WASHINGTON Democratic President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), California OSHA Director Doug Parker, spent his Senate confirmation hearing fending off Republican demands that Biden deep-six a union-pushed Emergency Temporary Standard to comba.
PORTSMOUTH Susan Parker of Greenland is the newest member of the Pease Development Authority board of directors, replacing Peter Loughlin of Portsmouth, who served as a director for 31 years.
The change comes about as a result of legislation in 2019 that changed the member make-up of the PDA board to include, for the first time, representation from Greenland.
The past shared seat of Portsmouth-Newington, which Loughlin held, is now a shared seat of Greenland-Newington in response to concerns that Greenland is impacted by traffic in and out of the tradeport and other issues, but was without a voice on the PDA.
04/29/21
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Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of five grants totaling more than $103 million to five state agencies to continue and expand pilot projects to help newly injured and ill workers remain in the workforce.
Agencies in Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio and Vermont will receive funds to begin the second phase of demonstration projects in the development of the Retaining Employment and Talent after Injury/Illness Network. RETAIN focuses on implementing and evaluating stay-at-work and return-to-work strategies to help people to remain effective contributors to the labor force following illness or injury. States will use grant funds to improve coordination among employers, healthcare providers and other stakeholders able to help workers find alternatives as they decide whether to stay at or return to work following illness or injury.
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Five states to expand projects to develop strategies to keep ill, injured workers in the workforce, RETAIN to improve coordination among employers, healthcare providers, stakeholders
Vermont Business Magazine The US Department of Labor today announced the award of five grants totaling more than $103 million to five state agencies to continue and expand pilot projects to help newly injured and ill workers remain in the workforce.
Agencies in Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio and Vermont will receive funds to begin the second phase of demonstration projects in the development of the Retaining Employment and Talent after Injury/Illness Network. RETAIN focuses on implementing and evaluating stay-at-work and return-to-work strategies to help people to remain effective contributors to the labor force following illness or injury.
Labor Department Opens Dialogue On Teens In The Workplace
The U.S. Department of Labor has opened a national dialogue to improve outreach to teens on workplace issues of safety, wages, job training, and discrimination. Mary Ellen McCandless
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Labor Department Opens Dialogue On Teens In The Workplace
The U.S. Department of Labor has opened a national dialogue to improve outreach to teens on workplace issues of safety, wages, job training, and discrimination.
April 22, 2021
Labor Department Opens Dialogue On Teens In The Workplace
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the U.S. workforce included 4.7 million teens between the ages of 16 and 19 in 2020. In fiscal year 2020, the department recorded child labor violations in more than 850 investigations by its Wage and Hour Division and estimates a teen between 15 and 19 years old requires emergency room treatment for a workplace injury approximately every five minutes.