The Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) is a
Cabinet level agency under the
Governor of Massachusetts
The governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the chief executive officer of the government of Massachusetts. The governor is the head of the state cabinet and the commander-in-chief of the commonwealth's military forces.
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. EOLWD is responsible for enforcing the Commonwealth's labor laws and for providing workforce training to citizens. EOLWD is also responsible for administering Massachusetts' workers' compensation laws, enforcing laws governing collective bargaining, and for providing unemployment benefits to those in need.
The agency is under the supervision and control of the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, who is appointed by the Governor.
Leadership
The current Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development is Lauren Jones, who was appointed by Governor
Maura Healey
Maura Tracy Healey (born February 8, 1971) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the Massachusetts Attorney General since January 2015. She is the governor-elect of Massachusetts, having won the 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial electi ...
in January 2023.
Mission
The EOLWD missions is to enhance the quality, diversity and stability of Massachusetts' workforce by making available new opportunities and training, protecting the rights of workers, preventing workplace injuries and illnesses, ensuring that businesses are informed of all employment laws impacting them and their employees, providing temporary assistance when employment is interrupted, promoting labor-management partnerships and ensuring equal access to economic self-sufficiency and opportunity for all citizens of the Commonwealth.
Constituent departments
The Office is composed of several Constituent Departments, which are responsible for the administration of the Office's work. Each Department is headed by a Director, who is appointed by the Governor.
*Office of the Secretary
*Department of Labor Standards
*Department of Industrial Accidents
*Department of Labor Relations
*Department of Career Services
*Department of Unemployment Assistance
*Commonwealth Corporation
See also
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United States Department of Labor
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is responsible for the administration of federal laws governing occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemploy ...
External links
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Labor
Labour or labor may refer to:
* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the la ...
State departments of labor of the United States