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The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics. Many U.S. states also have such departments. The department is headed by the United States Secretary of Labor. Hilda Solis is the current secretary.
The department is housed in the Frances Perkins Building, which gained its name in 1980 when President Jimmy Carter renamed the facility in honor of Frances Perkins, 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. 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, which was established February 15, 1903. President William Howard Taft signed the March 4, 1913 bill establishing the Department of Labor as a Cabinet-level Department.
President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to consider the idea of reuniting Commerce and Labor.Fact: date=December 2007 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, the Labor Department under Secretary George P. Shultz was instrumental in promoting racial diversity in unions.
Operating units
- Administrative Review Board (ARB)
- Benefits Review Board (BRB)
- Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI)
- Employees' Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB)
- Employment Standards Administration (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 (ETA)
- Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)
- Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS)
- Women's Bureau (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)
