| Equity Action Plan underscores commitment to all of America’s workers
The department joined more than 90 federal agencies in releasing our first-ever Equity Action Plan, which underscores our commitment to improving the well-being of underserved, marginalized and excluded communities.
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| Expanding apprenticeships and economic opportunity
Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh visited North Carolina this week to highlight the value of job training and worker organizing. While there, he visited a training facility and signed a memorandum of understanding with Austrian Minister for Digital and Economic Affairs Dr. Margarete Schramböck to expand Registered Apprenticeships and promote job creation in both countries. |
| OSHA program will protect workers from heat hazards
Secretary Walsh and Vice President Kamala Harris announced the first-ever National Emphasis Program to protect workers from indoor and outdoor heat hazards this week. Secretary Walsh later toured a treatment facility operated by an Alabama water utility company, to highlight collaborative efforts to protect workers from heat-related hazards.
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| Helping unemployed workers find good jobs
We’ve awarded more than $189 million to help workforce agencies in 49 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia strengthen their unemployment insurance programs and support their efforts to help job seekers. |
| Better governance with accountability and transparency
The Biden-Harris Management Agenda is a blueprint for American governance that emphasizes empowering federal workers, improving federal service and leveraging government business to help build our country back better. Learn how the agenda is working to deliver a government for all Americans by being accountable and transparent. |
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Machine safety
OSHA cited a manufacturer after a worker was seriously injured by a puller machine. OSHA has cited the company for eight similar violations in the last decade. |
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$2.50/hour
Three California warehouses must pay nearly $2 million in back wages to 108 workers after we found they were paying workers as little as $2.50 per hour. |
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Supporting H-2B workers
Temporary workers under the H-2B Visa Program support industries that need extra help during peak seasons, and they are uniquely vulnerable to workplace abuses. |
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