🏙️ Creating pathways to success

Good Jobs, Great Cities will create pathways to success

Earlier this year we partnered with the National League of Cities to launch the Good Jobs, Great Cities Academy. This week, Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su and other department representatives met with city leaders to discuss how to create good jobs in communities across the country.

Widespread job gains

The June jobs report showed continued growth across industries, with the economy adding another 209,000 jobs.

New initiative will help create and expand worker-owned businesses

To help create and promote worker-owned businesses, we’ve launched a new Employee Ownership Initiative. The program will empower workers through ownership arrangements and provide education and technical assistance.

Supporting employment, training and equity

We’ve awarded more than $11 million in grants this week, including:

Taking action against hazardous child labor

A national food manufacturing company must comply with federal child labor laws at all its production facilities and warehouses, a court has ruled. The action follows an investigation that found the company employed at least two 16- and 17-year-olds to operate hazardous meat-processing equipment.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Partnership power

A new video underscores how labor-management partnerships benefit both workers and employers, and why you should consider starting one.

Trench collapse uncovers hazards

Workers survived a trench collapse in Kansas, but OSHA investigators digging into the cause unearthed two willful and six serious safety violations.

Enforcement in the Delta

The Wage and Hour Division continues to fight for the rights of Mississippi’s underserved and underpaid farmworkers.

Keeping miners safe

MSHA found more than 100 significant and substantial violations in one year at a Louisiana mine, including caustic material spills and other hazards.

Beating the heat

The Mine Safety and Health Administration has tips for miners on how to beat the heat.

DATA SPOTLIGHT

Women’s labor force participation sets record high in June

In June, the labor force participation rate for women ages 25-54 increased to 77.8% — the highest since the series began in 1948.

TWEET OF THE WEEK

"Ever heard of the 'wet bulb temperature'? It measures both heat and humidity. The higher it is, the harder it is for sweat to evaporate. At a certain point, your body will not be able to cool itself down and you’ll experience heat illness or even die. https://bit.ly/3pGfoYn"
-@USDOL

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