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The department took steps to eliminate 63 regulations the administration says are unnecessary and stifle growth.
The temperature inside the U.S. Department of Labor headquarters in D.C. topped 80° on Thursday after the air conditioning ...
U.S. job growth was unexpectedly solid in June, but nearly half of the increase in nonfarm payrolls came from the government ...
The Washington Department of Labor and Industries has levied its largest-ever fine against a farm labor contractor, saying a Richland business employed 5,000 in 2024 when it did not have a license ...
The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1 percent, according to a jobs report released Thursday by the Labor Department, ...
FILE - A sign stands outside the Department of Labor’s headquarters in Washington, May 6, 2020. The U.S. House has failed to override President Joe Biden’s first veto on Thursday, March 23, 2023.
Child labor violations in the United States soared in the 2022-2023 fiscal year, according to data released by the Labor Department on Thursday, rising to their highest level in nearly two decades.
A farm labor contractor based in Kennewick, Wash., has been fined $252,475 and banned from recruiting foreign farmworkers for three years by the U.S. Department of Labor. The department accused […] ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A judge in King County Washington ruled that the owner of a labor law poster company violated a consumer protection law “nearly 600,000 times,” Washington Attorney ...
The effort to rein in child labor violations comes amid high-profile cases, some involving children as young as 12 and 13 found working in meatpacking, auto-manufacturing and other dangerous jobs.