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The agency also administers child labor, minimum wage, and other labor laws. The Virginia Apprenticeship Council and the Safety and Health Codes Board are the advisory bodies formally constituted in the Code of Virginia which are affiliated with the agency. [7] The agency is currently led by Gary G. Pan, who has served as commissioner since ...
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. [4] [5] The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia.
Virginia planters developed the commodity crop of tobacco as their chief export. It was a labor-intensive crop, and demand for it in England and Europe led to an increase in the importation of African slaves in the colony. [41]
The secretary of labor is a member of the Virginia Governor's Cabinet. The current secretary, as of September 2024, is G. Bryan Slater . The office was established in 2021.
George Bryan Slater (born March 28, 1961) is an American political operative who has been tapped by Glenn Youngkin to serve as Virginia Secretary of Labor.A Republican, he managed Jim Gilmore's campaigns for Attorney General and Governor before serving as his Secretary of Administration from 1998 to 2001.
Indentured servitude in continental North America began in the Colony of Virginia in 1609. [1] Initially created as means of funding voyages for European workers to the New World, the institution dwindled over time as the labor force was replaced with enslaved Africans.
In 2023, the Labor Department found the national company Packers Sanitation Services Inc. had hired more than 100 children in 13 locations. The company paid a $1.5 million civil penalty.
The Virginia Magazine Jan. (1987) Ragsdale, Bruce A. "George Washington, the British tobacco trade, and economic opportunity in prerevolutionary Virginia". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 97.2 (1989): 132-162. online; Robert, Joseph C. The Story of Tobacco in America (UNC 1949) online good brief introduction to pre-1799 era pp 3-73.