Celebrating 40 years of service to Americas veterans

VETS at 40 and beyond

Our Veterans’ Employment and Training Service has been serving veterans, military spouses and transitioning service members for four decades. Recognizing the agency’s 40th anniversary this week, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary James D. Rodriguez reflected on the agency’s goals for the future.

Investing in infrastructure and America’s future

Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh joined Rep. Richard Neal at the Springfield, Massachusetts, Union Station to discuss how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will spur economic growth. The plan will create millions of jobs, strengthen the economy and provide a pathway to the middle class for U.S. workers. Read tweets from Secretary Walsh’s trip.

Grant seeks to improve DRC work conditions

This week we awarded a $3 million grant for the International Labour Organization to improve compliance with international labor standards in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Must reads from 2021

As 2021 draws to a close, we've rounded up seven of our top blog posts. See how the department supported America’s workers this past year.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

$1.2M recovered

We recovered $1.2 million in minimum wage and overtime wages for 202 workers at two Texas home care agencies.

More safety citations

Less than six months after iSpice received safety citations, an employee’s finger was amputated when a machine he was working on started up. The company faces new OSHA fines.

Fraud sentence

A Cincinnati businessman must serve 18 months in prison for stealing retirement funds and falsifying OSHA certificates.

Dollar General fined

OSHA has cited Dollar General, a company with a long history of safety violations, for hazards found at an Alabama location and proposed $321,827 in penalties.

Empowering workers worldwide

The Biden-Harris administration’s new M-POWER initiative will empower workers at home and abroad.

DATA SPOTLIGHT

Fatal workplace injuries dropped in 2020

There were 4,764 fatal workplace injuries in 2020 – the lowest number since 2013. The fatal work injury rate was 3.4 fatalities per 100,000 full-time workers, down from 3.5 in 2019. Read the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2020 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries to learn more.

WORKING FOR YOU

Going the extra mile to serve veterans

Meet Pete Pritchard, a Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialist in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and hear how he’s serving veterans during the pandemic.

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