History of U.S. Department of Labor
October 27, 2024 Outside it’s 56 ° Fahrenheit. In the news: Israel strikes military bases in Iran. The U.S. election is next Tuesday. Troy residents sho p for Halloween candy and costumes for Thursday. Today, the US has hundreds of labor laws in place to protect workers – but this wasn’t always the case. In 1913, the initial act of creating. The U.S. Department of Labor was signed by President William H. Taft. The people had been pushing for this department for the past few decades. At first, the department had divisions that consisted of the U.S. Conciliation Services, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Immigration, Bureau of Nationalization, and the Children’s Bureau. These divisions worked well to meet the Department of Labor’s purpose to “ foster, promote and develop the welfare of working people, to improve their working conditions, and to enhance their opportunities for profitable employment.". Then came the dawn of ...