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Biden Administration Labor Leadership Updates. On April 21, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee is scheduled to hold a business meeting to consider the nomination of
Ms. Julie Su to serve as Deputy Secretary of Labor.
On April 9, U.S. President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate
Mr. Doug Parker to serve as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA). Mr. Parker currently serves as chief of California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA). House Education & Labor Committee Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-North Carolina) said of the nomination:
Lawmakers say West Coast seafood industry excluded from USDA CARES Act program
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A group of 10 West Coast lawmakers have reached out to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to see why fishermen and processors in their region have largely been left out of a program created through COVID-19 relief measures.
Led by U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon), the Senators and House members sent a letter to Vilsack noting that the fishing industry in California, Oregon, and Washington state account for more than USD 500 million (EUR 417.5 million) in seafood products produced in the country, roughly about 13 percent of all domestic seafood goods.
New Zealand Law Granting Paid Leave for Miscarriage Sparks Organizing in US
Mo Major holds his 2 1/2-week-old son Maverick on March 26, 2020, in Mount Vernon, New York.
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When New Zealand’s Parliament extended three days of paid leave to workers and their partners following a miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or stillbirth, as well as to those whose plans to welcome a child through adoption or surrogacy become derailed, it cast a spotlight on how countries throughout the world treat the aftermath of pregnancy loss.
A Better Balance, a U.S. organization working to improve economic security and expand benefits for pregnant and parenting workers, is one of many groups that has weighed in on New Zealand’s expanded leave. “New Zealand’s policy shift opened up an opportunity for conversations about what workers need to care for themselves and their families,” Molly Weston Williamson, the group’s director of Paid Leave and Future of Work, told