Sentences with phrase «at the labor department»

The trade groups hired Eugene Scalia, a former top lawyer at the Labor Department who has a strong record of getting courts to strike down government regulations.

Until the lawsuit, banks, mutual funds and insurers presented a united front against the plan, contesting it on Capitol Hill and at the Labor Department.

Economists at the Labor Department will issue the monthly nonfarm payrolls report next Friday.

The Obama administration directive gave regulators at the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs more tools to determine if companies with federal contracts were violating equal pay law.

According to a report by Ann Marsh, for Financial Planning on December 9, «protections for whistleblowers have broken down at the Labor Department.»

He will be replaced by Carol Pendas Whitten, a former schoolteacher who has held three Education Department posts and is now a Congressional liaison at the Labor Department.

Not exact matches

Worksafe analyzed reports filed with the U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and found similarly high injury rates in 2016 at the plant.

The Labor Department will release a preliminary look at the number of U.S. workers who filed new applications for unemployment benefits last week.

While the labor market has returned to more normal levels, with the unemployment rate at around 5.1 percent, overall hiring has remained weak, per the most recent Department of Labor jobs replabor market has returned to more normal levels, with the unemployment rate at around 5.1 percent, overall hiring has remained weak, per the most recent Department of Labor jobs repLabor jobs reports.

At Google, an audit of their pay practices by the Department of Labor found «systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,» showing, one official has said, six to seven standard deviations between pay for men and women in nearly every job category.

Also, the Department of Labor publishes salary levels of each job title at different levels of experience.

Meanwhile, there were only about 2,000 more new hires in the month of April, according to the Labor Department, leaving the hiring rate unchanged at 3.4 % for the third month in a row.

Meanwhile, there will be more economic data released this week that could influence the Fed's stance, including a look at housing data as well as the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index, which likely increased 0.2 % in July.

That puzzle continued earlier Wednesday when Labor Department data showed consumer inflation, excluding food and energy, was lower than expected at 1.7 percent in the 12 months through November.

On Thursday, the online retail giant announced its partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor to start an apprenticeship program that will provide paid, on - the - job training for tech careers at the company.

His colleague at the ILO, Ekkehard Ernst, who heads the Employment Trends Unit at the ILO Research Department and was the main author of the report, agreed it was «imperative» that «active labor market policies be implemented more forcefully to address inactivity and skills mismatch.»

Friday's report will follow the disappointing numbers released earlier this month, when the Labor Department estimated that the U.S. economy added just 142,000 new jobs, below expectations of at least 200,000.

This of course contrasts with the Labor Department's news yesterday that U.S. employers — of all sizes — added 120,000 jobs last month, and as a result the unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent, after a prolonged period at 9 percent.

But now the professionally challenged have a place to turn: Occupational Outlook Handbook, a resource from the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics that is available at www.bls.gov/ocohome.htm.

In total, 15 billion pages of data were stolen from at least 144 U.S. universities, 176 universities across 21 foreign countries, 47 domestic and foreign private sector companies, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the states of Hawaii and Indiana, the United Nations and the United Nations Children's Fund, the Justice Department alleged.

Drinkwater said the new investing rule announced in early April by the Labor Department may spur advisors and clients to work more closely on keeping inflation's effects at bay.

The Department of Labor reported that Initial jobless claims at 367,000 increased 8,000 from the prior week's unrevised figure.

Moynihan, at the time a sociologist and research assistant at the U.S. Labor Department, called for more government action to improve the economic prospects of black families.

Prior week's reading was revised to 218,000 from 215,000, erasing what was originally reported as a 45 - year low Unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits was unchanged at 1.3 percent Colorado and Maine had estimated claims last week, according to the Labor Department

If you're unsure about the proper designation, be sure to review the IRS website, as well as the Department of Labor websites at the federal and state levels, particularly their materials on distinguishing independent contractors from employees, and check your designations with your accountant and / or labor laLabor websites at the federal and state levels, particularly their materials on distinguishing independent contractors from employees, and check your designations with your accountant and / or labor lalabor lawyer.

