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I appreciate that the work of the DOL is available for the public to access. It’s nice to know what goes on day-to-day and not just brief news reports on occassion.
It seems that the money spent overseas may be well spent, however in addition to setting up schools in foreign countries, we should be refusing to import from countries who do not live up to our expectations. In that way they would have a direct financial incentive to find more acceptable ways to treat their population. In addition, American companies working overseas ought to be transparent in their human rights dealings and with environmental concerns. They too should be held to a higher standard if they want to sell to the U.S. and get our govenrnment benefits. Many of them are working overseas mainly because they get cheap labor and don’t need to deal with environmental restrictions. In the meantime, American workers lose the jobs.
I recently was at the US Department of Labor website, and was interested in how to find out more information about several items. I am a Job Developer for a nonprofit in Rhode Island and I am interested in several programs that were highlighted in the December 16th issue: (1) TYhe Pathways Out of Poverty Grants, (2) Project GATE, and (3) Programs that are specific to formerly incarcerated individuals through such agencies as the SBA,SBDC or other Federal Agencies., such as job training programs; grants for nonprofits that establish employment training programs; and are there any programs offered through the US Department of Labor that are specific to formerly incarcerated individuals. Any assistance or information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Please, feel free to look under upcoming ETA funding oportunities.
I have worked in a right-to-work state and feel in is unfair because the employer does not have to have a reason to lay-off or fire an employee. I have seen, first hand, two employee get fired. These upstanding, very polite people were fired for disagreeing with a policy (which I myself) thought was very unjust. I was threatened with a gun by a doctor I worked for, called every agency to help. I was told an employee has “no rights” except to “leave”. In addition, no lunch or breaks for 8 hrs. It’s up to company policy.
I see more states are accepting the right to work state.
I do not see the point of this page unless you live in another type of state.
Signed….Confused.
DOL takes a lot of heat, but you all do a lot of good as well. For that I thank you.
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I’m teary-eyed reading the article and touched that DOL is taking an active stance. One of my first jobs out of grad school started me $20,000 less than my male counterpart. Just over two years ago I was working for a small not-for-profit organization – they let me go when my doctor put me on bed rest (I was pregnant with twins at the time). I still get extremely depressed when I think about it. I hope DOL can look into protecting women who were in my situation – as of now the labor law only applies to companies with 50 or more employees.
It seems that the money spent overseas may be well spent, however in addition to setting up schools in foreign countries, we should be refusing to import from countries who do not live up to our expectations. In that way they would have a direct financial incentive to find more acceptable ways to treat their population. In addition, American companies working overseas ought to be transparent in their human rights dealings and with environmental concerns. They too should be held to a higher standard if they want to sell to the U.S. and get our govenrnment benefits. Many of them are working overseas mainly because they get cheap labor and don’t need to deal with environmental restrictions. In the meantime, American workers lose the jobs.
What ever happen to the 50/50 law? this is were the employer could not make the work site all of one type of people. who do i need to contact about this and how can i keep it from happening.
It appears that the “50/50” law is a requirement that is applied to Department of Defense in its federal procurement activities. Thus, it appears that because this law is outside the purview of DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), since it doesn’t involve federal contractors adherence to its non-discrimination obligations, it would be best addressed through the procurement offices of DOD, and not OFCCP. I trust this addresses your inquiry.
Is this the proper way to wear a hard hat?
Don’t Think so!
Bill
Depth of labor treated. Me harshly for report former employer. You’re encouraged. To report. Them.what. workers rights.a federal agency needs to oversee workcomp.
illegal immigrants are stealing my benifits buy the billions
my fought for my constitstution and to have the obama adm
and the sec of labor to give them away to illigals is not only illegql
but simply wrong send all illegql back to mexico and all involved.
How many times can an unemployed person be turned down for jobs and be told by his local unemployment office that he can be paid to attend school until his last check comes in November. I want to know how many extensions he is allowed? What if he has ADHD and had a terrible time in jr.college. Most of his interviews end as soon as they see how old he is, it is illegal, but trust me it happens. Is there paperwork he can fill out for another extension.
Clearly, the DOL has grown into a self-perpetuating monster — there are good people in the organization, but they are over-shadowed by the people just there to do a job and collect a paycheck as opposed to those who really care about putting America back to work.
How is it that a Health Insurance Company can charge a working couple extra fees if the spouse (significant other) has a secondary health insurance plan?
Honda of Marysville, Ohio, has passed out information that states employees whose spouse has a secondary health insurance will be charged an extra fee in order for the spouse to maintain coverage on both the employees’ health insurance and their own secondary health insurance.
I am a retired United States Marine who has secondary insurance through TriCare, why are we now going to be penalized for being able to maintain a secondary health care plan?
When are the rich going to leave the poorer working class alone?
Is there a law to protect the working class from these types of fees/penalties?
Sec. Hilda,
Sooo, anyone who is concerned about runaway government is a, “teabagger?” As a member of Labor in private industry, I can tell your your remarks including that obscene insult are offensive to a great many citizens who labor for our living, and who do not like seeing the government squander our hard earned $$ on wishful stinking thinking programs that don’t work. You can tell your boss I’ll be sure to be working against his re-election. Clinton’s juicing the CRA (look it up. It is in the news, but you have to look.) proved to be crushing to the nation when the housing bubble burst, and Obama’s crazy health coverage debacle will finish the United States off. Waaay too much domestic government is going on; way too much government overreach is going on and it has to be stopped. The Tea Party people are the only ones talking sense and, oh by the way, some of them are Democrats! And their meetings are a lot cleaner than those by the occupy wall street clowns and bums. I look forward to 2012 election day.
