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A day after President Obama ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to review the Justice Department's guidelines regarding interactions with the press, Free Press and a diverse coalition of civil liberties, digital rights and open government groups weighed in on the agency's treatment of journalists' sources and information.

The New York state Department of Labor is monitoring rides at 49 carnivals and fairs over the Memorial Day weekend.

Project Search has been operating internship programs at Avera McKennan Health Care Systems in Sioux Falls and Aberdeen for three years.

Rebecca Salsbury, 31, has less than one month to go before she becomes a mother.

A long-awaited report on workplace wellness programs, which has still not been publicly released, delivers a blow to the increasingly popular efforts, Reuters has learned, casting doubt on a pillar of the Affordable Care Act and a favorite of the business community.

The Department of Labor recently released a revised model COBRA election notice which includes information about coverage available through the state insurance exchanges.

President Obama has nominated Chai Feldblum, a lesbian attorney and expert on laws affecting LGBT people, the disabled, and health care policy, for a second term on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Human Rights Campaign reports on its blog.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the facility took place May 22 with Summit County Executive Russ Pry and township officials.

Wearing their official referees' jerseys are TAS students Greg Guyer, Morgan Broadbent-Wicks, Lachlan Mack, Harry Maxwell, Campbell Martin, Angus Roxborough-Batt, Nicholas Rogers, Jack Simmons, George Sedgwick, Nick Finney, Tom Lane, Samuel Jackson-Bolton. IT can be one of the toughest gigs in sport but 12 young men from The Armidale School have ... (more)

Grace Episcopal Church of Whitestone, Inc., a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, will pay $192,500 to settle a sex harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , the agency announced today.

The New York State Department of Labor has provided an update on the status of Carriage House employees who were notified of impending layoffs from the Talcott Street facility in Dunkirk in January.

A report from the U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday showed jobless claims dropping for the week.

Sen. Jeff Merkley will give the opening keynote address at the Netroots Nation conference next month in San Jose, Calif., according to an email shared with The Huffington Post that will be sent out later Thursday.

Abercrombie & Fitch was found by a judge to have failed in providing adequate facilities for the disabled, and will be forced to renovate hundreds of stores.

Call the Department of Labor Career Center at 751-6164 and give them the job number of the position that interests you.

The state police say the charges against former Washington County Judge Paul Pozonsky will be prosecuted by the state attorney general, though the spokesman for that office, Dennis Fisher, says he can't confirm or deny the investigation.

The state house passed Bill 21 Wednesday, Reuters reports. The bill had already passed in the Texas senate.

The layoffs of about 100 employees at the state Department of Labor and Industry because of federal aid cuts will start Friday, and House lawmakers are pushing a short-term funding solution to help protect the agency's unemployment compensation services.

This is the message from cyber security experts in the wake of the news that 15 767 e-mails sent to the SAPS from the public were hacked and published online.

Much of the Fourth Estate shrugged when the Obama administration attacked Fox News, but now it's coming for them First they came for Fox News, and they did not speak out - because they were not Fox News.