Office of the Secretary of Labor careers
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A reluctant President Taft signed the act creating the Department of Labor on March 4, 1913, hours before Woodrow Wilson took office. Wilson's choice for the first Secretary was Congressman William B. Wilson, a founder and former Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, who wrote in his first annual report that the department was created "in the interest of the wage earners" but had to be administered in fairness to labor, business, and the public at large.
The Employees' Compensation Appeals Board sits inside this office, hearing appeals from determinations and awards under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act. The remainder is departmental operations: strategic planning, budget formulation, financial management, information technology, and human resources for the whole department.