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Addressing a veteran homelessness crisis According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, on any given night in January 2021, 19,750 veterans experienced homelessness — and 8% of all adults who experienced homelessness were veterans. Though this number is a slight decrease from 2020, it’s still far too high. At the Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service

The misclassification of employees as independent contractors is one of the most serious problems facing affected employees, employers and the U.S. economy. Misclassified workers are denied basic workplace protections including rights to minimum wage and overtime pay, making it harder for them to support themselves and their families. Lower pay caused by misclassification reduces workers’ purchasing power, which undermines the

Last week, I traveled to Wolfsburg, Germany, for the Labor and Employment Ministerial Meeting of the G-7, the premier forum for democratic, industrial member countries to coordinate their economic, social and security policies. There, I 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.Here

Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the American economy added 390,000 jobs in the month of May, and the unemployment rate was 3.6%, unchanged from April and March. Steady, Stable Growth With an average of 408,000 jobs created each month over the last three months, and a sustained low unemployment rate, the historic economic recovery under this administration

National Woman’s Party activists watch Alice Paul sew a star onto the NWP Ratification Flag, representing another state’s ratification of the 19th Amendment. As we reflect on the 102nd anniversary of the Women’s Bureau, we recognize that this past year has been a mixed bag of both unquestionable progress and devastating setbacks. However, as history has demonstrated time and time

I’m an assistant district director at the Wage and Hour Division’s Sacramento, California, District Office. I’m also a leader of the division’s Care Workers Initiative, which is focused on Fair Labor Standards Act enforcement and outreach to educate health care workers about their rights to minimum wage and overtime pay. This initiative is important to me at a personal level,

June is National Great Outdoors Month, a time to celebrate the world around us. Nature offers beauty, respite recreation and, for many people, a workplace. In the occupations shown below, workers may spend most or all of their days outside. And the – Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment in each will grow faster than the 8% average for

As the information technology hub of the Department of Labor, we use innovative technological solutions to support the department’s mission. We aim for innovation with a purpose, and each new technology is developed to improve the experience of America’s workers. Developments we have in the works include an increased use of automation for manual and repetitive tasks, paperless data

All workers have a right to speak out at work against unfair or unsafe practices. And if they face retaliation from their employers, we’re here to protect them by enforcing the law. In fact, the successful enforcement of our laws depends on all workers knowing that when they choose to speak out at work, the Department of Labor and other

OSHA’s On-Site Consultation Program offers free, confidential occupational safety and health services to small- and medium-sized businesses nationwide. On-site consultation services are separate from enforcement and do not result in penalties or citations. We asked Jason Evans, superintendent of Spanish Fort Water System in Spanish Fort, Alabama, to share more about his experience working with OSHA’s On-Site Consultation Program partner,