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The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet
United States Cabinet

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 department of the United States
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 government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics. Many U.S. state
U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
s also have such departments. The department is headed by the United States Secretary of Labor
United States Secretary of Labor

The United States Secretary of Labor is the head of the United States Department of Labor who exercises control over the department and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies....
. Hilda Solis
Hilda Solis

Hilda L. Solis is the current United States Secretary of Labor. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009, representing the California's 31st congressional district and California's 32nd congressional district of California that include East Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley....
 is the current secretary.

The department is housed in the Frances Perkins Building, which gained its name in 1980 when President Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize....
 renamed the facility in honor of Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins

Frances Coralie Perkins was the United States Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the List of female United States Cabinet Secretaries appointed to the US Cabinet....
, the Secretary of Labor from 1933–1945 and the first female cabinet secretary in U.S.






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The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet
United States Cabinet

The United States Cabinet is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States, and its existence dates back to the first United States of America President of the United States, George Washington, who appointed a Cabinet of four people to advise and assist him in his dutie...
 department of the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics. Many U.S. state
U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
s also have such departments. The department is headed by the United States Secretary of Labor
United States Secretary of Labor

The United States Secretary of Labor is the head of the United States Department of Labor who exercises control over the department and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies....
. Hilda Solis
Hilda Solis

Hilda L. Solis is the current United States Secretary of Labor. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009, representing the California's 31st congressional district and California's 32nd congressional district of California that include East Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley....
 is the current secretary.

The department is housed in the Frances Perkins Building, which gained its name in 1980 when President Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize....
 renamed the facility in honor of Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins

Frances Coralie Perkins was the United States Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the List of female United States Cabinet Secretaries appointed to the US Cabinet....
, the Secretary of Labor from 1933–1945 and the first female cabinet secretary in U.S. history.

History

The U.S. Congress first established a Bureau of Labor in 1888 under the Department of the Interior
United States Department of the Interior

The United States Department of the Interior , also called the Interior Department, is the United States federal executive departments of the Federal government of the United States responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans in the United States, A...
. Later, the Bureau of Labor became an independent Department of Labor but lacked executive rank. It became a bureau again within the Department of Commerce and Labor
United States Department of Commerce and Labor

The United States Department of Commerce and Labor was a short-lived United States Cabinet department of the United States government of the United States, which was concerned with business, industry, and labour ....
, which was established February 15, 1903. President
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
 William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, the tenth Chief Justice of the United States, a leader of the progressive conservative wing of the History of the United States Republican Party in the early 20th century, a pioneer in international arbitration and staunch advocate of world pe...
 signed the March 4, 1913 bill establishing the Department of Labor as a Cabinet-level Department.

President
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
 Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to consider the idea of reuniting Commerce and Labor. He argued that the two departments had similar goals and that they would have more efficient channels of communication in a single department. However, Congress never acted on it.

In the 1970s, following the Civil Rights Movement
Civil rights movement

The Civil Rights Movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring approximately between 1960 to 1980. It was accompanied by much civil unrest and popular rebellion....
, the Labor Department under Secretary George P. Shultz
George P. Shultz

George Pratt Shultz is an American economist, statesman, and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the United States Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989....
 was instrumental in requiring racial quotas
Racial quotas

Racial quotas in employment and education are numerical requirements for hiring, promoting, admitting and/or graduating members of a particular Race while discriminating other racial groups....
 in unions.

Operating units


  • Administrative Review Board
    Administrative Review Board (Labor)

    In April 1996, the Secretary of Labor established the Administrative Review Board to succeed the former Board of Service Contract Appeals, Wage Appeals Board, and Office of Administrative Appeals....
     (ARB)
  • Benefits Review Board
    Benefits Review Board

    The Department of Labor's Benefits Review Board was created in 1972, by the United States Congress, to review and issue decisions on appeals of workers? compensation claims arising under the Longshore and Harbor Workers? Compensation Act and the Black Lung Benefits amendments to the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969....
     (BRB)
  • Bureau of International Labor Affairs
    Bureau of International Labor Affairs

