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The Importance of Health Care Workers, As Told by One of Their Daughters

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• By: Patricia Nario Canites • May 31, 2022
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Patricia Nario Canites, an assistant district director at the Wage and Hour Division’s Sacramento District Office, shares about her work with the Care Workers Initiative.
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By the Numbers: How We’re Advancing Equity at the Department of Labor

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• By: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez • April 14, 2022
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At the U.S. Department of Labor, we’ve been taking a whole-of-department approach to advancing equity for underserved communities since President Biden issued the executive order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities on his first day in office.
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Essential Workers an Essential Focus

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Wage and Hour Issues
• By: Jessica Looman • June 3, 2021
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Providing essential protections to essential workers is at the heart of our mission. Learn more about our renewed efforts to protect workers on the front lines.
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