Department of Labor

New Labor Department procedures jeopardize timely reporting on jobs data

In what they say is a need for greater security, the U.S. Department of Labor has ordered the media to remove their computer software and other equipment at the department and to rely on government equipment, software and Internet connections to retrieve the news. The media is concerned that reporters will not gain access to data at the same time, a condition provided under the old procedures. -db From Bloomberg News, April 18, 2012, by

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Freedom of information: Reporter receives records several years after environmental disaster

It took the Department of Labor almost a decade to grant a request for an investigative report on the Martin County Coal Corp. spill in 2000. -db The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press October 7, 2010 By Rosemary Lane The editor of a mining industry newsletter received additional government records Monday regarding the investigation into one of the worst environmental accidents in southeastern U.S. history after seven years of appealing the government’s decisions

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