Welcome to the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the state agency in Massachusetts that is responsible for overseeing the Commonwealths workforce development system, for protecting the health and safety of Massachusetts workers, for ensuring the efficient delivery of workers compensation services, for supervision of the unemployment insurance program, and for providing dispute resolution services in various arenas.

Our MISSION: To enhance the quality, diversity, and stability of the commonwealth's workforce by making available new opportunities and training for workers, job seekers, and employers, to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses, to provide temporary assistance when employment is interrupted, to ensure that businesses are informed of all employment laws impacting them and their employees, and to promote labor-management harmony.

• Massachusetts Division of Employment and Training [www.detma.org] oversees matters related to unemployment insurance and the Workforce Training Fund and has a listing of job openings throughout the state.
• The Commonwealth Corporation [www.commcorp.org] is a quasi-public organization responsible for administering and delivering a wide range of public and privately-funded initiatives designed to meet the labor needs of businesses; improve current and emerging workers' skills; foster career success through lifelong learning; and retain, sustain, improve and create job-generating businesses.
• The State Workforce Investment Board is a 65 member Board [URL] composed of a diverse group of business, government, youth, and community leaders whose mission is to advise the Governor and to help her develop a strategic plan for the commonwealth's workforce development system.
• Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents [www.state.ma.us/dia] is responsible for overseeing the Workers' Compensation system in Massachusetts.
• The mission of the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Safety [www.state.ma.us/dos] is to prevent occupational injuries, illnesses and fatalities throughout Massachusetts.
• Massachusetts Division of Apprentice Training [note: no web site] is responsible for promoting apprenticeship in the Commonwealth and certifying apprentice programs developed by employers.
• The Labor Relations Commission [www.state.ma.us/lrc] is a quasi-judicial agency whose mission is to ensure the prompt, peaceful, and fair resolution of labor disputes by enforcing the Commonwealth's labor laws.
• The Board of Conciliation and Arbitration [note: no web site] is charged with preventing or promptly settling labor disputes by offering dispute resolution services to both public and private sector employers and the labor organizations that represent their employees.
• The Joint Labor Management Committee [note: no web site] exercises broad oversight responsibility for collective bargaining negotiations between municipal police officers and firefighters and municipalities in the Commonwealth.

• Learn about the Workforce Investment Act Information from the federal government: www.usworkforce.org Information from the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Workforce Development: www.Massworkforce.org
• Learn about the Workforce Training Fund: www.detma.org/workforce
• Questions about the family medical leave act? Contact the United States Department of Labor at www.dol/gov/dol/esa/fmla.htm
• Questions about COBRA, ERISA and 401(k)s? Contact the United States Department of Labor at www.dol.gov
• Questions about private employee union disputes? Contact the National Labor Relations Board at www.nlrb.gov
• Learn about Massachusetts One Stop Career Centers: www.detma.org/jobseeker/centers/careercenters
• Contact the Attorney General's Office to learn about laws regulating the payment of wages, child labor, workplace safety and the prevailing wage, and the payment and lawful use of the unemployment and workers compensation insurance systems: www.ago.state.ma.us
• What posters are businesses required by state law to display to inform their workers of their rights and how can I get copies of those posters?

• Minimum Wage: Attorney General's Division of Fair Labor and Business Practices
  200 Portland Street Boston, MA 02114
  (617) 727-3465
  www.ago.state.ma.us/wkplcrts.pdf
• Unemployment Insurance: Division of Employment and Training
  19 Staniford Street Boston, MA 02114
  (617) 626-5400
  www.detma.org/forms/pdf/2553A_800.pdf
• Maternity Leave, Fair Employment Law, and Harassment: Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination
  One Ashburton Place, 6th Floor Boston, MA 02108
  (617) 727-3990
  www.state.ma.us/mcad
• Workers' Compensation Department of Industrial Accidents
  600 Washington Street, 7th Floor Boston, MA 02111
  (617) 727-4900
  www.state.ma.us/dia/DESKSCAN/Poster.pdf

• What posters are businesses required by federal law to display to inform their workers of their rights and how can I get copies of those posters?
  

United States Department of Labor
JFK Federal Building Boston, MA 02203
(617) 565-2072
www.dol.gov/dol/osbp/public/sbrefa/poster/main.htm