ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 23 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southeast Regional Information Office issued the following report on August 22, 2023, entitled "South Carolina Job Openings and Labor Turnover - June 2023": * * * South Carolina had 175,000 job openings in June 2023, compared to 177,000 openings in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Victoria G. Lee noted that the job openings rate in South  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release on Aug. 22, 2023: * * * Wage and Hour Division assesses $61K in penalties to address child labor violations * * * As part of its continuing effort to reverse a significant national increase in child labor violations by employers, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced that a series of investigations of two Sonic Drive-In franchisees in South Carolina found 91 child  more

HOPKINS, South Carolina, Aug. 22 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 204,522 visitors to Congaree National Park in 2022 spent approximately $11,831,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported 138 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of over $14,220,000. "Since 1916, the National Park Service has been entrusted with the care of our n  more