    The Bureau of International Labor Affairs is an operating unit of the United States Department of Labor which manages the Department's international responsibilities....
     (ILAB)
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
    Bureau of Labor Statistics

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics , a unit of the United States Department of Labor, is the principal fact-finding agency for the government of the United States in the broad field of labor economics ....
     (BLS)
  • Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI)
  • Employees' Compensation Appeals Board
    Employees' Compensation Appeals Board

    The Employees' Compensation Appeals Board was created in 1946 by statute to hear appeals taken from determinations and awards under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act with respect to claims of federal employees injured in the course of their employment....
     (ECAB)
  • Employment Standards Administration
    Employment Standards Administration

    The Employment Standards Administration , the largest agency within the U.S. Department of Labor, enforces and administers laws governing legally-mandated wages and working conditions, including child labor, minimum wages, overtime and family and medical leave; equal employment opportunity in businesses with federal contracts and subcontract...
     (ESA)
    • Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)
    • The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)
    • Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP)
    • Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
  • Employment and Training Administration
    Employment and Training Administration

    The mission of the Employment and Training Administration , as part of the U.S. Department of Labor, is to contribute to the more efficient and effective functioning of the U.S....
     (ETA)
  • Mine Safety and Health Administration
    Mine Safety and Health Administration

    The Mine Safety and Health Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Labor which administers the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 to enforce compliance with mandatory safety and health standards as a means to eliminate fatal accidents, to reduce the frequency and severity of nonfatal accide...
     (MSHA)
  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration

    The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Labor. It was created by Congress of the United States under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, signed by President Richard M....
     (OSHA)
  • Employee Benefits Security Administration
    Employee Benefits Security Administration

    The Employee Benefits Security Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Labor responsible for administering the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ....
     (EBSA)
  • Veterans' Employment and Training Service
    Veterans' Employment and Training Service

    The United States Office of the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training was established by Secretary's Order No. 5-81 in December 1981....
     (VETS)
  • Women's Bureau
    United States Women's Bureau

    The United States Women's Bureau is an agency of the United States government within the United States Department of Labor. The Women?s Bureau was established by Congress in 1920 and continues its responsibility to carry out Public Law 66-259; 29 U.S.C....
     (WB)
  • Office of Inspector General (OIG)


Other organizational units within the Department:

  • Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults With Disabilities (PTFEAD)
  • Office of Administrative Law Judges (OALJ)
  • Office of Congressional & Intergovernmental Affairs (OCIA)
  • Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management (OASAM)
  • Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy (OASP)
  • Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO)
  • Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO)
  • Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
    Odep
    * Office of Small business
    Small business

    A small business is a business that is independently owned and operated, with a small number of employees and relatively low volume of sales. The legal definition of "small" often varies by country and industry, but is generally under 100 employees in the United States and under 50 employees in the European Union....
     Programs (OSBP)
  • Office of the Solicitor (SOL)
  • Office of the Secretary (OSEC)
  • Office of the 21st Century Workforce (21CW)


Related legislation

  • 1931 - Davis-Bacon Act
    Davis-Bacon Act

    The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 is a United States federal law which established the requirement for paying prevailing wages on public works projects....
  • 1938 - Fair Labor Standards Act
    Fair Labor Standards Act

    The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 , also called the Wages and Hours Bill, is United States federal law that applies to employees engaged in interstate commerce or employed by an enterprise engaged in commerce or...
  • 1946 - Employment Act
    Employment Act

    The Employment Act, Act of Feb. 20, 1946, ch. 33, section 2, 60 Stat. 23, codified as , is a United States federal law. Its main purpose was to lay the responsibility of economic stability onto the federal government....
     PL 79-304
  • 1949 - Fair Labor Standards Amendment PL 81-393
  • 1953 - Small Business Act PL 83-163
  • 1954 - Internal Revenue Code
    Internal Revenue Code

