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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.

For more than two years, a group of health experts, economists and lawyers in the U.S. government has worked to address a growing public health crisis: people dying on the job from extreme heat.

MADISON, Wis. — A judge overseeing a challenge brought by unions trying to undo Wisconsin's law that bans nearly all collective bargaining for public workers appears to have signed a 2011 petition to recall then-Gov. Scott Walker from office because of anger over that law.

President of the Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO John R. Durso, and Ryan Stanton, Executive Director of the Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO said, “We thank Governor Hochul for signing the Suffolk County Water Quality Restoration Act (SCWQRA).

Long Islanders' overwhelming approval of school budgets Tuesday marked one of the most unified and least controversial votes here in memory, sending a message that Islanders value their schools and are willing to support them with their wallets, said education experts and officials.