Emplyment News

For the last 102 years, the Women’s Bureau has been the only federal agency mandated by Congress to represent the interests and needs of wage-earning women. As such, we understandably focus primarily on women, but recognize that true equality requires addressing the gender care gap as much as the gender wage gap. Longstanding gender stereotypes perpetuate the notion that men

For so many of us, our work is a key part of our identity. Although we may have “work lives” and “personal lives,” the two often intertwine, sometimes in unexpected ways. This is something I’ve thought about a lot over the course of my 25-year career but, as a gay man, it’s often top of mind during Pride Month in

Anna Friar had worked more than seven years as a kitchen assistant manager and cook at Willowbrook Assisted Living in Lake City, Florida, when she became seriously ill from COVID-19. Her husband, Billy, also tested positive, and between her own illness and caring for him, Anna was unable to work for more than six weeks.She notified her employer immediately and

Anna Friar had worked more than seven years as a kitchen assistant manager and cook at Willowbrook Assisted Living in Lake City, Florida, when she became seriously ill from COVID-19. Her husband, Billy, also tested positive, and between her own illness and caring for him, Anna was unable to work for more than six weeks.She notified her employer immediately and

June is LGBTQIA+ Pride Month.It was in June 1969 that the Stonewall Uprising occurred, considered by many to have sparked the modern LGBTQIA+ civil-rights movement. Here at the Department of Labor, we rang in Pride Month by doing something that has never been done before in the history of the department — raising the Pride flag at our national office.

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

In May 2020, just months into the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly 1 in 4 American workers had filed for unemployment benefits, ensuring they could meet their families’ basic needs during this unprecedented period of job losses. This is social protection in action. Like other programs in the United States, from free school lunches to Social Security to Medicare, unemployment benefits are

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. She’s here to visit agricultural stakeholders and provide compliance assistance as the division’s enforcement of agricultural labor laws ramps up for the

This month, the economy added 390,000 jobs, with a 3-month moving average of 408,000. Job growth remains steady. The unemployment rate remained unchanged, and the labor force participation rate ticked up to 62.3%. The economy saw job gains in transportation and warehousing (+47,000), leisure and hospitality (+84,000), education and health services (+74,000) and government (+57,000), as well as losses in

Helping people manage their health and wellness is an important job. In careers with this focus, workers support people seeking to maintain or improve self-care through healthy eating, physical activity, stress reduction and other lifestyle habits. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that, from 2020 to 2030, employment in some of these occupations will grow faster than the average for