The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "Department of Labor" ...
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Tracking the Economy and Business
Brooks provides suggested resources for tracking: state and local economic data; municipal finance; pensions and 401(k) plans; companies; and the financial crisis.
Tags: Moody's Analytics; federal reserve; securities; loans; U.S. Department of labor;
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Worker Safety and C.A.R
This tipsheet is a good resource for reporters covering a mining accident for the first time. The author suggests places to start the investigation, like the Mine Safety and Health Administration's website. Johnson also offers some tips to avoid common mistakes when covering mines.
Tags: mining; OSHA; coal; MSHA; Department of Labor
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Farmworker Web Sites
This tipsheet is a long list of websites about labor abuses. It is broken down into three categories: advocacy groups, legal groups, and government.
Tags: farmers; workers; internet; unions; rural legal aid; department of labor
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"Using data to uncover workplace dangers and abuses"
This tipsheet provides tips on how to find data from agencies, and what to do if agencies won't give you data. It also includes information about analyzing data sets. The tipsheet also includes a list of important data sources, with links to their websites and descriptions of the data they might have. Additionally, this tipsheet has resources from the U.S. Department of Labor and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health websites that includes a list of their available statistics and data sets.
Tags: U.S. Department of Labor; Injuries; Illnesses; Fatalities; record keeping; NIOSH; respirators and personal protective equipment; agency; workers' compensation; Centers for Disease Control; CDC; OSHA; licensing agencies; Health departments; environmental health standards; institutional health standards; public health hazards
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Investigating Agriculture: Down on the Farm
Stapleton provides ways to identify federal agencies that oversee farming. She has tips on understanding the regulations and regulators. The tipsheet tells where data can be obtained regarding violations, fines, penalties and suspensions. Stapleton provides agricultural information on pesticides, comparative analysis, politics, and labor. The tipsheet has links to websites that have important agricultural data. Additionally, the tipsheet has a printout from the U.S. Department of Labor which tells what information this agency collects.
Tags: agriculture; farmer; pesticide inspector; U.S. Department of Labor; wage and labor disputes; Migrant and Seasonal Workers Protection Act; Farm labor; contracting; transportation; housing regulations; politics; Social Security Administration; Labor; disability; pesticides; EPA's Worker's Protection Standards; United Farm Workers; National Agriculture Workers Survey; Wage and Labor violation data; Census of Agriculture
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Death on the Job
The safety conditions for working illegal immigrants in America is difficult to determine. Since illegal immigrants do not have any documents you have to dig to find the info you need. Maier points reporters in the right direction for data and information on illegal immigrants who die on the job.
Tags: labor; statistics; OSHA; Department of labor; worker safety; immigrants; illegal immigrants