Labor Department Employment Service

Regina Konle-Seidl is a social scientist and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Employment Research (IAB), Department of International Comparison and European Integration, in Nuremberg, Germany. Her research focuses on comparative analysis of labour market institutions and labour market reforms, activating labour market policy and modernisation of public employment services in Europe. She has published on these topics in a variety of journals. Recent publications include The Interaction of Labor Market Regulation and Labor Market Policies in Welfare State Reform (with Werner Eichhorst), published in 2006. 

Overtime is especially costly because after laboring eight hours a man s efficiency is less. He is naturally tired. Some employers have claimed that when a worker puts in two hours of overtime they get only about one hour of services. This means a company may pay for twelve hours of work at the base pay rate and effectively get only nine hours of work per day. This could increase the cost of construction labor by one-third or the total cost of constructing the plant by over 8%. The average construction costs index by state is given annually in the Plant Sites issue of Chemical Week and by the Federal Department of Labor. 

There were approximately 361,000 individuals employed in the fire service in the United States in 2006. About 293,000 were line firefighters, whereas the rest were supervisors or other support staff. The majority of these individuals, about nine out of ten according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), are employed by municipal or county fire departments serving communities of 25,000 people or more. Large cities are the largest employers, but many intermediatesized municipalities also employ career firefighters. 

Job Accommodation Network. A service of the Office of Disability Employment Policy of the U.S. Department of Labor... 

The Act regulates workplace safety at the Federal level. Responsibilities under the Act are distributed between the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services. The National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health was created to coca dinate activities between the 2 departments. The 12 members of this committee represent employees, employers, the public, and health and safety professionals. A 3-member Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, comprised of presidential appointees, is empowered to settle disputes arising from enforcement of the Act. 

The Departments of Labor and Justice and the Office of Personnel Management (then called the Civil Service Commission) issued UGESP along with the EEOC. (Employers Testing and Selection Procedures Fact Sheet, EEOC website [2011].)... 

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that about 30 percent of the professionals who specialize in a branch of statistics work for federal, state, and local government agencies, with the rest in private industry and academic research. Of the statisticians employed by the federal government, the highest numbers were found in the Departments of Commerce, j riculture, and Health and Human Services. 

Availability of Records. The employer shall ensure that all records required to be maintained shall be made available on reqnest to the assistant secretary of labor for Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or designated representatives for copying and examination. 

The Iowa State Plan applies to all public and private sector places of employment in the State with the exception of private sector maritime activities marine terminals longshoring federal government-owned, contractor-operated military/munitions facilities bridge construction projects spanning the Mississippi and Missomi Rivers between Iowa and other states federal government employers and employees and the United States Postal Service which are subject to Federal OSHA jurisdiction. The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration exercises jurisdiction with respect to field sanitation and temporary labor camps. See 29 CFR 1952.164. 

The North Carolina Department of Labor exercises jurisdiction over all private and public sector employers and employees within the State, with the exception of Federal employees, the United States Postal Service (USPS), private sector maritime activities, emplo3rment on Indian reservations, railroad employment, and enforcement on military bases, and the American National Red Cross, which are subject to Federal OSHA jurisdiction. See 29 CFR 1952.155. 

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