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The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) is a department of the government of the state of California which was initially created in 1927. [1] The department is currently part of the Cabinet-level California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, [2] and headquartered at the Elihu M. Harris State Office Building in Oakland.
The California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) is a cabinet-level agency of the government of California.The agency coordinates workforce programs by overseeing seven major departments dealing with benefit administration, enforcement of California labor laws, appellate functions related to employee benefits, workforce development, tax collection, economic development activities.
In 1929, this and other sprouting, independent licensing agencies would be absorbed into the Department of Vocational and Professional Standards along with a newly established Contractor's License Board. These boards were largely created by their regulated industries and members were composed of licensees until the 1960s.
California Refinery and Chemical Plant Worker Safety Act of 1990 added section 7872 and 7873 to the Labor Code. On September 25, 1992, AB 2601 was signed into law. [20] It protected gays and lesbians against employment discrimination. [21] California was the seventh state to add sexual orientation to laws barring job discrimination. [22]
OFCCP administers and enforces two equal employment opportunity laws: Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended, 38 U.S.C. § 4212 (VEVRAA). Together, these laws make it illegal for contractors and subcontractors doing business with the federal ...
The Central Contractor Registration (CCR) was the primary supplier database for the U.S. Federal government until July 30, 2012. In October 1993, President Bill Clinton issued a memorandum that required the Government to reform its acquisition processes. Subsequently, the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 was passed, requiring the ...
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.It is responsible for the administration of federal laws governing occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services, and occasionally, economic statistics.
The entities under SCSA were responsible for civil rights enforcement, licensing and consumer protection of more than 255 different professions, procurement of goods and services for state agencies, management and development of state real estate, oversight of two state employee pension funds, collecting state taxes, hiring of state employees ...