Email: HiringVets@dol.gov Below is a listing of DOL’s major organizations and their missions.

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
BLS is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. Its mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate essential economic information to support public and private decision-making. As an independent statistical agency, BLS serves its diverse user communities by providing products and services that are objective, timely, accurate, and relevant. See the BLS list of primary hiring needs here.

Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)
The mission of EBSA is to assure the security of the retirement, health and other workplace related benefits of American workers and their families. We will accomplish this mission by developing effective regulations; assisting and educating workers, plan sponsors, fiduciaries and service providers; and vigorously enforcing the law. See the EBSA list of primary hiring needs here.

Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
ETA administers federal government job training and worker dislocation programs, federal grants to states for public employment service programs, and unemployment insurance benefits. These services are primarily provided through state and local workforce development systems. See the ETA list of primary hiring needs here.

Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
The purpose of MSHA is to prevent death, disease, and injury from mining and to promote safe and healthful workplaces for the Nation’s miners. See the MSHA list of primary hiring needs here.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
With the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Congress created OSHA to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. See the OSHA list of primary hiring needs here.

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management (OASAM)
OASAM provides the infrastructure and support that enables DOL to perform its mission. OASAM provides leadership and support for Departmental business operations and procurement; budget and finance; information technology; human resources and civil rights; security and emergency management; and strategic planning. See the OASAM list of primary hiring needs here.

Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO)
OCFO is responsible for the financial leadership of DOL and its primary duty is to uphold strong financial management and accountability while providing timely, accurate, and reliable financial information and enhancing internal control. See the OCFO list of primary hiring needs here.

Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)
The purpose of OFCCP is to enforce, for the benefit of job seekers and wage earners, the contractual promise of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity required of those who do business with the Federal government. See the OFCCP list of primary hiring needs here.

Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
OIG serves the American Worker and Taxpayer by conducting audits, investigations, and evaluations that result in improvements in the effectiveness, efficiency, and economy of Departmental programs and operations. We detect and prevent fraud and abuse in DOL programs and labor racketeering in the American workplace. We provide advice to the Secretary and the Congress on how to attain the highest possible program performance. See the OIG list of primary hiring needs here.

Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)
OLMS administers and enforces most provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). The LMRDA primarily promotes union democracy and financial integrity in private sector labor unions through standards for union officer elections and union trusteeships and safeguards for union assets. Additionally, the LMRDA promotes labor union and labor-management transparency through reporting and disclosure requirements for labor unions and their officials, employers, labor relations consultants, and surety companies. See the OLMS list of primary hiring needs here.

Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP)
OWCP administers four major disability compensation programs which provide wage replacement benefits, medical treatment, vocational rehabilitation and other benefits to certain workers or their dependents who experience work-related injury or occupational disease. See the OWCP list of primary hiring needs here.

Office of the Solicitor (SOL)
SOL’s mission is to meet the legal service demands of the entire Department. As the Secretary of Labor and other Department officials seek to accomplish the Department’s overall mission and to further specific priorities, SOL provides legal advice regarding how to achieve those goals. In doing so, SOL ensures that the Nation’s labor laws are forcefully and fairly applied to protect the Nation’s workers. See the SOL list of primary hiring needs here.

Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS)
VETS mission is to provide to eligible veterans with an effective job and job training counseling service program, employment placement service program, and job training placement service program for eligible veterans. See the VETS list of primary hiring needs here.

Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
WHD is responsible for enforcing some of our nation’s most comprehensive federal labor laws on topics, including the minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, child labor and special employment, family and medical leave, migrant workers, lie detector tests, worker protections in certain temporary worker programs, and the prevailing wages for government service and construction contracts. See the WHD list of primary hiring needs here.