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The mission of the Department of Labor (DOL) is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights. This includes promoting equality of job opportunity, protecting retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, wages, and other economic measurements.

200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210

The DOL provides services such as enforcing labor laws, administering employment and training programs, ensuring workplace safety, and managing unemployment insurance. It also oversees apprenticeship programs, supports employee benefits, promotes worker rights, provides statistical data on labor markets, and works to prevent workplace discrimination through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, although the EEOC is an independent agency.

The DOL oversees regulations related to wages, hours of work, occupational safety and health, unemployment insurance, job training and employment services, worker compensation, labor statistics, employee benefits, child labor, and labor-management relations. It enforces laws like the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for minimum wage and overtime, the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) for workplace safety, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) for retirement and health plan benefits, among others.

The mission of the Department of Labor (DOL) is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights. This includes promoting equality of job opportunity, protecting retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, wages, and other economic measurements.

200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210

$14.7 billion

The DOL provides services such as enforcing labor laws, administering employment and training programs, ensuring workplace safety, and managing unemployment insurance. It also oversees apprenticeship programs, supports employee benefits, promotes worker rights, provides statistical data on labor markets, and works to prevent workplace discrimination through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, although the EEOC is an independent agency.

The DOL oversees regulations related to wages, hours of work, occupational safety and health, unemployment insurance, job training and employment services, worker compensation, labor statistics, employee benefits, child labor, and labor-management relations. It enforces laws like the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for minimum wage and overtime, the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) for workplace safety, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) for retirement and health plan benefits, among others.