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    The United States secretary of labor is a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and as the head of the United States Department of Labor, controls...
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    and labor, uniting this department with the United States Department of Labor, which is now headed by a separate United States secretary of labor. Secretary...
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    The United States deputy secretary of labor is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Labor. In the United States federal...
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    by the secretary of labor, who reports directly to the president of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet. The purpose of the Department...
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    The United States Department of Commerce and Labor was a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with fostering...
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    Nominations to the office of Secretary of HHS are referred to the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the United States Senate Committee on Finance...
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  • Thumbnail for Labor unions in the United States
    Labor unions represent United States workers in many industries recognized under US labor law since the 1935 enactment of the National Labor Relations...
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    Julie Su (category United States Deputy Secretaries of Labor)
    official who has served as acting United States Secretary of Labor since 2023 and the 37th United States Deputy Secretary of Labor since 2021. Before assuming...
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    The United States secretary of transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation. The secretary serves as the principal advisor...
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  • Thumbnail for Labor history of the United States
    The nature and power of organized labor in the United States is the outcome of historical tensions among counter-acting forces involving workplace rights...
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    Eugene Scalia (category United States Secretaries of Labor)
    28th United States Secretary of Labor during the final 16 months of the Trump administration from 2019 to 2021. Scalia previously served as the United States...
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  • administrative arms of the president of the United States. There are currently 15 executive departments. Each department is headed by a secretary whose title...
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  • Thumbnail for United States Deputy Secretary of State
    The deputy secretary of state of the United States is the principal deputy to the secretary of state. As of February 2024, the position is held by Kurt...
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  • Thumbnail for Farmer–Labor Party
    The first modern Farmer–Labor Party in the United States emerged in Minnesota in 1918. The American entry into World War I caused agricultural prices and...
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    Patrick Pizzella (category United States Deputy Secretaries of Labor)
    as the 36th United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from April 17, 2018 to January 20, 2021. He was formerly a member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority...
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    United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the US. Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality...
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    Elaine Chao (redirect from Secretary Chao)
    who served as United States secretary of labor in the administration of George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009 and as United States Secretary of Transportation...
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    The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half"...
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    Marty Walsh (category United States Secretaries of Labor)
    served as the mayor of Boston from 2014 to 2021 and as the 29th United States Secretary of Labor from 2021 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party...
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  • Thumbnail for Labor Day
    Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday of September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and...
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    Frances Perkins (category United States Secretaries of Labor)
    who served as the fourth United States Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position. A member of the Democratic Party, Perkins...
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    The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State...
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    William Usery Jr. (category United States Secretaries of Labor)
    December 10, 2016) was an American labor union activist and government appointee who served as United States secretary of labor in the Ford administration. Although...
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    Maurice J. Tobin (category United States Secretaries of Labor)
    serving as 46th Mayor of Boston, the 56th Governor of Massachusetts and 6th United States Secretary of Labor. He was a member of the Democratic Party and...
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    Alexander Acosta (category United States Secretaries of Labor)
    served as the 27th United States Secretary of Labor from 2017 to 2019. President Donald Trump nominated Acosta to be Labor Secretary on February 16, 2017...
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  • Thumbnail for Penal labor in the United States
    In the United States, penal labor is a multi-billion-dollar industry. Annually, incarcerated workers provide at least $9 billion in services to the prison...
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    The Cabinet of the United States is the principal official advisory body to the president of the United States. The Cabinet meets with the president in...
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  • H-2B visa (category United States visas by type)
    Labor Condition Application from the United States Secretary of Labor indicating that: (1) there are not sufficient U.S. workers who are capable of performing...
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    Elizabeth Dole (category United States Secretaries of Labor)
    administrations, including as U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Ronald Reagan from 1983 to 1987 and as U.S. Secretary of Labor under Reagan's successor...
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    Robert Reich (category United States Secretaries of Labor)
    the administrations of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton...
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