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Lynn Rhinehart, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez - Jun 13, 2022
Across the country, workers are organizing with their co-workers and engaging in collective action to gain improvements in their jobs and workplaces. What can we learn from these recent organizing efforts? How do they fit in the broader history of worker organizing in the United States? And how can the Department of Labor support worker organizing to advance our mission of improving working conditions for all workers?
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Tracking the New Wave of Worker Organizing with Data: 3 Facts We Learned from a New Collaboration
LGBTQIA+ Pride Month: Yes on Love
Julie Su - Jun 13, 2022
Here at the Department of Labor, we rang in Pride Month by raising the Pride flag at our national office for the first time.
Social Protection Keeps Kids from Child Labor. Here’s Where the World Stands.
Thea Lee - Jun 10, 2022
We know robust social protection can make a difference in the fight to end child labor. When families have access to social supports, like unemployment benefits or in-kind food or cash programs, they are less likely to resort to child labor to weather a crisis such as a lost job, an injury or illness, or even a conflict or displacement.
Getting Hard-Earned Wages into the Hands of Farmworkers
Juan Coria - Jun 08, 2022
To highlight our efforts to make sure farmworkers get the wages they earn, acting Wage and Hour Division Administrator Jessica Looman is on the road this week in the Southeast region, one of America’s most productive agricultural areas.
Good News from May: Job Growth Continues
Joelle Gamble - Jun 07, 2022
This month, the economy added 390,000 jobs, with a 3-month moving average of 408,000. Job growth remains steady.
Working for Wellness: Careers that Promote a Healthy Lifestyle
Stanislava Ilic-Godfrey, Patricia Tate - Jun 06, 2022
Helping people manage their health and wellness is an important job. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that, from 2020 to 2030, employment in some of these occupations will grow faster than the average for all occupations (7.7%). If you’re curious about fast-growing careers related to health and wellness, check out these eight occupations.
May 2022 Jobs Report: Steady, Stable Growth
Secretary Marty Walsh - Jun 03, 2022
In May 2022, the American economy added 390,000 jobs in the month of May, and the unemployment rate was 3.6%, unchanged from April and March.
Strengthening Worker Rights in the Global Economy
Secretary Marty Walsh - Jun 03, 2022
In Germany for the G-7 Labor and Employment Ministerial Meeting, Secretary Walsh met with counterparts from G-7 countries to discuss solutions to advance good jobs, lifelong training, safe workplaces and global supply chains free of labor abuses.
Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
Jessica Looman - Jun 03, 2022
The misclassification of employees as independent contractors is one of the most serious problems facing affected employees, employers and the U.S. economy.