NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued a report on Sept. 27, 2023, entitled "County Employment and Wages in Massachusetts - First Quarter 2023": * * * Employment rose in 8 of the 9 largest counties in Massachusetts from March 2022 to March 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are those with annual average employment levels of 75,000 or more in 2022.) R  more

IRVINGTON, New Jersey, Sept. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release: * * * JM Brother Construction LLC failed to protect workers from falls up to 23 feet * * * Federal workplace safety inspectors have cited an Irvington contractor who exposed employees to potentially deadly falls by allowing them to do roofing work atop a two-story home in Bergen County without required fall protection in March 2023. U.S. Departmen  more

TAMPA, Florida, Sept. 27 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2023: * * * Black Employees Were Subjected to a Hostile Work Environment that Included Racial Slurs, Threatening Conduct and Humiliating Working Conditions, Federal Agency Charges * * * Asphalt Paving Systems, Inc. (APS), an asphalt paving company with offices in Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Tennessee, violated federal law by subjecting 12 Black employees w  more

PASADENA, California, Sept. 28 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: Parts of the New York City metropolitan area are sinking and rising at different rates due to factors ranging from land-use practices to long-lost glaciers, scientists have found. While the elevation changes seem small - fractions of inches per year - they can enhance or diminish local flood risk linked to sea level rise. The new study was published Wednesday in Science Advances by a team of   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 23-CV-2045; D.N.J. filed Sept. 18, 2023) involving Robert Del Prete: * * * On September 25, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey entered judgment against Robert Del Prete for engaging in insider trading when he purchased shares of HighCape Capital Acquisition Corp. ("HighCape"), a special purpose acquisition company, in advance the company's announcement that it w  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 23-cv-14255; N.D. Ill. filed Sept. 28, 2023) involving Arline E. Woodbury and Joyce L. Holverson: * * * SEC Charges Illinois and New Jersey Promoters of Multi-Million Dollar CoinDeal Scheme * * * The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Arline Woodbury of Ridgewood, New Jersey and Joyce Holverson of River Forest, Illinois for their involvement in a fraudulent investment sch  more