The Employment Standards Administration (ESA) was the largest agency within the

U.S. Department of Labor 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, unem ...

. Its four subagencies enforced and administered laws governing legally mandated

wage A wage is payment made by an employer to an employee for work (human activity), work done in a specific period of time. Some examples of wage payments include wiktionary:compensatory, compensatory payments such as ''minimum wage'', ''prevailin ...

s and working conditions, including

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minimum wage A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor. List of countries by minimum wage, Most countries had introduced minimum wage legislation b ...

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, and family and medical leave; equal employment opportunity in businesses with federal contracts and subcontracts;

workers' compensation Workers' compensation or workers' comp is a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her emp ...

for certain employees injured on their jobs; internal union democracy, financial integrity, and union elections, which protect the rights of union members; and other laws and regulations governing employment standards and practices. It was created as the Wage and Labor Standards Administration in July 1967, and contained the Women's Bureau, Bureau of Labor Standards, Office of Federal Contract Compliance, Bureau of Employees' Compensation, and Employees' Compensation Appeals Board. In July 1969 the

Wage and Hour Division The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the United States Department of Labor is the Federal government of the United States, federal office responsible for enforcing federal labor laws. The Division was formed with the enactment of the Fair Labor St ...

became a part of it. In August 1970, it was renamed the Workplace Standards Administration, and in 1971, it was renamed the Employment Standards Administration. In May 1971, the Bureau of Labor Standards became the

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and was moved outside ESA. in January 1978, the Women's Bureau became independent within the Department of Labor. The ESA was eliminated on November 8, 2009. As of that date, ESA's four subagencies are now independent and report directly to the United States Secretary of Labor.

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Proposed and finalized federal regulations from the Employment Standards Administration
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