Department of Labor June 19, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Office of Trade and Labor Affairs (OTLA) requests public comments and specific information related to Submission 2011- 03, which was accepted for review pursuant to Article 16.4.3 of the Dominican RepublicCentral AmericaUnited States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). The submission alleges that the Government of the Dominican Republic (GODR) failed to fulfill its obligations under Chapter 16 of the CAFTA-DR (the Labor Chapter) through actions or lack thereof that denied workers in the sugar sector their rights under the laws of the Dominican Republic relating to freedom of association, the right to organize, child labor, forced labor, the right to bargain collectively, and acceptable conditions of work. The submission is posted on the ILAB Web site at https://www.dol.gov/ilab/programs/otla/DRSubmission2011.pdf.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is extending the comment period for its notice to gather information and ideas about establishing definitions and measures to determine whether OSHA-approved State Plans for occupational safety and health (State Plans) are at least as effective as the Federal OSHA program as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.

The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) sponsored information collection request (ICR) revision titled, ``Notice of Termination, Suspension, Reduction, or Increase in Benefit Payments,'' to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval for use in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995.