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According to the proposed settlement, two main categories in this case apply under bankruptcy law.

The owners paid front desk clerks flat weekly rates that resulted in them receiving between $2 and $5.15 per hour.

Wyoming coal miners who have been laid off may be eligible to receive money for retraining.

The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered Halliburton to pay 27 employees in Wyoming $506,000 in back wages as part of an $18.3 million settlement with employees nationwide, an agency spokeswoman said.

A $2.3 million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to the Casper College School of Health Sciences will bring a state-of-the-art simulation lab to the campus. Tammy Frankland is health science dean, and she says the new lab facility will have four mock hospital rooms complete with computerized mannequins...

Thursday evening the U.S. Department of Labor announced that proposed rules to restrict youth from working in agriculture would be withdrawn by the Administration. The new restrictions would have banned teenagers from certain livestock work and eliminated 4-H and FFA training certifications, limiting vocational agriculture training for youth and impairing the inter generational transfer of a

Proposed changes to U.S. agricultural child labor laws are open for comment by the U.S. Department of Labor. Comments are being taken on a reinterpretation of the parental exemption. Michael Hancock with the labor department says the changes identify areas in agriculture where children should not be employed such as operating certain heavy equipment or handling pesticides...