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thank you..
this is this is a good information
great idea..
Blogs will definitely help the people understand and see updates on what dol does. I hope this is updated often unlike other gov blogs which is only good at the beginning.
One question: When will the new minimum wage/overtime protections for in-home care workers be implemented?
Lisa, thank you for your interest in our work. The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register on December 27, and is open for public comment until February 27. You can read and comment on it here: http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=WHD-2011-0003-0001. The department will carefully review every comment before proceeding to the next step: the drafting and publication of a final rule. There are many factors involved, including how many comments are submitted, so it’s difficult to name an exact date, but we hope to move forward as quickly as we can while ensuring that we allow enough time to review and consider the feedback we receive.
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Recently the unemployment rate decreased. Did the methodology to calculate the unemployment rate change and therefore was responsible for the lower percentage number?
Why has DOL not conducted an investigation of my former employer and there equipment supplier who lied to the U.S federal government in there investigation?
It was a DOL/OSHA investigator who supplied me with inside information that showed that they suspected they were lying in there investigation.
I used that information to prove on fourteen diffrent dates and timelined call with recieved faxes that clearly and indisputibly show they lied to the U.S Federal government in there investigation.
Between the fourteen calls and faxes with the other evidence this is a slam dunk case of “Title 18,United States Code,Section 1001″ lying to U.S fedreal investigators .
What would have happened if we lied to U.S federal investigators during an active investigation Ms Solis?
This is just part of what that OSHA investigator said when he tipped me off with that inside information
” I’m not suppose to show you this if you know what i mean,because your not suppose to write it down if you know what i mean”
-need i say more Ms Solis?
Print on paper does absolutely nothing to prevent tragedies. They happen despite the best of intentions. However, what is truly tragic, are the perceptions: 1) that regulation is law–it is not, because it is not created by the legislative process; 2) that regulation actually does anything for the person or group of persons described as beneficiaries of regulation. In actual fact, ALL regulation does is create an excuse for an (unconstitutional) administrative agency to fine a business for something deemed a violation. That’s the big con, folks. If, for instance, a miner is injured, or a person suffers injury while working and a bully organization like OSHA or MSHA steps in, the only thing that the agency does is collect money from the employer. That’s it. The person and his/her family is still responsible for pursuing damages in court. In otherwords, agencies create rules simply to be able to get what essentially are damages to perpetuate themselves without having to prevail in a negligence action against the employer in court. That’s ridiculous.
It really is time for people, and particularly for business owners, to band together and adopt the mantra, “I will not comply”. Administrators cannot wield lawmaking authority AT ALL, according to either the U.S. Consitution or the constitutions of the states. Legislative authority is vested only in legislatures. OSHA possesses no legitimate authority to compel anyone to do anything.
The only reason that businesses have bowed to regulator-bullies during the past 100 years is the existence of a system built piece-by-piece (principally by allowing Supreme Court justices to amend the Constitution by substituting interpretations for the words in the Constitution), in which We the People no longer earn money of real, intrinsic value as payment for our exertions. Instead, we earn dollars, which now exist primarily in binary form. We’re even contemplating a transformation into a cashless society, which is the final step to complete the separation of individuals from control of their financial destinies, and subjecting our finances to supervisory oversight and social engineering. Therefore, although it is extremely uncomfortable to even contemplate, we all MUST transform our earnings into things of real value and possess them. We need to take steps to be able to disengage from state-administered utilities and to grow food for our families. We must exercise our Natural Right to keep and bear arms (the Bill of Rights is a list of promises that no authority of government–legislative (Congress), executive (President), or Judicial (the Courts)–may ever be used to infringe upon or interfere with ANY natural right). We must form agreements with friends and neighbors, expand those agreements to other neighborhoods, and to our coworkers and employers, etc. to resist and oppose regulator activity. Finally, we must reconnect with the thinking of the Founding Fathers. Freedom is worth the loss of all worldly possessions.
No agency rule ever is submitted to or passed by Congress or a state legislature and therefore possesses NO authority. Only an act passed by a legislature and enacted by the signature of the President or a governor is law. I WILL NOT COMPLY.
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I must thank you for the initiatives you have made in writing this article.
I am expecting the similar best efforts from you in the future as well
I am pretty much pleased with your good work. It’s reassuring that there is someone who is willing to listen, talk and help explain the often complicated issues at hand. regards.
Can I just say what a relief to find someone who actually knows what theyre talking about on the internet. You definitely know how to bring an issue to light and make it important.
More people need to read this and understand this side of the story.
I use to be a statistician for Dept of Agriculture and I have been doing some digging. These numbers don’t compute. Where exactly do you get these numbers. I realize you have a Democratic appointee at DOL but my job as a statiistician for Ag was to tell the truth. I would really like to know exactly how you came up with these numbers. When I do my research it does not jive with this pretty picture you are painting on this website.
Why are the Latino’s getting special attention. Are we not all Americans? Hilda are you not working for everyone?
I think the dept of labor needs to hire more staff , because i have a labor claim for over 10,000.00 dollars by my x employer and the labor dept told me they had to many claims to handle mine .. guess since iam small time money they dont want to handle it, but they went after my current employer because that claim was over 100 k
This is very good infomation that a lot of companies need to look into.
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