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New York State United Teachers president Melinda Person in a statement Saturday said the statewide heat standards are a “vital step toward making sure our classrooms are healthy spaces where the focus can be on teaching and learning.”

Brookhaven Irrigation Corp., a Farmingville-based landscaper and installer of sprinkler systems, has been ordered to pay $120,000 in back wages and damages to workers following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation and lawsuit.

In the works for more than a decade, Gateway aims to construct a 2½-mile rail tunnel that will carry Amtrak and NJ Transit trains between Penn Station and the Secaucus station in New Jersey, and also rehabilitate an existing 110-year-old tunnel across the Hudson River that was badly damaged by Su

Suffolk County lawmakers on Tuesday moved a step closer to allowing residents to vote in a November referendum on a proposed 0.125% sales tax increase to fund a sweeping expansion of sewers and high-tech septic systems throughout the county.

The state Department of Labor announced the release of a new worker bill of rights for teen employees, a response to rising rates of labor law violations concerning working minors.

Although entrepreneurship is popular with a lot of young people, Billy Haugland II said not to count out trade careers such as construction, and touted the benefits of a union job. He’s CEO of Haugland Group in Melville, an infrastructure services holding company.