U.S. Department of Labor | August 14, 2020 |
Unemployment Benefits Guidance New guidance will help states implement the Lost Wages Assistance program providing additional benefits to most unemployment insurance program claimants. |
Safe + Sound Week The Occupational Safety and Health Administrations Safe + Sound Week launched a national conversation about workplace safety and health. |
Meatpacking and Processing Workers Safety OSHA signed an alliance with the North American Meat Institute to provide guidance and training to protect workers in the meatpacking and processing industry from exposure to the coronavirus. |
Short-Time Compensation More than $1.8 million in grants will help promote short-time compensation in Missouri. Employers can use short-time compensation to keep workers on the payroll at reduced work hours, and those workers can supplement their reduced wages with a partial unemployment benefit payment. |
COVID-19 UPDATES AND RESOURCES |
Release: A Dislocated Worker Grant to support workers impacted by the coronavirus in Delaware brings the total awarded to states and territories to $245,249,950. Release: A plumbing contractor has paid back wages to an employee wrongly denied paid leave to care for children whose school was closed due to the coronavirus. Release: A North Carolina trucking and warehousing service has paid back wages for denying paid leave to an employee instructed to self-quarantine due to coronavirus concerns. |
| Mine Rescue Contest The Mine Safety and Health Administration recently completed the first successful mine rescue competition for underground teams in 2020, a significant accomplishment in a year when many competitions have been delayed by the pandemic. | |
| Recovery Grants The Department has awarded more than $2.9 million in disaster recovery grant funding to help workers in Ohio recover from severe storms and flooding in February 2019. | |
| Embezzlement Sentence A federal court has sentenced a former union business manager and financial secretary-treasurer to six months in prison and three years of probation for embezzlement. | |
| Wages Recovered An investigation of two U.S. Customs and Border Protection contractors that violated labor laws has recovered nearly $2.4 million for 959 workers. | |
| Back Wages A federal court has ordered a commercial laundry to pay an additional $527,986 in back wages and damages after a Department appeal. | |
| Bribe Sentence The former vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 812 and former trustee of the Local 812 Health Fund was sentenced to 18 months in jail for soliciting bribe payments. | |
| Nursing Breaks Murphy Oil USA Inc. has agreed to enterprisewide changes to resolve a violation of the FLSAs break time for nursing mothers provision at a service station in North Carolina. | |
Productivity Increases by 7.3% U.S. productivity increased by 7.3% in the second quarter according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. This increase was the largest in more than a decade. |
COMPLIANCE ASSISTANCE HIGHLIGHT |
Coronavirus FAQs What are the key differences between cloth face coverings, surgical masks and respirators? Find answers to these and other common coronavirus workplace safety questions from OSHA. |
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