Office of Labor-Management Standards

Wage theft is when an employer fails to pay workers some or all the wages that they earned.  It disproportionately victimizes low-wage earners, including immigrants who may hesitate to report unscrupulous employers. 

Pre-apprenticeships bridge skill gaps to help participants who are not employment-ready learn both skills they need to qualify for entry into high-quality registered apprenticeship programs and the competencies to successfully complete those apprenticeships.

We sat down to interview Jamaine “G” Gibson and Lisa Vickery about their experiences with Joint Workforce Investment.

We're exploring the many ways unions advance the interest of all workers.

A Labor-Management Partnership Forum, sometimes referred to as a labor-management committee, serves a valuable purpose by allowing management and workers to sit down together and collaborate on important issues. However, like any recurring meeting, over time they can become stale or even feel counterproductive.

At the Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards, we’re committed to advancing labor-management transparency while ensuring workers have a voice in their workplaces.  

The right to organize and the National Labor Relations Board’s enforcement of those rights mean nothing if workers do not know about them. And that’s where the Department of Labor plays a big role.

Last month, we observed Workers Memorial Day, a day when we remember and honor workers who lost their lives as a result of preventable workplace accidents and illnesses. A safe workplace should be ingrained in all of us and something we think about as a matter of course each day.

Learn how higher levels of union membership promise to help reduce – and someday eliminate – gender inequity in our workplaces and deliver greater economic security for workers in our post-pandemic economy.