I see more states are accepting the right to work state.
I do not see the point of this page unless you live in another type of state.
Signed….Confused.
I am a retired United States Marine who has secondary insurance through TriCare, why are we now going to be penalized for being able to maintain a secondary health care plan?
When are the rich going to leave the poorer working class alone?
Is there a law to protect the working class from these types of fees/penalties?
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I have Progressive MS and I work for Non-App.Fund as a Child Care Provider in a Child Development Centre in Germany from my wheel chair.
Parents and others accept me and I’m able to do almost all and have found ways to compensate for the problems.
However, the problem I still have is that sometimes I can not work the full 20 hours per week required by NAF. Management has made this into an issue. Isn’t there some way that this can be worked into an “accomidation” item? So the faculity management will not get into problems with it from headquarters? They are very supportive. Help
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Blogs will definitely help the people understand and see updates on what dol does. I hope this is updated often unlike other gov blogs which is only good at the beginning.
One question: When will the new minimum wage/overtime protections for in-home care workers be implemented?
Lisa, thank you for your interest in our work. The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register on December 27, and is open for public comment until February 27. You can read and comment on it here: http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=WHD-2011-0003-0001. The department will carefully review every comment before proceeding to the next step: the drafting and publication of a final rule. There are many factors involved, including how many comments are submitted, so it’s difficult to name an exact date, but we hope to move forward as quickly as we can while ensuring that we allow enough time to review and consider the feedback we receive.
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Recently the unemployment rate decreased. Did the methodology to calculate the unemployment rate change and therefore was responsible for the lower percentage number?
Why has DOL not conducted an investigation of my former employer and there equipment supplier who lied to the U.S federal government in there investigation?
It was a DOL/OSHA investigator who supplied me with inside information that showed that they suspected they were lying in there investigation.
I used that information to prove on fourteen diffrent dates and timelined call with recieved faxes that clearly and indisputibly show they lied to the U.S Federal government in there investigation.
Between the fourteen calls and faxes with the other evidence this is a slam dunk case of “Title 18,United States Code,Section 1001″ lying to U.S fedreal investigators .
What would have happened if we lied to U.S federal investigators during an active investigation Ms Solis?
This is just part of what that OSHA investigator said when he tipped me off with that inside information
” I’m not suppose to show you this if you know what i mean,because your not suppose to write it down if you know what i mean”
-need i say more Ms Solis?
Print on paper does absolutely nothing to prevent tragedies. They happen despite the best of intentions. However, what is truly tragic, are the perceptions: 1) that regulation is law–it is not, because it is not created by the legislative process; 2) that regulation actually does anything for the person or group of persons described as beneficiaries of regulation. In actual fact, ALL regulation does is create an excuse for an (unconstitutional) administrative agency to fine a business for something deemed a violation. That’s the big con, folks. If, for instance, a miner is injured, or a person suffers injury while working and a bully organization like OSHA or MSHA steps in, the only thing that the agency does is collect money from the employer. That’s it. The person and his/her family is still responsible for pursuing damages in court. In otherwords, agencies create rules simply to be able to get what essentially are damages to perpetuate themselves without having to prevail in a negligence action against the employer in court. That’s ridiculous.
It really is time for people, and particularly for business owners, to band together and adopt the mantra, “I will not comply”. Administrators cannot wield lawmaking authority AT ALL, according to either the U.S. Consitution or the constitutions of the states. Legislative authority is vested only in legislatures. OSHA possesses no legitimate authority to compel anyone to do anything.
The only reason that businesses have bowed to regulator-bullies during the past 100 years is the existence of a system built piece-by-piece (principally by allowing Supreme Court justices to amend the Constitution by substituting interpretations for the words in the Constitution), in which We the People no longer earn money of real, intrinsic value as payment for our exertions. Instead, we earn dollars, which now exist primarily in binary form. We’re even contemplating a transformation into a cashless society, which is the final step to complete the separation of individuals from control of their financial destinies, and subjecting our finances to supervisory oversight and social engineering. Therefore, although it is extremely uncomfortable to even contemplate, we all MUST transform our earnings into things of real value and possess them. We need to take steps to be able to disengage from state-administered utilities and to grow food for our families. We must exercise our Natural Right to keep and bear arms (the Bill of Rights is a list of promises that no authority of government–legislative (Congress), executive (President), or Judicial (the Courts)–may ever be used to infringe upon or interfere with ANY natural right). We must form agreements with friends and neighbors, expand those agreements to other neighborhoods, and to our coworkers and employers, etc. to resist and oppose regulator activity. Finally, we must reconnect with the thinking of the Founding Fathers. Freedom is worth the loss of all worldly possessions.
No agency rule ever is submitted to or passed by Congress or a state legislature and therefore possesses NO authority. Only an act passed by a legislature and enacted by the signature of the President or a governor is law. I WILL NOT COMPLY.
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