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GAO counts 44,857 child labor violations cited by the Labor Department in fiscal years 2015 to 2025 and makes five recommendations; the department generally disagreed with one
A GAO report dated September 18 and made public September 29 says the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division cited 44,857 child labor violations from fiscal 2015 through 2025, including 6,860 in fiscal 2025, which affected 5,268 children. Division officials told GAO the figures should not be used to describe how common illegal child labor is. GAO makes five recommendations to the department, which generally disagreed with one. They are addressed to the department, not to families or employers.
Also filed underchild-laborwage-and-hour-divisiongaoworkplace-safetyenforcement
Today is the last day to comment on the Labor Department's plan to replace the 2024 rule's 100 percent black lung collateral for self-insured coal companies with seven tiers from 10 to 100 percent, phased in over three years, and five comments had been filed by Monday's count
Written comments on the Labor Department's proposed rewrite of how self-insured coal companies guarantee black lung benefits 'must be received by September 28, 2026', which is today. The proposal (FR Doc. 2026-15325, docket WCPO-2026-0529, RIN 1240-AA16) would replace the 2024 rule's requirement of security equal to 100 percent of estimated liabilities within one year with seven tiers based on financial strength, requiring 10 to 100 percent, phased in over three years. The Department says self-insured operators would still pledge 'over $300 million' more and would save about $7 million to $28 million a year. Its analysis says the change 'reallocates a portion of the bankruptcy-related risk to the taxpayers' while keeping deposits 'appropriately aligned with the associated risk of bankruptcy'. The backdrop: from 2014 to 2016, three self-insured operators went bankrupt with $27.4 million in collateral, and the liabilities that passed to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund were 'eventually estimated to be $865 million'. When the Federal Register checked regulations.gov at 15:55 UTC today, five comments had been filed.
Also filed underblack-lungcoal-miningworkers-compensationpublic-commentfederal-register
A September 18 proclamation extends the $100,000 H-1B payment for another year, to September 21, 2027, citing payments on over 700 petitions and a 92 percent drop in outsourcing-firm registrations, and does not mention that a federal court vacated the guidance used to collect it; USCIS's page still says DHS will comply with that ruling.
Proclamation 11069, signed September 18 and published in the Federal Register on September 23, extended for 12 months, to September 21, 2027, the $100,000 payment required with new H-1B petitions for workers outside the United States. It says the payment has been made for over 700 petitions since September 21, 2025, that the largest IT staffing and outsourcing firms cut their combined registrations from 24,946 to 2,055, and that consular processing requests fell nearly 97 percent. It does not mention that on June 8, 2026 a federal court in Massachusetts vacated the agency guidance used to collect the payment, or that the First Circuit refused to pause that ruling on July 24. USCIS's H-1B page, last reviewed September 21, still says DHS will comply with the court's order. A companion order, Executive Order 14431, tells State, Labor and DHS to weigh a sponsor's layoffs in the previous year, or planned ones, and gives the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division until October 18 to begin reviewing labor condition applications already on file.
Also filed underh-1bimmigrationwhite-housedhsfederal-courtsfederal-register
From November 16, states must hand confidential unemployment records to federal officials on request for oversight and audits. Labor declined commenters' requests to bar immigration-enforcement use, to notify claimants, or to list which data is covered.
A Labor Department final rule published September 16 and effective November 16, 2026 turns an optional disclosure into a required one: every state unemployment agency must give 'confidential UC information' to a federal official who asks for it for unemployment program oversight and audits. The Labor Department, its inspector general and GAO can ask without explanation; other federal officials must ask in writing, state the use and cite their authority. The department says it is fighting fraud, citing $45.6 billion in potentially fraudulent benefits identified by its inspector general. It did not list which data elements are covered, did not define 'Federal official', declined a proposed ban on immigration-enforcement use, and adds no notice to claimants. It says the rule creates no new uses and no national claims database, and that it does not reach eligibility decisions. States that must change their own laws have until September 16, 2027.
Also filed underunemployment-insuranceprivacydata-sharingfederal-register
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