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12 unusual facts about United States Department of Labor


Arthur B. Woodford

Woodford worked as a special agent for the U.S. Department of Labor in 1885.

Calvert Magruder

During the New Deal administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Magruder served as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board from 1934 to 1935 and as General Counsel of the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor from 1938 to 1939.

Charles Ballram

Ballam won his seat and once again was given the portfolio the Department of Labour.

Chinese Staff and Workers' Association

A United States Department of Labor study in 1997 found that 90 percent of the 3,000 garment manufacturing shops in New York City's Chinatown were sweatshops.

Dunlop v. Bachowski

Dunlop v. Bachowski, 421 U.S. 560 (1975) is a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 gives federal courts jurisdiction to review decisions of the United States Department of Labor to proceed (or not) with prosecutions under the Act.

Economist

According to the United States Department of Labor, there were around 15,000 non-academic economists in the United States in 2008, with a median salary of roughly $83,000, and with the top ten percent earning more than $147,040 annually.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

As a gesture of appreciation for her husband's loyalty and service to the Republican party, President Calvin Coolidge appointed Johnson as the Commissioner of Conciliation in the Department of Labor.

Korean Central Presbyterian Church

The Korean Senior Center of KCPC received grant totaling $20,000 in 2006 from the SkillSource Group Inc., the nonprofit entity of the Northern Virginia Workforce Investment Board which was awarded grant by the United States Department of Labor.

Nonfarm payrolls

It is an influential statistic and economic indicator released monthly by the United States Department of Labor as part of a comprehensive report on the state of the labor market.

Revised Philadelphia Plan

Department of Labor Assistant Secretary for Wage and Labor Standards Arthur Fletcher implemented the Revised Philadelphia Plan in 1969, based on an earlier plan developed in 1967 by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance and the Philadelphia Federal Executive Board.

United States Department of Labor

President William Howard Taft signed the March 4, 1913 (the last day of his presidency), bill establishing the Department of Labor as a Cabinet-level Department.

Wage insurance

The basic concept became the United States Department of Labor's Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance for Older Workers (ATAA).


Bradford P. Campbell

Bradford P. Campbell was the Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security of the United States Department of Labor (DOL), the official in charge of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA).

Brenda Brenon

However, she returned to her job in September after the United States Department of Labor ordered the network to rehire her with back pay under the Family Leave Act, which provides job protection during maternity.

Effective unemployment rate

The unemployment rate announced by United States Department of Labor does not include those too discouraged to look for work any longer or those part-time workers that are working fewer hours than they would like.

Foreign relations of Swaziland

The United States assists Swaziland with a number of HIV/AIDS initiatives and programs implemented through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Peace Corps, African Development Foundation, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Defense.

Glass ceiling

In 1991 the US Labor Department's chief, Lynn Morley Martin, reported the results of a research project called "The Glass Ceiling Initiative" formed to investigate the low numbers of women and minorities in executive positions.

Kenneth S. Apfel

A graduate of University of Massachusetts Amherst, Northeastern University, and University of Texas at Austin, Apfel started his federal career as a Presidential Management Intern at the United States Department of Labor.

Nuclear power whistleblowers

The U.S. Department of Labor ruled that his submissions to SAFETEAM were protected and his dismissal was invalid, a finding upheld by Labor Secretary Lynn Martin.

Phyllis Borzi

Phyllis C. Borzi is the Obama administration's Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security of the United States Department of Labor, the official in charge of the Employee Benefits Security Administration.

Women of the Moose

In 1926, Katherine Smith, the Director of Public Employment in the Department of Labor under Davis, was appointed the first "Grand Chancellor" of the Women of the Moose.