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Atlanta News Releases

National News Releases - 1995 & 1996

1996

• Reich Releases Labor Department's 1996 Trendsetter List [11/27/96]
• Statement By Robert B. Reich On Workers In Poultry Processing Industry [11/26/96]
• Labor Department's Garment Enforcement Report Provides Information For Consumers And Retailers Looking For "No Sweat" Apparel [11/22/96]
• Reich Announces Settlement of "Egregious" Sexual Racial Discrimination Case Against Federal Contractor [11/20/96]
• Sweatshop Task Force Indicates Industry Monitoring Stems Worker Abuses, Labor Law Violations [11/04/96]
• Report Shows Increase of Codes Prohibiting Child Workers in Foreign Garment Shops [10/21/96]
• Labor Department Traces Illegally Made Goods to Sears, Macy's West, Hub and Guess [10/04/96]
• Labor Department Extends Hot Goods Actions to Protect Employees at New Jersey Textile Firm [09/16/96]
• Too Many Garment Assembly Firms Break Labor Laws According to New Report Released By Labor Secretary [08/23/96]
• Workers and Employers Can Get Latest Minimum Wage Information From Labor Department's Internet Web Site [08/20/96]
• Statement of Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich Regarding the Minimum Wage [08/20/96]
• Labor Department Seeks Comments on Proposal to Continue Suspension of Davis-Bacon Helper Regulations [07/31/96]
• "No Sweat" Will Be In Fashion at Labor Department's Fashion Industry Forum on July 16; Every Aspect of Apparel Industry to be Represented or Participate [07/12/96]
• Reich Praises Bonewco Fashions for Paying More than $40,000 in Back Wages and Penalties Owed by Sweatshop that Produced Kathie Lee Line [07/11/96]
• Labor Secretary Reich Congratulates New York Governor, Legislature For Bipartisan Effort To Protect Garment Workers [07/02/96]
• Labor Department's Fashion Industry Forum Set For July 16 [06/28/96]
• Statement Of Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich [06/25/96]
• Reich Applauds Significant Steps By Retailers To Combat Worker Abuses In The U.S. Garment Industry [06/17/96]
• Labor Secretary Robert B Reich, Kathie Lee Gifford Announce Fashion Industry Forum To Raise Public Awareness Of Sweatshops [05/31/96]
• Industry Monitoring Credited For Improved Garment Industry Compliance With Minimum Wage and Overtime Laws [05/09/96]
• Labor Secretary Releases Nationwide Garment Report Revealing Sweatshops Persist In U.S. Apparel Industry [05/03/96]
• Statement Of U.S. Secretary Of Labor Robert B. Reich [05/03/96]
• Employers Find The Family And Medical Leave Act Is Good Business [05/01/96]
• Statement Of Secretary Of Labor Robert B. Reich Regarding The Minimum Wage [04/17/96]
• IBP Ordered To Pay Back Wages To 23,500 Workers [04/02/96]
• Statement Of Secretary Of Labor Robert B. Reich Regarding Minimum Wage [03/26/96]
• Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich Unveils Public Service Announcents To Raise Awareness Of Plight Of U.S. Sweatshop Workers [03/25/96]
• Secretary Reich Announces Signed Agreement Between Jessica McClintock, Inc. And Asian Immigrant Women Advocates [03/21/96]
• Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich Says Garment Worker Lock-In, Other Worker Abuses Found in Enforcement Sweeps in Major Cities [02/16/96]

1995

• Minimum Wage Rates Increased For American Samoa (09/25/95]
• Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich Meets with Farmworkers at Fresno Area Vineyard, Tours Improved Housing Facility [07/11/95]
• Connecticut Employer Ordered To Pay $8 Million in Back Wages [06/20/95]
• Summer Jobs Season Brings Renewed Emphasis On Child Labor Laws [06/14/95]
• Reich Appoints Committee to Review Minimum Wage Rates in American Samoa [05/25/95]
• Computer Services Firm Subject to Debarment, Assessed $117,000 in Fines and Back Wages As A Result of Immigration Law Violations [04/12/95]
• Labor Department Official Testifies Before Senate Committee; Administration Opposes Repeal of Davis-Bacon Act [02/17/95]
• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Final Regulations Published [01/05/95]