The Department of Labor's proposed rule would only apply to businesses that paid employees at least the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 an hour.

The ratio of construction job openings to hiring, as measured by the Department of Labor, is at its highest level since 2007.

During her tenure at the Department of Labor, Chao was criticized for supporting the interests of industry over concerns raised by unions.

«The issue with the employee may be that they're not understanding the importance of what you're telling them,» theorizes Michele Williams, a professor at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations in the department of organizational behavior.

Other economic data to be released today includes an update on import and export prices from the Labor Department at 8:30 a.m. ET.

The company's response comes one day after the U.S. Labor Department said it found a disparity at the Alphabet unit.

They rely on daily deal services like Groupon and they are willing to sacrifice other expenses like designer fashion, cars, and meals out at fancy restaurants to acquire the items they find necessary for their daily lives, according to the Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for 2011.

The Labor Department will release the CPI data on Thursday at 8:30 a.m.

For more on unemployment insurance, see U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, «State Unemployment Insurance Benefits,» available at http://workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/unemploy/uifactsheet.asp (last accessed August 2017); Elaine L. Chao, Emily Stover DeRocco, and Cheryl Atkinson, «Coverage.»

-- Harvard Business School — «The average time it took an unemployed person to find a job — full time, part time or otherwise — in December (2008) was 19.7 weeks» — Department of Labor — «Elite professionals feel least adept at getting meaningful introductions to key contacts (and) more adept at maintaining ongoing contact with key network members.»

Maryland gained nearly 13,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Labor Department said Monday.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Career, nonpartisan SEC staff identified at least 26 items of concern related to the substantive content of the proposed rule, and the Labor Department declined to fully resolve all of the concerns.

In a wide - ranging webinar Thursday two executive vice presidents at Envestnet laid out several steps advisors can take to comply with the new Department of Labor fiduciary rule.

Productivity declined at an annual rate of 0.6 percent, even worse than the 0.5 percent drop initially reported, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

Since 1994, he has taught in the Department of Urban and Labor Studies at Queens College and has also taught at City College, Rutgers University, and the New York City campus of Cornell University.

As a practical matter, the Department of Labor will need a significant amount of time - at the very least through the June 9, 2017 date it proposes - to conduct the review the President directed and determine upon the issuance of a notice of proposed rulemaking to revoke or modify the Fiduciary Rule.

Drew Carrington, head of Institutional Defined Contribution at Franklin Templeton Investments along with Michael Doshier, head of retirement marketing, examine the status of The Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act (RESA) and what it might mean for both plan sponsors and participants, and recap the latest court rulings impacting the Department of Labor's Fiduciary Rule.

A report from the Labor Department showed hourly worker compensation accelerated at a 3.4 per cent rate in the first quarter after rising at a 2.4 per cent pace in the October - December period.

The Labor Department is examining whether Wells Fargo & Co pushed participants in low - cost corporate 401 (k) plans to roll their holdings into more expensive individual retirement accounts at the bank, according to a person familiar with the inquiry the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Investors should also recognize that if they do suspect their advisor is in violation of the rules, the onus is on them (the client) to sue the advisor — the Department of Labor does not actively police financial advisors at the individual level.

Wages and salaries increased at their fastest pace in 11 years, according to a report from the Labor Department, adding to inflation jitters.

April 26 The Labor Department is examining whether Wells Fargo & Co pushed participants in low - cost corporate 401 (k) plans to roll their holdings into more expensive individual retirement accounts at the bank, according to a person familiar with the inquiry the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Thomas E. Perez, the former Maryland labor secretary nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, faced pointed questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about whether politics influenced his decisions as the top civil rights attorney labor secretary nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, faced pointed questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about whether politics influenced his decisions as the top civil rights attorney Labor, faced pointed questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about whether politics influenced his decisions as the top civil rights attorney in...

Wells Fargo is the target of a Department of Labor probe on whether the bank has been pushing its customers to take their money out of low - cost corporate 401 (k) plans and roll their holdings into more expensive individual retirement accounts at the bank, The Wall Street Journal reported today.