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		<title>OWCP announces final rule updating procedures for Federal Workers’ Compensation Act claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agency issues first major regulation updates since 1999 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor&#8217;s Office of Workers&#8217; Compensation Programs today released a final rule that revises and modernizes the procedures used in administering claims under the Federal Employees&#8217; Compensation Act. The rule, published in the June 28 Federal Register, modernizes those procedures to increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OSHA proposes $287,000 in fines against USPS in Bluefield, W.Va.,for exposing workers to electrical hazards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US Labor Department Press release BLUEFIELD, W.Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor&#8217;s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the U.S. Postal Service for workplace safety violations found at a mail processing facility located at 3010 East Cumberland Road in Bluefield. Proposed penalties total $287,000. &#8220;These citations and sizable fines reflect the Postal Service&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OSHA Increases Enforcement Against Serious Safety and Health Violators</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From October 2009 to September 2010, OSHA issued citations in 164 significant cases where penalties reached $100,000 or more. OSHA found conditions warranting use of its egregious citation policy in 20 of these inspections. In a so-called egregious case, an employer is cited on a per-instance basis under the same standard rather than grouping similar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Postal Worker Gets Two Months For OWCP Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press Release from the United States Attorney Northern District of New York September 10, 2010 Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced today that JAMES IZYK, 49, of Oswego, New York was sentenced in federal court today in Syracuse, N.Y. by U.S. District Court Judge Norman A. Mordue, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Injured Letter Carrier Fired For Failing To Report Income From Rock Band</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illinois Letter Carrier fired for failing to report income earned playing bass guitar for a rock band called BANG! Truhlar sued the Postal Service and NALC Branch. TRUHLAR v. U.S. POSTAL SERVICE KENNETH T. TRUHLAR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, et al., Defendants-Appellees. No. 09-1652. United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Argued December [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USPS Refuses To Sever Ties With Contractor Debarred By DOL For Defrauding Its Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[APWU News USPS Subcontractor Defrauds Drivers of Wages, Benefits Postal Management Refuses to Sever Ties with Company Last month, newspapers reported a settlement [PDF] between the Department of Labor and a USPS subcontractor that exemplifies the problem with postal subcontracting: After three years of defrauding its workers of pay and benefits, the contractor, MT Transportation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOL Will Recover $1.8 Million In Back Wages From USPS Mail Hauling Contractor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The company and its principal officers also will be debarred from receiving future government contracts for a three-year period. BAY SHORE, N.Y. — The U.S. Department of Labor will recover more than $1.8 million in back wages for more than 500 employees of MT Transportation &#38; Logistics Services Inc., a trucking company based in Bay [...]]]></description>
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