Promoting Labor Rights is Everyone’s Responsibility

Promoting Labor Rights is Everyone’s Responsibility:
This year’s Labor Rights Week theme, ‘Promoting Labor Rights is Everyone’s Responsibility,’ underscores the importance of partnerships between the Labor Department and other countries to educate migrant workers and their employers about U.S. labor laws.

Making America’s workplaces safe and fair for everyone is the hallmark of Labor Rights Week. We’re committed to ensuring that workers are safe on the job and paid what they’re owed by law. This means no one can be paid less than $7.25 an hour. It means overtime must be paid for each hour above 40 a week. And it means that employers must provide a safe workplace.
The department’s Wage and Hour Division, which enforces federal laws governing a minimum wage, overtime pay, child labor and the rights of migrant workers, and the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which is principally concerned with protecting workers from hazards on the job, are participating in Labor Rights Week events throughout the nation this week.
More information about Labor Department programs that protect migrant workers can be found at http://www.dol.gov/ilab/highlights/if-20120611.htm.

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Join the Conversation: #LaborDay2012 Twitter Chat

Labor Day Twitter Chat w/ @HildaSolisDOL

On Labor Day 2012 and every day, one of my top priorities is to help those looking for work get the training they need for good-paying jobs.
By 2020, 17 of the 30 fastest-growing occupations will require a postsecondary certificate or degree. That means that getting the skills employers want and need are critical to a successful career.
Tomorrow, Thursday, August 30 at 2 p.m. EDT I will host a live #LaborDay2012 Twitter chat. Whether you’re interested in how you can apply your skills to a new career or where to find job training programs in your neighborhood, I’m here to help.
Join the conversation by using the hashtag #LaborDay2012 or tweet questions in advance to @HildaSolisDOL. Don’t have a Twitter account? You can still participate by submitting questions to Connect@dol.gov by 10 a.m. EDT Thursday, August 30.
RSVP for the #LaborDay2012 chat and get updates about upcoming Twitter events.
Here at the Labor Department, we have many resources to help you along your career path. I look forward to sharing these invaluable tools with you!

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