| Were supporting the workers who keep America running in many ways and promoting their right to organize and bargain for themselves. | 
U.S. Department of Labor | | February 11, 2022 |
| White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment issues report The White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment released a report with nearly 70 recommendations approved by President Biden that promote worker organizing and collective bargaining for public and private sector employees. |
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| Secretary Walsh and Deputy Secretary Su highlight Biden administration investments in American workforce In New Orleans this week, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and Deputy Secretary Julie Su touted the Biden-Harris administrations focus on good jobs, wages and workforce training. While there, they met with workers rebuilding Louisiana after devastating hurricanes. Read tweets from the secretarys trip. |
| Empowering warehouse and logistics workers Increased demand and constraints on the global supply chain have strained the nations warehouse and logistics industries. Were taking action to empower warehouse and logistics workers. |
| Grants for pandemic-related employment and training We issued more than $2 million in grants for pandemic-related employment and training services this week, including: |
| New guidance for states on waiving recovery of some unemployment insurance benefits overpayments New guidance outlines scenarios in which states can waive recovery of overpaid CARES Act program benefits for claimants who are not at fault. This waiver does not cover fraudulent unemployment benefits overpayments, which must be repaid. |
|  | Supporting healthcare workers Amid the pandemic, U.S. healthcare workers experienced a 249% increase in injury and illness rates in 2020. OSHA is calling on healthcare employers, and those in related industries, to help reduce injuries and illnesses. |
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|  | Overtime recovered A New Jersey company and its co-managers must pay 89 workers $711,694 after deliberately denying them overtime wages. |
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|  | Child labor violations A Florida bakery employed a 13-year-old worker as an unpaid volunteer, and risked the childs safety by illegally allowing them to operate a power-driven bread slicer. |
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|  | Black mothers health Representation matters, and its absence has disparate, and sometimes disastrous, consequences. Find out how medical and academic institutions are tackling the Black maternal health crisis in the U.S. |
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|  | $432K for caregivers An Indianapolis employer who denied home healthcare workers the overtime pay theyd earned must pay $432,797 in back wages and damages. |
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