employment assistance to about 3,200 Florida workers who were impacted by layoffs after the termination of NASA's Space Shuttle Program.
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By Stephen Singer |
May 17, 2012
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration announced Thursday that it has organized an outreach effort to help more than 12,000 long-term jobless workers receive an array of social services after losing extended unemployment insurance benefits.
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By Amanda McGrory |
May 14, 2012
The U.S. Department of Labor is awarding an increment of its National Emergency Grant of $448,197 to provide re-employment services for approximately 713 workers who were laid off at Electrolux in Jefferson and Webster City, Iowa, as well as three of its suppliers in Webster City and Ames, Iowa.
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May 1, 2012
Georgia's Labor Department has launched a new online system to process unemployment claims.
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By Stephen Ohlemacher |
April 23, 2012
An aging population and an economy that has been slow to rebound are straining the long-term finances of Social Security and Medicare, the government's two largest benefit programs.
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By Amanda McGrory |
April 23, 2012
The U.S. Department of Labor is distributing a $7.7 million National Emergency Grant increment that is to be used to continue funding about 700 temporary jobs for eligible dislocated workers to assist with ongoing cleanup and recovery efforts after severe storms and floods hit southeastern Ohio between April 4 and...
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By Amanda McGrory |
April 16, 2012
Bartlett Grain Co. faces five willful and eight serious safety violations cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration after a grain elevator exploded in October in Atchison, Kan., killing six workers and hospitalizing two others.
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By Amanda McGrory |
April 3, 2012
The U.S. Department of Labor is making available a $16,532,485 National Emergency Grant supplement to fund roughly 2,200 temporary jobs to continue helping cleanup and recovery efforts from the tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., on May 22, which caused flooding in multiple Missouri counties between mid-April and early June 2011.
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By Amanda McGrory |
March 30, 2012
After an ongoing enforcement initiative centered on Massachusetts’ restaurant industry, the U.S. Department of Labor has found significant violations of the minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and investigations by the Boston District Office of the DOL's Wage and Hour Division are ordering a...
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By Amanda McGrory |
March 29, 2012
The U.S. Department of Labor is making available $15 million in grants through the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program in an effort to provide job training services to help homeless veterans find success in their civilian careers.
