CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Dec. 23, 2024, entitled "Michigan Job Openings and Labor Turnover - October 2024": * * * Michigan had 217,000 job openings in October 2024, compared to 221,000 openings in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Jason Palmer noted that the job openings rate in Michigan wa  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued the following news release: Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sued Rocket Homes to stop them from providing incentives to real estate brokers and agents in exchange for steering homebuyers to Rocket Mortgage, LLC for loans. The CFPB also sued Jason Mitchell, his real estate brokerage firm, JMG Holding Partners LLC, which does business as The Jason Mitchell Group, and the individual real estate brokerage  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release on Dec. 23, 2024: * * * Inspections cited 44 significant and substantial violations, including 1 unwarrantable failure * * * The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that its Mine Safety and Health Administration completed impact inspections in November 2024 at 14 mines in Alabama, California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Pen  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 24 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on Dec. 23, 2024: Attorney General Kwame Raoul led a coalition of 22 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief supporting the federal government's actions to increase the minimum wage for employees of certain federal contractors. In April 2021, President Biden issued an executive order increasing the minimum wage for these workers to $15 and directing the U.S. Department of Labor to implement  more

LANSING, Michigan, Dec. 24 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release on Dec. 23, 2024: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a settlement in a lawsuit involving former Keeler Brass Company sites to address contamination, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), such as trichloroethylene (TCE), and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), at facilities in Western Michigan. The settlement requires the Keeler Brass entities to investigate hazardous  more

LANSING, Michigan, Dec. 24 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release on Dec. 23, 2024: Today, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the arrest and arraignment of Rajinder Singh Minhas, 60, of Rochester, on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges for allegedly mismanaging and neglecting critical maintenance and upgrades at the Lockhart Chemical Company (Lockhart), resulting in the unauthorized oil discharge into the Flint River in 2022. Minhas, who se  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced the winners of the Modernizing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) challenge, which rewarded the use of accessible and interactive innovations to make the NEPA review process easier to navigate. Winning projects are aimed at incentivizing collaborative, real-time reviews to save time and improve the quality of NEPA documents. There were nine re  more