Bureau of International Labor Affairs

A new partnership with Brazil will help strengthen workers' rights, promote decent work and end labor exploitation.

As we approach the UN’s 2025 deadline to eradicate child labor in all its forms, we urge all governments to protect children and adults from exploitation.

Labor Rights Week is about educating workers throughout the U.S. on their rights to a safe and healthful workplace and the full payment of wages – no matter where they’re from.

During Labor Rights Week 2023, Aug. 28-Sept. 1, help us get the word out that ALL workers in the United States have rights.

As we recognize World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, learn about emerging hotspots for forced labor and what we’re doing to combat it.

As we observe World Day Against Child Labor on June 12, learn more about how we can all work together to end child labor at home and abroad.

Here are some of the ways the Department of Labor supports working families.

We honor the memory of the workers who lost their lives by working toward a more fair, transparent and sustainable garment industry.

Through a new pilot program, the Department of Labor and government of Mexico will collaborate to help return back wages owed to migrant workers who were employed in the U.S.

We are committed to ensuring migrant workers' labor rights are protected.