    The Internal Revenue Code is the main body of domestic statutory law tax law of the United States organized topically, including laws covering the income tax , payroll taxes, Gift tax, Inheritance tax and statutory excise taxes....
     PL 83-591
  • 1955 - Fair Labor Standards Amendment PL 84-381
  • 1958 - Small Business Administration extension PL 85-536
  • 1961 - Fair Labor Standards Amendment PL 87-30
  • 1961 - Area Redevelopment Act PL 87-27
  • 1962 - Manpower Development and Training Act
    Manpower Development and Training Act

    The Manpower Developent and Training Act of 1962 endeavored to train and retrain thousands of workers unemployed because of automation and technological change....
     PL 87-415
  • 1962 - Public Welfare Amendments PL 87-543
  • 1963 - Amendments to National Defense Education Act PL 88-210
  • 1964 - Economic Opportunity Act PL 88-452
  • 1965 - Vocational Rehabilitation Act amended PL 89-333
  • 1966 - Fair Labor Standards Amendment PL 89-601
  • 1967 - Executive Order 11246
    Executive Order 11246

    Executive Order 11246, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 24, 1965 required Equal Employment Opportunity. The Order "prohibits federal contractors and federally assisted construction contractors and subcontractors, who do over $10,000 in Government business in one year from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis...
  • 1973 - Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
    Comprehensive Employment and Training Act

    The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1973 to train workers and provide them with jobs in the public service....
     PL 93-203
  • 1973 - Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act PL 93-112
  • 1974 - Fair Labor Standards Amendment PL 93-259
  • 1974 - Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act
    Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act

    The Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 is an Act of Congress in reference to Vietnam era veterans, disabled veterans, and any veterans who served active duty time during a war event that qualifies for a campaign badge....
     PL 92-540
  • 1975 - Revenue Adjustment Act (Earned Income Tax Credit
    Earned income tax credit

    The United States federal Earned Income Tax Credit is a refundable tax credit. For tax year 2008, a claimant with one qualifying child can receive a maximum credit of $2,917....
    ) PL 94-12, 164
  • 1976 - Overhaul of vocational education
    Vocational education

    Vocational education or Vocational Education and Training , also called Career and Technical Education , prepares learners for jobs that are based in manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academics and totally related to a specific trade, employment or vocation, hence the term, in which the learner participates....
     programs PL 94-482
  • 1976 - Social Security Act Amendments (Aid to Day Care Centers) PL 94-401
  • 1977 - Fair Labor Standards Amendment PL 95-151
  • 1978 - Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act PL 95-523
  • 1981 - Budget Reconciliation Act PL 97-35
  • 1982 - Job Training Partnership Act PL 97-300
  • 1986 - Migrant And Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act PL 99-603
  • 1988 - Family Support Act
    Family Support Act

    The Family Support Act was a federal law created by the United States government in 1988. An Associated Press article said that the law "required teen mothers who receive public assistance to remain in high school and, in some cases, to live with their parents." ...
     PL 100-485
  • 1989 - Fair Labor Standards Amendment PL 101-157
  • 1990 - Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act PL 101-508
  • 1993 - Omnibus Budget Reconciliation and Bankruptcy Act PL 103-66
  • 1996 - Small Business Job Protection Act PL 104-188
  • 1996 - Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
    Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act

    The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 is a United States federal law considered to be a fundamental shift in both the method and goal of federal cash assistance to the poor....
     PL 104-193
  • 1996 - Veterans Employment Opportunities Act PL 105-339
  • 1998 - Workforce Investment Act


See also

  • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
    Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is a federal agency charged with ending employment discrimination. The EEOC investigates discrimination complaints based on an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability and retaliation for reporting and/or opposing a discriminatory practice....
  • National Labor Relations Board
    National Labor Relations Board

    The National Labor Relations Board is an Independent agencies of the United States government charged with conducting elections for trade union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices....
  • Ticket to Work
    Ticket to Work

    Ticket to Work is a United States employment program created by the 1999 Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act. Initial program regulations were published in December 2001....


External links

  • : A Labor Certification tracker that lets users share and discuss the details of their labor applications, reducing guesswork and making it easier to estimate processing times.
  • A list of frequently used links for employment-based immigrants.
  • from The Federal Register