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The commission was created by the Oklahoma Legislature in 1941. The commission is responsible for operating local workforce centers throughout the state. These centers provide testing, career counseling and placement services for job seekers; solicits job orders from employers; refers job seekers to jobs; and maintains a statewide online job listing databank.
A 2009 study of workers in the United States found that in 12 occupations more than half of surveyed workers reported being denied overtime pay: child care (90.2 percent denial), stock and office clerks (86 percent), home health care (82.7 percent), beauty/dry cleaning and general repair workers (81.9 percent), car wash workers and parking ...
In 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report stating that employees who reported illegal activities did not receive enough protection from retaliation by their employers. Based on data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration , only 21% of the 1800 whistleblower cases reviewed by the agency in 2007 had "a ...
The United States Department of Labor announced Tuesday that it had recovered $108,000 in wages owed to employees of popular Oklahoma-based diner chain Boom-A-Rang.
Menacing guards, workers held against their will and never paid — a Chinese immigrant describes harsh and violent conditions on an illegal pot farm. Escaping Oklahoma: A worker’s story from ...
St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church is in Del City, part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Secretary wrote checks to herself, stealing $1.2 million for vacations and SUV, feds say
The employer or the employee often does so for tax evasion or avoiding and violating other laws such as obtaining unemployment benefits while being employed. [1] The working contract is made without social security costs and does typically not provide health insurance , paid parental leave , paid vacation or pension funds .
Since its inception, the Oklahoma Department of Labor has functioned continuously for more than 100 years under the direction of 18 different Commissioners and 22 governors. Oklahoma's first Commissioner of Labor was Charles A. Daugherty, who served for two four-year terms from 1907 to 1915, under Governors C.N. Haskell and Lee Cruce.