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DirectionsSt. Paul — Minnesota employers will benefit from $3.347 million in Dual Training Grants from the Minnesota Office of Higher Education to fund related instruction of dual-training programs. Of the funds awarded, $1.9 million was awarded to employers located in greater Minnesota.
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[ST. PAUL, MN] – Governor Walz today announced that the state is partnering with 59 Minnesota businesses to provide nearly $3.3 million in Dual Training Grants to fund on-the-job training for employees in high-demand industries. Over half of the grants awarded by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education (OHE) were to employers located in greater Minnesota.
It is in the public interest that public buildings and other public works be constructed and maintained by the best means and highest quality of labor reasonably available and that people working on public works be compensated according to the real value of the services they perform. Therefore, it is the policy of this state that wages of laborers, workers and mechanics on projects financed in whole or part by state funds should be comparable to wages paid for similar work in the community as a whole.
Categories: Prevailing wage and contracting agencies, prevailing wage law in Minnesota
The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry's (DLI's) Minnesota OSHA (MNOSHA) Compliance has issued a $10,500 penalty to Amazon in Shakopee, Minnesota, regarding worker safety hazards at a warehouse distribution center.
Categories: Apprenticeship Works newsletter, apprenticship, fall, 2017
The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) has recovered more than $334,000 in back wages for construction workers who were not paid the correct prevailing wage or overtime wages.
Under Minnesota Statutes 176.102, vocational rehabilitation is designed to:
restore the injured worker to a job related to his or her former employment; or
return the injured worker to a job in another work area that produces an economic status as close as possible to what he or she would have enjoyed without a disability.
A rehabilitation consultation is required when requested at any time by any party and it must be provided under the disability status report circumstances.
Categories: Workers' compensation, vocational rehabilitation, retraining, Disability Status Report, qualified rehabilitation consultant (QRC), Report of Work Ability (RWA) form, Rehabilitation Request form and independent vocational evaluation, Rehabilitation Consultation form.