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US Department of Labor

By KGPATTON
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics Begins Collecting Employment Data

    Bureau of Labor Statistics Begins Collecting Employment Data

    There was The Bureau of Labor Statistics before there was a Labor Department.
  • President Taft Creates Labor Department

    President Taft Creates Labor Department

    President William Howard Taft signs the Organic Act creating the U.S. Department of Labor. In his last hour of office.
  • Establishing Benefits for Injured and Sick Workers

    Establishing Benefits for Injured and Sick Workers

    The Federal Compensation Act provides benefits to workers who get hurt or contract illnesses in the workplace

  • International Labor Comes to the Capital

    the International Labour Organization holds its first meeting in Washington, D.C.

  • Women Receive a Voice in the Workplace Through the Women's Bureau

    The women's Bureau ensures effective employment of women and it promtoes welfare of wage-earnign women.

  • Women Receive a Voice in the Workplace Through the Women's Bureau

    the Women’s Bureau is made to develop standards and polices ensuring the effective employment of women and promoting the welfare of wage-earning women.

  • Railway Labor Act Creates National Mediation Board

    Congress approves The Railway Labor Act to mend the tension between rail laborers and management.

  • Davis–Bacon Act

    This act states the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public works projects.

  • The Fair Labor Standards Act

    The FLSA Established a maximum 44-hour seven-day workweek and it also established a national minimum wage, guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs.

  • Employment Act of 1946

    Its main purpose was to lay the responsibility of economic stability of inflation and unemployment onto the federal government.
  • Small Business Administration

    Small Business Administration

    Its function was and is to "aid, counsel, assist and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small business concerns".

  • Internal Revenue Code

    the IRC was greatly reorganized by the 83rd United States Congress and expanded by Chapter 736

  • Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974

    This law requires that employers with Federal contracts or subcontracts of $25,000 or more provide equal opportunity and affirmative action for Vietnam era veterans, special disabled veterans, and veterans who served on active duty during a war or in a campaign.

  • Job Training Partnership Act of 1982

    This law was made to establish federal assistance programs to prepare youth and unskilled adults for entry into the labor force.

  • Family Support Act

    this program was made to emphasize work, child support and family benefits, as well as on withholding the wages of absentee parents.

  • Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

    The FMLA was meant to balance the demands of the workplace with the needs of families.

  • Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996

    It was made to provide tax relief for small businesses, to protect jobs, to create opportunities,to increase the take home pay of workers.

  • Workforce Investment Act of 1998

    The law was made to replace the Job Training Partnership Act and other Federal job training law.