United States Department of Labor

Ministry of Labor
United States Department of Labor

Set up:	March 4, 1913
Seat:	Frances Perkins Building , Washington, DC
Supervisory authority:	President of the United States
minister	Eugene Scalia
Deputy	Patrick Pizzella
Household:	$ 13.3 billion (2010)
Employees:	17,477 (2010)
Homepage:	dol.gov

The United States Department of Labor (English United States Department of Labor DOL ) is part of the Federal Government of the United States , whose responsibilities for workplace safety , wages , working hours , unemployment insurance , placement of job seekers and professional development . The Washington, DC-based department employed around 17,500 people in 2004.

The American Congress founded an office for labor as early as 1884, located under the Home Office . This employment office ( Bureau of Labor ) was expanded to become the Ministry of Labor, but did not receive the desired status and influence. On February 14, 1903, it went up in the Ministry of Trade and Labor . William Howard Taft , then President, signed the documents separating the two ministries on March 4, 1913 (the last day of his term in office) so that the Department of Labor could act as an independent agency.

Headquarters

Subordinated areas

Administrative Review Board (ARB)
Benefits Review Board (BRB)
Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Center for Faith-Based & Community Initiatives
Employees' Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB)
Employment Standards Administration (ESA)
Employment & Training Administration (ETA)
Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA)
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Pension & Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA)
Veterans' Employment & Training Service (VETS)
Women's Bureau (WB)

List of US labor secretaries

No.	Surname	Term of office	under US President
1	William Bauchop Wilson	March 6, 1913– March 4, 1921	Woodrow Wilson
2	James John Davis	March 5, 1921 - November 30, 1930	Warren G. Harding , Calvin Coolidge
3	William Nuckles Doak	December 9, 1930 - March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
4th	Frances Perkins	March 4, 1933 - June 30, 1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt , Harry S. Truman
5	Lewis Baxter threshold brook	July 1, 1945 - June 10, 1948	Harry S. Truman
6th	Maurice Joseph Tobin	August 13, 1948 - January 20, 1953	Harry S. Truman
7th	Martin Patrick Durkin	January 21 , 1953 - September 10, 1953	Dwight D. Eisenhower
8th	James Paul Mitchell	October 9, 1953 - January 20, 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
9	Arthur Joseph Goldberg	January 21, 1961 - September 20, 1962	John F. Kennedy
10	William Willard Wirtz	September 25, 1962 - January 20, 1969	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
11	George Pratt Shultz	January 22, 1969– July 1, 1970	Richard Nixon
12	James Day Hodgson	July 2, 1970– February 1, 1973	Richard Nixon
13	Peter Joseph Brennan	February 2, 1973– March 15, 1975	Gerald Ford
14th	John Thomas Dunlop	March 18, 1975 - January 31, 1976
15th	William Julian Usery	February 10, 1976 - January 20, 1977
16	Freddie Ray Marshall	January 27, 1977 - January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
17th	Raymond James Donovan	February 4, 1981 - March 15, 1985	Ronald Reagan
18th	William Emerson Brock III	April 29, 1985- October 31, 1987
19th	Ann Dore McLaughlin Korologos	December 17, 1987 - January 20, 1989
20th	Mary Elizabeth Hanford Dole	January 25, 1989 - November 23, 1990	George Bush
21st	Lynn Morley Martin	February 22, 1991 - January 20, 1993	George Bush
22nd	Robert Bernard Reich	January 22, 1993-10 January 1997	Bill Clinton
23	Alexis Margaret Herman	May 1, 1997 - January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton
24	Elaine Lan Chao	January 29, 2001– January 20, 2009	George W. Bush
25th	Hilda Lucia Solis	February 24, 2009 - January 22, 2013	Barack Obama
26th	Thomas Edward Perez	July 23, 2013–20. January 2017	Barack Obama
	Edward C. Hugler	January 20, 2017–28. April 2017 (provisional)	Donald Trump
27	Rene Alexander Acosta	April 28, 2017 - July 19, 2019
	Patrick Pizzella	July 20, 2019 - September 30, 2019 (provisional)
28	Eugene Scalia	since September 30, 2019