Strategic Goal 1: Jobs and Compensation
Prepare workers for good jobs and ensure fair compensation Other Information:
The strategic goal to prepare workers for good jobs and ensure fair compensation is fundamental to accomplishing the Secretary’s
vision of good jobs for everyone. During an economic recovery, the Department’s responsibilities are two-fold: preparing workers
with the right skills for growing occupations and career pathways and protecting the wages of vulnerable workers. Vulnerable
workers are those who are at risk of exploitation at work, such as workers who are reluctant to complain when they are subject
to violations for fear of retaliation. The Department is focused on giving people the opportunity to gain the skills they
need to enter and be successful in the workplace. In a labor market where jobs are difficult to find and workers are grateful
for employment, wage violations are more likely to occur. The Department is increasing its vigilance in protecting the rights
and safety of workers by hiring additional enforcement personnel and reviewing and improving its regulatory efforts.
Stakeholder(s):
- Employment and Training Administration (ETA): The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) oversee programs
that prepare workers for good jobs at good wages.
- Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS): VETS also protects veterans’ reemployment rights.
- Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP): The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) ensures workers are recruited, hired, trained, promoted, terminated,
and compensated in a non-discriminatory manner by federal contractors. OFCCP helps workers in the federal contractor sector
by strengthening affirmative action and by combating discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin,
disability, or status as a covered veteran.
- Wage and Hour Division (WHD): The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) secures workers’ legally and hard-earned wages. WHD concentrates its compliance programs
on ensuring fair compensation for the most vulnerable workers – agricultural and young workers, workers in fissured industries,7
and individuals with disabilities – while continuing to protect the rights of all those who seek WHD’s assistance.
- Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB): The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) works to improve worker rights and livelihoods for vulnerable populations
of workers internationally.
- Women’s Bureau (WB): The Women’s Bureau (WB) is the only federal office that exclusively serves and promotes the interests of women in the workforce
by conducting research, projects, outreach, and evaluations on issues of importance to working women.
- Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP): The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) maintains the Department of Labor’s focus on the significant barriers to
employment faced by individuals with disabilities and provides national leadership by developing and influencing disability
employment-related policies and practices to increase the employment of people with disabilities.
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